puff piece, if not pure propaganda bordering on hyperbole. People and students respect teachers as a whole, what they do not respect and I bet many in the prof

puff piece, if not pure propaganda bordering on hyperbole. People and students respect teachers as a whole, what they do not respect and I bet many in the profession do as well is the inability to remove those who are not good teachers. It is not a position one walks into without many upon many stories about what your really getting into. My Aunt retired from the trade, her aggravations in order that I remember are, Administrative people(usually political appointees), other teachers, and parents. There were a few others but mostly the tripe coming down from non teachers within the system seemed to be what we heard of. That and the personal money she spent to have supplies because it was more important to blow money on marble floors than supplied, or having someone's wife/kid/friend in some advisement position that did nothing but occupy space. Guess what, I can say the same of some other service professions, having a neighbor who does night shifts as a nurse and hearing the horror stories of what she puts up with is enough to let me know some jobs come with extra mental if not physical stress. I think in the end we are all more than willing to heap accolades on good teachers. Its a system where the kids aren't first that irritates