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Absolutely right. One of the reasons my profession has sunk into the depths is the constant social engineering and pop psychology I'm confronted with daily. My job is to teach, period. Like the Constitution, my job has certain enumerated duties, and everything else is left to other institutions or people.

On a related subject: If I'm caught talking about heterosexual topics with a female student, they can fire me, take my license, and take my pension. Yet I'm supposed to be openly aggressive about discussions of homosexual behevior with students who are, for the most part, disgusted with homosexuality or embarressed about it being discussed at all.

Here's my sarcasm for the day. They wanted to have a gay and lesbian student association. I said I'd be in favor of it as long as I could be the class advisor for the fellatio club.

[HoosierHawk]

My wife works in the local public schools and I certainly know what you mean. Most teachers are like you, just trying to do their job, frustrated by the PC crowd, which, BTW, believes that 25% of the boys are autistic or ADD.

The Special Ed department funding grows by 20% a year and they complain they're swamped.

Wonder how we ever made it out of school!

[Zack Nguyen]

If I'm caught talking about heterosexual topics with a female student, they can fire me, take my license, and take my pension. Yet I'm supposed to be openly aggressive about discussions of homosexual behevior with students who are, for the most part, disgusted with homosexuality or embarrassed about it being discussed at all.

That's awful. And people wonder why so many parents have opted out of public schools.