A mite oversimplified and bitter-sounding, this! I don't know any parent who wants their kids around every moment of the day. And I send my child to school because a) I simply don't know enough to educate him, and I'd rather employ someone who has more expertise and experience in any given subject to do it, and b) I have to earn a living myself, that's just the reality and is no reflection on the love I feel for my kid.Cunt wrote:Good point, mistermack. Most 'parents' gleefully send their kids to daycare, and school (is there a difference?) rather than educate them themselves. I think there are some folks who do want to raise kids, but most of them just want to make them and have others raise them.
Oh, then they accuse teachers of doing a shit job, or being overpaid.
I've seen shit teachers and fabulous teachers - as in any profession there are those who excel and those who barely skate along. But I know it's a tough, often thankless and hardly remunerative job that I could never do. Just being around kids, let alone in charge of dozens of them, and being expected to keep order, foster respect, AND teach them some of the facts and figures and ways of the world?
