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Message: [QUOTE="husky429, post: 4789273, member: 6696"] I'm sure you thought this was clever, but it's not. I like to pick fights on this place sometimes because it's funny and I'm a fan(atic) in every sense of the word, but people speaking about teachers like this pisses me off. 1) Teaching is exceptionally difficult, now much more so than "in your day" despite making pennies on the dollar compared to others with similar education and skillsets. I've worked in 2 high schools and 2 middle schools as a teacher, and am now a district employee in a city going around to help teachers turn around the most challenging classrooms (basically... it's complicated). There are no misfits working in our schools, and I work in one of the lowest-performing districts in the state--we don't exactly have cream-of-the-crop teachers. Our teachers are hard-working, smart, and care a hell of a lot about their kids across the board. I would go ahead and say our WORST teachers are those who just may have been around during "you day." I've only ever had teachers show a lack of empathy, cruelty to students, or just plain not try when they are 50+ and checked out. 2) There is nothing inherently wrong or shameful about working at Starbucks. It is not for people who are "mentally ill misfits." My wife has a law degree from a top school in the country, a master's from UConn, a PhD from an ivy, has solo-authored about a billion papers and has a book coming out next year. She worked at Starbucks during law school. Is she a mentally ill misfit? The speech that MLK Jr. gave just before he was assassinated wasn't about race specifically. It was about his view that "[URL='https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/02/all-labor-has-dignity-martin-luther-king-jrs-fight-for-economic-justice/71423/']all labor has dignity[/URL]"--I encourage you to read it and maybe stop being such a friggen jabroni in the future. [/QUOTE]

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