Dear Mr. Ward, I have just finished reading your article that seems so highly critical of teachers, that I get the impression that you had a really terrible experience with a teacher or teachers, and have never fully recovered. Mr. Ward was sexually abused by a teacher in his adolescent years. You're getting weird. For the record, I am neither a drug user nor an abuse victim.
Victimization does seem to be in vogue at the school district, however.
Scratch one of these pedagogues and a veritable hemorrhage ensues. Gasoline prices are beyond reason. I defy you to find any other professional who has a college degree who is unable to go to the bathroom when nature calls. As terrible as you think we are, there is probably no other profession that works as hard, deals with as much, and gets paid as little. But these few, sad teachers aren't the only ones speaking with forked tongues.