Usually it’s democrats and other useful idiots who find themselves the subject of my wrath and scorn here. Today is different. Today I’m upset with one of my favorite columnists, Ann Coulter.
One of the things that has often been the subject of her wrath and scorn over the years has been, and I think rightly so, the public school system. It’s broke. Kids who survive it are stupid compared to their world-wide peers.
But today, she went after not just the idiotic bureaucracy that is the Department of Education, she went after the teachers themselves in general terms that are altogether inaccurate and hurtful.
In her condemnation of BHO’s stimulus/rescue/spending/whatever-you-want-to-call-it plan in general and its planned outpouring of dollars to the DoE in particular, she described the teachers as “lethargic incompetents who kick off at 2 p.m. every day and get summers off. Actually, that's not fair: Some teachers spend long hours after school having sex with their students.”
My wife is a high school teacher in the toughest ghetto school in our area where she enjoys the distinction of being in what is by far the minority of the teaching staff. I know for a fact that most of the teachers in that school do in one way or another fit Ms. Coulter’s description. My wife works her butt off and earns every penny of her meager salary.
At least once a week, I hear complaints about her coworkers leaving early while she stays, even when her last block of the day is free. She works hard developing lesson plans that her department peers then use for their own classes. She cares about her students while others send them out to buy lunch.
Recently, my wife was awarded her National Board Certification. She worked weekends for months bettering herself and still found the time to help other (undeserving) teachers who were also going through the process.
In the Marine Corps we have a saying, “Every unit has its 10 percent.” Among every large group of people there will always be those few who disgrace themselves regularly. Unfortunately for teachers, their numbers are upside down. It’s the 10 percent who are the good ones; the ones whom the other 90 need to aspire to be.
So Ms. Coulter, do those outstanding human beings the well deserved courtesy of acknowledging them. Liberals by definition are wrong headed and thus easy for you to generalize. Teachers are not a group you can so wholly condemn.
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To my husband, I am in ahhh of your words and your ability to set the record straight. Thank you for being there for me when sometimes it was difficult to make my way out of bed knowing I was headed for a day of battle, that I truly thought I could never win. But after 4 years of hard work at my current school, I can honestly say, I may have won a few here and there. You recognize how hard I work, how hard many of us work. Thank you for taking the time to write this in support of the teachers who strive to make our youth ready for their futures and who believe that they can make a difference, if only for just a few, they matter. I am lucky to have your understanding and love. Thank you for your wise, kind, and truthful voice. I love you.
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