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The author is slow, and a lawyer. While I was reading the first page, I was screaming, your kid is smart, thus "IT MATTERS TO YOUR KID'S TEACHERS". By the sec

The author is slow, and a lawyer. While I was reading the first page, I was screaming, your kid is smart, thus "IT MATTERS TO YOUR KID'S TEACHERS". By the second page the author somehow figures it out after posting on Facebook and getting tons of comments from friends that explain it to her in excruciating detail. I would not hire this person as a lawyer ever. I have no idea why she wrote this article.

jonalmeida 13y ago
I do this as well while writing a post about my experiences so that other can follow my train of thought and my actions. Personally, I don't think on such a linear level, and I'm sure many others don't as well, but when you write about such events, (in other to not look like a crazy lunatic) you have to write it as a story.
nknighthb 13y ago
Where did you come by a connection between "lawyer" and "middle school educational policy"? If she were a lawyer for a middle school, you might have a point, but she's not.
- jcampbell1 13y ago
  Good laywers can read between the lines. That is their job. She did not stop and think "Why does this principle care? Why is she making this call? What are the motivations?" Would not hire as a lawyer.
  - nknighthb 13y ago
    I don't typically stop and think about the motivation of administrative drones, either. I would hope no lawyer I hired would waste time in such a manner unless it was actually relevant to the matter I hired them for. I, too, would not hire her as a lawyer, but that's because she isn't one anymore. She's been an instructor and professor for more than a decade, not a practicing attorney.
    - sanderjd 13y ago
      Remaining willfully ignorant by dismissing of activities and occupations you have judged negatively without having any knowledge of what they entail is no way to go through life.
      - nknighthb 13y ago
        If I stopped to investigate the motivations of every bureaucrat who tried to discourage me from exercising my rights and outright lied about their motivations in the process, I'd really never have time for anything else. What's worth defending here?
        sanderjd 13y ago
        It's not for them, it's for you. Making it a point to understand those who cross your path in life makes you a better person. And it doesn't take all that much time, just a little empathy. It's ok to dislike things and people, but I really hate the "I don't know anything about it, I don't want to know anything about it, and I strongly dislike it" attitude that I thought your comment exhibited.
  - mcv 13y ago
    I suspect she was operating in parent-mode rather than lawyer-mode at the time. You don't have to be your job at all times.

jonalmeida 13y ago

I do this as well while writing a post about my experiences so that other can follow my train of thought and my actions. Personally, I don't think on such a linear level, and I'm sure many others don't as well, but when you write about such events, (in other to not look like a crazy lunatic) you have to write it as a story.

nknighthb 13y ago

Where did you come by a connection between "lawyer" and "middle school educational policy"? If she were a lawyer for a middle school, you might have a point, but she's not.

jcampbell1 13y ago
Good laywers can read between the lines. That is their job. She did not stop and think "Why does this principle care? Why is she making this call? What are the motivations?" Would not hire as a lawyer.
- nknighthb 13y ago
  I don't typically stop and think about the motivation of administrative drones, either. I would hope no lawyer I hired would waste time in such a manner unless it was actually relevant to the matter I hired them for. I, too, would not hire her as a lawyer, but that's because she isn't one anymore. She's been an instructor and professor for more than a decade, not a practicing attorney.
  - sanderjd 13y ago
    Remaining willfully ignorant by dismissing of activities and occupations you have judged negatively without having any knowledge of what they entail is no way to go through life.
    - nknighthb 13y ago
      If I stopped to investigate the motivations of every bureaucrat who tried to discourage me from exercising my rights and outright lied about their motivations in the process, I'd really never have time for anything else. What's worth defending here?
      - sanderjd 13y ago
        It's not for them, it's for you. Making it a point to understand those who cross your path in life makes you a better person. And it doesn't take all that much time, just a little empathy. It's ok to dislike things and people, but I really hate the "I don't know anything about it, I don't want to know anything about it, and I strongly dislike it" attitude that I thought your comment exhibited.
- mcv 13y ago
  I suspect she was operating in parent-mode rather than lawyer-mode at the time. You don't have to be your job at all times.