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MisterRepublican wrote: "I don't think the NEA and it's teachers deserve out thanks. They deserve condemnation"

I am thanking my teachers, including my 10th grade Algebra II teacher who made everyone laugh their way into enjoying quadratic equations and Pre-Calculus, or at least some of us. :)

He also discussed the sorry state of education saying that he believed that public education was set up completely wrong from the beginning, not dissimilar to John Taylor Gatto's writings.

Here's a thought about today's teachers and maybe it will work. If we thank them, they might try to live up to deserving the appreciation. Can't hurt for one day.

Thank you also to

• My 10th grade World History teacher who cut me entirely too much slack but I still learned,
• My 9th grade Latin teacher,
• My 8th - 12th grade English teachers,
• My Typing teacher,
• My Driver's Ed teacher,
• My Gym teachers,
• My Art teacher who sadly was dismissed after throwing an eraser at a student, narrowly missing him. I think if Mr. R.'s aim had been a bit better, and if he had actually hit the kid with the eraser, then he might have kept his job.

  Also thanks to Mr. Y, my Jr. High principal who scared kids with that big wooden paddle which I suspect he never used, but kept it handy and all of us safe.

  Thanks to Mr. F. who lifted all of our spirits up by being honest, straight and no nonsense.

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The real shame is that you are in all likelihood thanking people for doing a mediocre job that thanks to them you now don't know enough to identify as such.

There isn't a single institution that has done more to directly harm this country than the NEA. They have done their level best to take away our last weapon in the fight against tyranny,... the knowledge that it's being committed. They have consistently and substantially done all they could to subordinate the well being of our children for the sake of picking the taxpayers pockets. They have fought every attempt at making the education system accountable or competitive, and have embraced every ridiculous new fashion so long as it meant there was more slop in the trough or someone new to blame for their lack of performance.

I know there are good teachers out there and no one should be more angry about this than them, but they stand by silently, setting a typical example.

It's my personal opinion that any member of the NEA (or AFT in NY) should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

They aren't welcome in my home.