[MarDav]

“We need a fighter and a winner on the inside.”

Totally agree. That’s why I’ve stuck with teaching in high school despite the seemingly hopeless cause that it is and the occasional ridicule from some, including a few at FR who feel that teaching in public school is a lost battle which requires constant compromise and sleeping with the enemy.

If we are ever to begin to turn the cultural “thing” around, it will only happen when we engage the enemy on his turf.

[FES0844]

Thank you for hanging in there. Our kids need teachers like you.

[Auntie Mame]

Thank you Mar, for your service and foro staying in the trenches. Our children need you.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

MarDav,

I loved reading Curtis Lemay's bio and I especially loved the title, The Life and Wars of General Curtis Lemay. That's the way I feel and it seems you do as well. Once I get to the point (in a few more years), where I don't need to earn more big bucks to maintain my lifestyle, I've thought about leaving the programming career, get a certificate for teaching and try to get a job as a sub teacher.

I want to be able to impact the next generation and let them know about the greatest country in the world and how the left is trying to bring it to it's knees. I work with a youth group now, but I would like to impact even more young lives at some point.

[arthurus]

My wife retired last year from public school teaching learning disabled first and second graders. She loved it in part because the administrations and school boards treated the specialty as an inconvenient stepchild that they just did not want to pay attention to. She was able to teach phonics and real arithmetic to these kids and the brighter among them were way ahead of their normal classmates when they got “mainstreamed” in second or third grade. The low IQ kids often came out of her classes way ahead of where they were supposed to be. She has said that she could not have done that as a “mainstream” teacher with heavy oversight for PC and the ignorance producing imposed fad systems of reading and arithmetic.

[huldah1776]

You are right and that is how the commies got so far.

[goodnesswins]

Kudos to you...need so many more like you, AND need school boards full of people like you, too.

[GenXteacher]

+1