[TheForge] Re: OT now teaching

[Andrew Vida]

Leslie Herbert Lorenz wrote:
> I know a teacher who signs off his e-mails with the following:
> 
> Teaching is not rocket science it is much much harder.
> 
> I know his is right.

	If you're doing the job properly, I would have to agree.  I tried it 
both ways.  Sitting and reading the paper, letting the little darlings 
murder each other with galleys and composing sticks didn't last long. 
Between the boredom and guilt I just could not stand it for more than a 
day or so.

	Doing it the right way will wear your ass out quickly.  Teaching is a 
very difficult job indeed.  The mediocre teachers have the best world... 
work comparatively little, collect paycheck, get along.  The really good 
teachers are burnt weenie sandwiches after only a few years, then often 
turn bitter, which is so very understandable given the horrid 
environment most have to work in where top performance and results are 
ridiculed rather than rewarded.  Truly we live on planet Bizarro.

	-andy