[wintertime]

I'm an engineer, and I'd have a hard time believing that the work I do doesn't constitute a "profession."

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Would you, or your fellow engineers, deliberately employ faulty construction or engineering techniques that you KNEW could, or would, result in injury? Would you, or your fellow engineers, work for a company or firm that demanded that you use faulty engineering?

I doubt it. Engineers do not do this. They have too much professional pride.

Yet....teachers, every day, in this nation go to government schools that demand that they use teaching and discipline methods that are faulty and HURT children. They COOPERATE in this!

Sorry! If engineers wouldn't do this, then teachers shouldn't. If we would blame an engineer, then we should definitely BLAME teachers.

[SoftballMominVA]

Would you, or your fellow engineers, deliberately employ faulty construction or engineering techniques that you KNEW could, or would, result in injury? Would you, or your fellow engineers, work for a company or firm that demanded that you use faulty engineering?

This happens all the time. It's called the lowest bidder on the project.