Education

I am hearing what heros the teachers in Newtown are.  I agree.  But then I think all teachers are heros. And yet we just saw Wisconsin bashing teacher for being lazy, overpaid, worthless.  Can't have it both ways.  My take: Teaching should be the highest paid profession in the country.  We take our most valuable asset, our future, and give them to the lowest paid, most overworked, under appreciated professionals in the country.  We give  those professionals  a class of high intelligent, mediocre, non-english speaking, and special ed student all lumped into one classroom and expect them to keep the students with higher intelligence interested and fully educate them, to teach to the level of the mediocre, and find someway of teaching those who do not speak English and also teach the special ed students.  And they are to do all this without any cooperation from the parents, without disciplining the students, making sure no student's feelings are hurt,  They are supposed to do this on a mediocre salary, buy their own school supplies, take work home, put up with parents trashing them.  I never ceases to amaze me that we find people to do this job of teaching and like it.  This is one screwed up country.