Re: “ perennially strange Wintertime”
You are a teacher and therefore a professional.
I will assume that you would **never** use personal insult in your classroom especially since you are in a position of leadership and power over your students. This is especially true since students on the K-12 level are immature socially and incapable of defending themselves.
Wintertime, just stow it. Don't try to hide behind rules you set for me and not yourself. You threw a salvo at me and all teachers, claiming we were basically criminals for reporting to our jobs to try and educate children and help them in any other way we can. You can hardly expect to accuse teachers of criminality and not expect me to defend myself and the profession. We don't get up in the morning and drive to work thinking, "Oh, goody. I am proud to be a cog in the government criminal machine, whoopee!"
Your statements reek of ignorance and lack of analytical thinking. You are ridiculous. This is not the first time you've amply demonstrated that for all to see, either.