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To: LindyBill who wrote (157745)	2/15/2006 11:36:26 AM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 793739

I've seen a few bad teachers, but the following excerpt applies to most of the ones I've known. Don't get me wrong -- not all public school teachers are bad. Many are talented and passionate, even heroic. Many turn down better-paying jobs because they want to help kids learn. But working hard for public-school students has to be its own reward, because a lazy teacher is paid just as much as a good one -- more if he has seniority. My sister teaches sixth grade. Some years she gets a class that is so roudy and disinterested that she wants to quit. The parents are no help. Several years ago a kid threatened to kill her and was arrested the next day on the street with a gun. This was in the town where I grew up, not in some metropolis.