George, I find it odd that you, the first to call for peace during the earlier altercation (post #750), are now reacting with great hostility to a post that was nothing more than a thinly-veiled attack on you by slinging more mud and questioning the very motivations that you yourself use.
"You speak in a vacuum, and my interest in responding to you is nil." Then why respond? Are you just showing off your ability to type?
"What in god's mysterious cosmos are you trying to say?" To me at least, it wasn't an attempt at the profound but a simple attack toward you or a little opinion on modern education depending on how you want to view it. My mom is a fourth grade teacher at a Catholic school. After 30 years of teaching her pay has almost doubled. Yet she loves her work and wouldn't work anywhere else. It gives her a sense of fulfillment that she isn't religiously censored in what she teaches the kids. I'll make no comments on your teaching ability and behavior with your students because I don't know you that well, and I regret the attack on you and your profession but your response was equally inappropriate.
Regarding your opinion of haikus: "This is the type of tripe I disdain. Five-seven-five. As if it had a meaning." No one said it had a meaning. At least I don't think so. It's only a structure to hang your thoughts on. It provides a rhythm, if you want to go that direction. Does it bother you that it has no meaning? Personally, I'd despise life if everything had some deep, spiritual meaning. I need silliness. A little rest in the shallow end makes treading water in the deep end all the more enjoyable.
Anyway, there it is. I've spoken my piece. I leave tomorrow at about noon, so unless you respond before I go to bed tonight, I bid you and everyone here a good weekend. |
