Reply #148: +2 million.

[liberalhistorian]

I'm sick to death of people around here who've never set foot in a classroom, yet feel perfectly qualified to make pronouncements and judgments and proclaim what should be done and minimize the horrible damage being done to teachers, their profession and public education, then get mad at actual teachers when they try to explain things. Unbe-fucking-lievable. I grew up with very hard-working teachers who put up with a lot of shit and know first-hand that teachers don't get anywhere near the appreciation, respect and compensation they more than deserve. And it is a critical and vital profession without which most others would not exist.