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To: Metacomet who wrote (212669)	12/26/2012 10:30:46 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541313

I think teachers probably score high on protective instincts. I'm not sure you'd want to be around children, and teach them, if you didn't want to also protect them- and let's face it education is also protection. The people who dump on teachers, let's be clear, are mostly "conservatives". Why? Because they don't like the government- even though many of them are sucking off the government titty with medicare and ss- but for some reason, they don't want anyone else to have government help- even when it actually works. Republicans like to say education is "broken"- but it's not. American students do very well, if you look at the races that do very well. Asians and whites kick butt on tests when it comes to public education. We have a problem with minority students, but since Asians and whites are flourishing in our schools, their problems probably have more to do with society and parents, than with schools. But that's an uncomfortable answer. edtrust.org Our black and Hispanic students are making gains, but they definitely bring down our scores, even with those gains.