Self-aggrandizing — it’s what teachers are best at. They are brave. They are important. They are proud. They are awesome. They are special. They build the future. They are the most important workers in America. Just ask them.
Self-aggrandizement is the term I use as well. That and their constant demand for more and better compensation for less and worse education - preaching to the students how underpaid they were.
These are largely mediocre people holding our kids hostage.
This last year has been quite the education on the nature of the Teachers Union.
Pay raise for what? They have been slacking on the job for a year and a half in many venues.
Oh, there are hard-working and highly dedicated teachers out there, always have been, But the profession has also attracted a lot of ideologues, those who were looking for an “easy” college credit and cheap diploma, and those who just had some underlying sadistic streak that want of manipulate children, those with skulls full of mush.
The child-tamers and the messianic indoctrination specialists are a real damaging factor in the upbringing of our youth, and the “easy path” ones are producing lasting harm to children by turning off all desire to even attempt to learn, living lives out in a vacuum.
We need teachers, and always will, but their worth should be determined by merit, not seniority. And merit may be a very difficult thing to access, especially by school boards that “go along to get along”.
You can put 10% of the lot into a group being worth a tinkers damn. The rest are arrogant, lazy leftist who loath kids and despise parental participation. They don’t want the parents to find out what they are doing to their kids.
GenX is going to be the last generation that actually learned anything in the public education system of America.
If we survive as a free country this time periods history will damn the media and public school teachers for the misery they caused upon this country,