Respect the Teachers. They are qualified experts on child education. They have the best intentions for the students in mind. As a parent who has had to deal wi

Respect the Teachers. They are qualified experts on child education. They have the best intentions for the students in mind. As a parent who has had to deal with these "experts" for years, I can't help rolling my eyes at this nonsense. Respect the teachers? I certainly respect many individual teachers, some of whom are wonderful, but this is a demand that we respect the special expertise of a group that pays politicians enormous sums of money to block any attempt at evaluating that expertise. I have respect for groups of experts that vigorously weed out all but the top performers from their own ranks and willingly submit themselves to external competition to demonstrate their expertise, not those whose policy instead is to pay lawmakers to prevent anyone from removing the poor performers and to outlaw competitive threats to their monopoly.