[RavenATB]

"Like you, I don't understand the need to rip on teaching, as a profession, if you're unhappy with certain teachers out there."

As a former teacher, let me tell you why I think it's so common for teachers to get "ripped" by taxpayers...

Teachers and their union...as empowered by the funding and support of those teachers...protect and insulate corrupt, incompetent, and sometimes criminal teachers from consequence. As long as teachers stand by and allow their union to protect the worst in the group, all teachers will be lumped together in scorn, and rightfully so.

If teachers were, truly "professionals," they would insist on accountability, rather than fighting it at every turn.

That's just not happening. In fact, there is no other profession I've ever known of where the members do so much to protect the worst among their ranks.
Teachers...including "good" teachers...have created this situation for themselves.

[esoxmagnum]

You've hit the nail on the head with that post, Thanks.