[rescue] public schools

[Jeffrey Sharp]

On Monday, July 8, 2002, Chris Hedemark wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 00:03, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
>
>> Anyway, throughout elementary and high school, I came into contact with
>> two types of teachers:
>>   [snip]
>>   2) Genuine academicians who chose a path in high school education
>>      either to relax from more stressful positions they enjoyed earlier
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                  
Ha! Anyone who thinks that teaching in the US public school system is a job
where you can *relax* is just, well, living in another world. Teaching is
one of the most *stressful* jobs on the planet. It's hell.

I've never been a teacher, but I am the son of two of them, so I was privy
to everything for the first 18 years of my life: crazy politics, kids who
don't care abusing the system, kids who do care being screwed by the system,
hours and days of unpaid overtime (ball games, building floats, tutoring,
etc.), incompetent and hateful administration, idiotic and uncaring parents,
day-to-day emotional abuse by the students, working in the state with the
second-lowest average teacher income... I know of several teachers whose
lives have probably been saved by their Prozac prescription.

-- 
Jeffrey Sharp

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