[doug from upland]

I was a K-8 teacher my first five years out of college (and later at the college level for 10). As a teacher, I would not have let this happen, no matter what a principal told me to do.

[chimera]

I am a teacher at a university and everything I do in class is focused on learning the subject. Now, granted, it is engineering, and that by nature keeps you pretty focused, but still, even in secondary and grade school, we have to get away from this touchy-feely “inspirational” and “motivational” stuff, and back to helping students learn. Personal pride, parental approval, and self-initiated desire to achieve and be self-reliant were all the inspiration and motivation I needed, and I don't think of myself as all that exceptional or special. If a dummy like me can do it, most everyone should be able to do it.