Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for September 13, 2012
September 12, 2012
September 14, 2012
Transcript:
As a teacher, I'm also required to be nurse, counselor, fight referee, babysitter, etiquette enforcer and behavioral therapist. After all that, I spend what's left of the school day teaching math, science, English and history. That's a lot to squeeze into five minutes.
WTF?
As a former teacher, we can agree on the “alleged parents” bit. Parents were the biggest reason I got out of teaching a decade ago.
As for the rest… the “far right” (and please define that term—does it mean everyone who did not vote Democrat in the last or previous elections?) I doubt had little effect on our kids. Granted, a lot of recent right-wing ideas haven’t been beneficial… Because they were pre-sabotaged by left-wing ideology from the get-go.
Another good reason to get out of teaching…