re: Please remember to pray for the teachers.

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Everyone knows at least 1 teacher who bitch es about their job and post about "vacation" constantly. That 1 teacher represents the whole of the profession, even though every profession has an individual that all they do is bitch and moan.

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This^

I have been in three careers for more than 10 years each and teachers are no more prone to griping than any other profession. I worked at NASA in Houston, TX on all the manned space programs the nation has funded. There is not a more intelligent, dedicated, and responsible group of people in the world than were found there then - and the gripe sessions were momentous. It was glorious.

Yet when teachers do similar gripes, people outside the profession seem to jump on it like they had witnessed a child molestation. It must make them feel better about their own miserable lives to be able to dump on someone else all the time.

I have seen good engineers and bad engineers, good photographers and bad photographers, good teachers and bad teachers. In just about similar proportions.

The problem is in the state administration of the education process. That is where all the bullshite arises. And that is what drives good teachers from the field and leaves it more prone to accept cookie-cutter non-thinkers for the job.

In aerospace, the administration was coldly dedicated to getting a good product - in teaching, administration is solely dedicated to avoiding lawsuits.