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To: mistermj who wrote (211888)	1/6/2007 11:34:02 AM
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I spent 16 years in school and never remember that happening. Surely it must have -- there must have been gastrointestinal or bladder emergencies -- but the suggestions you make illustrate the problem. How often could one do that? It's an emergency deal -- an imposition -- to call the principal, ask another teacher (who may or may not be your pal, and may be in the middle of giving a test, or may have a class he/she doesn't like to leave unattended, or may be under pressure to get other things taken care of during that "off" hour). Your list is interesting. You're quite angry at the schools, and included in your anger seem to be sex education, guidance counselors, speech and special needs education, a school psychologist (all of whom, apparently, have free hours known to the urgency-afflicted teacher), and interns helping the first graders. The policeman (we don't have those at our local public schools, though the Hebrew Day School has found hiring a private security service advisable) appears on your list as a more generalized spleen-venting item, since I assume that when security is needed, you don't blame that on the teachers. Oh wait, you are sarcastic about "the PTA mom that helps children read because the schools forgot how to teach it," too. This degree of spleen suggests that possibly you do blame teachers even for the kinds of social breakdown that make some schools unsafe. Incidentally, your English (and logic; but that may be explained by agenda rather than incapacity) deficits indicate that there are problems in our educational system more significant than any we've discussed. And the question in my mind is, did you try hard, academically, when you were in school? Did you ask teachers for extra help and fail to get it? Is it your teachers' fault? Or could it be yours, or your parents'? Is it the fault of there being, then, too few interns to help? too few PTA moms? ... Whose fault is it? Is it 'society's' fault? And is this unfortunate situation connected with your denying the obvious? -- that teachers have a problem if they feel an urgent need to go to the toilet, and if it happens more than extremely infrequently, it's a serious and embarrassing problem.