Reply #35: A word of explanation.

[tomreedtoon]

I know about teachers. In school I was humiliated by them. I was beaten bloody while they did nothing to help.

Years later, I dated a teacher. I saw the lives she and her colleagues lead outside of school, their real feelings about learning and teaching and their students.

It's true that I didn't study every single teacher in the United States, but I got a pretty representative sample from two communities. I know enough that if someone tells me she is a teacher, I immediately back away. No sense diving into that cesspool again, even socially.