[wintertime]

So what you claim to be abuse, is now merely bad form?

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Do you do this to your students? Do you exaggerate a consequence in an effort to emotionally manipulate? I surely hope not.

Children are emotionally and socially too immature to manage a manipulative adult. This is especially true, when the adult has power over their lives and futures, as do teachers. If, as you say, you teach special education, then they are even more vulnerable.

[SoftballMominVA]

In this post alone, you imply that I may be lying about what I teach, that I manipulate children, and that I exaggerate consequences.

Do you do this in real life? Do you imply that other conservatives are liars and demand proof, but offer none of your own? Do you attack the conservative children of others? Do you walk up to people on the street and tell them that they are feeding their children poison if they send them to a public school? Do you tell conservative children that their parents wasted their lives if they sent them to a public school? Do you take statements and twist them to something obviously unintended and then attack them with it? Do you degrade people's chosen profession and belittle it? Do you do all of this to people on the same side of the political spectrum therefore alienating even those that would normally support you? These are all statements that you have made here - to conservatives. We supporters of FreeRepublic have many commonalities in our beliefs. Obviously we differ in some areas, but one thing we shouldn't do is to eat our own over smaller issues. You attack, then counter-attack, then call people names, imply they are lying, accuse them of using liberal debating techniques - all this to fellow conservatives.

All of this is unneccesary. Debating issues can happen without mudslinging.