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By your own admission, you have never taught anyone anything. You presume to denigrate my knowledge and experience when you have none. Like many pie in the sky liberals, you talk about your father or some hypothetical people.

I have taught all over the country in many settings from 7-college, urban rural, elite and alternative schools. Twice I was a principal. Unlike you, I did not get stuck in a routine sales job when I changed careers but was promoted 9 times in five years and went on to own and manage a sales company.

You probably celebrate dissent against the war and want to supress criticism of education. You are so progressive that you defend the status quo or want us to go back to the 19th century. But your transparent sham doesn't fool me.

By your own admission, you have never taught anyone anything

Do you think I don't teach everyday? Because I do.

Like many pie in the sky liberals, you talk about your father or some hypothetical people.

Of course living with someone for the first 18 years of my life, substituting for my father and my mother (taught for 31 years), of course I have no idea of what teachers go through. I must rely on your experience of hopping around the country

Twice I was a principal.

LOL, well there you go. You want to meet the most useless person in a school? Go to the principal's office. Administration from principal up are overpaid bureaucrats

Unlike you, I did not get stuck in a routine sales job when I changed careers but was promoted 9 times in five years and went on to own and manage a sales company.

Hmmmm....didn't say I was 'stuck' in anything. Matter of fact I said the competition disappeared. Why? Because I was promoted regularly. You seem caught up with the number of times you've done something. Have I been promoted 9 times? Looking back over 15 years, yes I have. Actually more. Do I crow about it as if it will make my case more believable though?

You probably celebrate dissent against the war and want to supress criticism of education. You are so progressive that you defend the status quo or want us to go back to the 19th century.

If I am progressive, why would I want a return to the 19th century? For the record, I don't support taxation for public education. Like all other government services, it should be a user based fee. If you have kids, you pay for it, but don't make me. What I do disagree with from so many 'conservatives' is the automatic gainsaying of anti-NEA mantras that blindly lump all teachers into one group as if they're all useless.

I'm sorry you couldn't handle a teaching job and had to revert to sales (a much easier job). But don't take it out on teachers because you couldn't make the grade.