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Lovely, Michael. You probably also have baby pictures and stories about her saved up to share with future boyfriends, etc.?
Can you sue teachers for malpractice?
People get VERY emotional about this. It’s got the same feel as talking about the global warming fraud.
Poor Natalie Lileks. Those pictures and stories have been up on Teh Webz since she was a toddler.
Our public schools are doing a wonderful job!
I was interested enough to watch, annoyed that I had to.
I hope she gave permission for the post in the end.
I’ve seen a lot of posts on Facebook on this topic. It is emotional. So emotional that there have been threats against the FCC Chairman’s family, including his kids. People have actually posted his kid’s names on the net.
Dang socialists corrupting our kids’ minds. As if there’s a “free” lunch out there to be had…
I hope you straightened her out. And you still have her in public schools because, why..?
Regretfully, no. Unlike medical doctors or lawyers, teaching is not a true profession. There is no legally recognized standard of ethics established by a professional association and accepted by society to hold them accountable against.
The teacher’s unions (NEA and AFT) spend a great deal of their time and effort working to insure that teaching remain a skilled trade rather than a true profession. It is one reason that the unions fight individual teacher accountability so vehemently. Here in the State of Washington, I can be held individually legally liable only for failing to maintain a safe environment for my students, or for not keeping accurate attendance records. Otherwise, all other responsibility for failures to teach (of the teaching of false information, such as “net neutrality”) resides with the school district and the state.
Speaking as a current public school teacher with decades of classroom experience, it pains me to admit that teaching is no closer to being a true profession in 2017 than it was in 1989, when I started in this trade.
(Pragmatically speaking, suing an individual teacher would be a waste of time; most have no financial assets worth pursuing for damages.)
I don’t have a problem with that. When I look at the recognized professions, (e.g. accountants (CPA), lawyers, medical doctors, etc) I find that their organizations protect their members more than protect the public from bad actors. They also provide gatekeeping to restrict entry into their respective professions.
Professionalizing the teaching craft as you advocate, would make them even more of a protected class and less accountable to the public not more.
When I was in my early years of college, someone gave me a book that talked about professions. The author was adamant that certain occupations were held by “professionals” because they held a public trust, required special skills, etc. He was especially focused on military officers being labeled as “professionals.”
His logic was pretty good, but in the end he just sounded petulant that his occupation should have a social status similar to that of doctors and lawyers. I ended the book concluding that arguing over whether someone is a professional or not is a fools game because in the end it’s just a name. A man will be the man he is, and will be respected for his integrity or not, regardless of his label.
Dude! She asked you not to post! I can tell you from talking to my kids that is the prevailing sentiment. Also among adults, if twitter is to be believed…
I have read very conservative Republican friends who think its horrible to get rid of net neutrality. They don’t understand why someone might need to pay extra to get to the front of the line in the queue.
A father has every right to embaress his daughter (within limits of course). But not on social media.
Sadly, it’s not just public schools. I teach at a Catholic school and one teacher had kids all riled up about net neutrality. The kiddos then invaded my room, hair on fire, asking me all sorts of questions and sure that the Internet as we know it would end. Immediately.
So, calmly, I took them through all of the “The World Will End” scenarios I could come up with off the top of my head and how each of them didn’t happen. 70’s Ice Age. Population Bomb. Y2k. Glow-Ball Warming/Climate Change. And then warned them about following those who want to get them all riled up and hysterical about…something-or-other-and-the-world-is-gonna-end. Those are some dangerous people. Of all the lessons this year, I hope that’s in the Top 5 of the ones that stick.
You should demand a refund on your tuition.
I have always understood that classically, the meaning of “profession” referred a very small number of occupations that: A) required a special skill or fund of knowledge possessed by only a few, coupled with: B) an internally-derived and internally-enforced set of ethical principles that governed the behavior of practitioners, and that chief among these principles was the fiduciary requirement to always place the interests of the individual client above the interests of the practitioner him/herself, and also above the interests of society at large.
By this definition, the classical professions turned out to be doctors, lawyers and clergy. (Some have argued that prostitution should also qualify under the classic definition. I, of course, would have no way of knowing about this.)
This classic conception of “profession” has been corrupted in recent years by two things. First, the word has come to refer ONLY to the possession of a marketable skill set, so that, for instance, hairdressers, news readers, and fortune tellers now qualify. (Indeed, just about the only people who do not qualify are those who graduate with a degree in “studies.”)
Second, some former professions have dropped any pretense to the fiduciary standard. The medical profession, for instance, now gives equal weight to the standard of “social justice,” which, by definition, conflicts with the needs of individual patients.
The bottom line is that, as a physician, I now have no grounds whatsoever to object if teachers, carpenters, or hockey players insist on being called professionals. Welcome to the club.