You have no guarantee that teachers will succeed. But I guarantee you that if I fail so will our Republic. This country will not survive without an educated electorate. As Benjamin Franklin pointed out, we were given a democratic republic, the question is whether we can keep it.
If you are fool enough to value your trash collectors over your teachers then you don't deserve this country or your freedom, and you are guaranteed to lose both. You should hang your head in shame for what you have written. And so should others posting here.
You gripe about Liberal teachers corrupting your children and then you insult the rest of us as well. There are fewer and fewer Conservatives in education and fools like you wonder why.
I teach because I enjoy it, and because I'm good at it, and because what I do matters. I will be one of the last Conservative professors that many of our students see... ever. I would think that people on Free Republic would support the few like-minded people that are left in the universities. Instead you and others like you post garbage that any respectable person would be ashamed of.
As Jesus said, it is not what goes in a person's mouth that defiles them... it is what comes out of a person's mouth. I have skills that would pay me several times what I make as a teacher. If I did this job strictly for the pay I would be as big a damned fool as you and many other posters are.
It's not the worst pay I've ever made. When I was eighteen I picked up a rifle and went to the other side of the world for a whopping $99 a month. Ironically, when I returned home I got treated exactly the same way that I get treated as a teacher in some of these Free Republic threads. I have to deal with know nothing liberals at work every day. I have to make sure that my students know that there is a real world out there and not just the fantasy world created by liberals, slackers, and arrogant Hollywood elites.
Whether you like it or not, whether you have guts and intelligence to admit it or not, I'm standing between you and the whirlwind the same way I did when I was an eighteen year old soldier a long time ago.
Tomorrow, when the trash man comes, you should be sitting out on the curb with all the other garbage. I guarantee you'll end up where you belong.
I never knew that teachers and garbage men had so much in common.
But this is not what this thread is about. To make a small connection I will say that there are both garbage men and teacher that exhibit Diva like qualities. Now back to Mariah Carey There are worst things to be than a Diva. If she dosen't throw a phone at her maid or get kicked off an international flight she will seldom make the news.