Most professionals -- which teachers desire to be treated like -- have done quite well over the past 34 years despite fewer and fewer organizational defenses of

Most professionals -- which teachers desire to be treated like -- have done quite well over the past 34 years despite fewer and fewer organizational defenses of their conditions. Unskilled labor is another story. Unless teachers should be treated and protected like factory workers. Usually teachers object to that characterization, but if you want to argue for it, okay. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professions [2] I'm assuming you are using Reagan's election as the start date of the professional malaise. Call it a lucky guess.