Reply #126: Educators should not be laid off. They are a national resource! + recd

[Vehl]

The certain few here who keep on insisting that these arts faculty should go try get some other jobs do not understand that teachers are one of the best resources a nation has. Any Tom Dick and Harry can train to be a policeman or a soldier(two of the "jobs" held by one of those naysayers) but to be an educator takes more than just saying "yes sir" and following orders. Furthermore Educators "Educate" the next generation...if all of them were to keep on switching jobs as some have suggested..it would seriously affect the education(and also the quality of it) the next generation will get. Especially the arts fields(i'm not in that field nor in the teaching field) require constant practice. If teachers were to go work some other job and come back to teach Art 10 years later...the chances are that they will be very outdated/out of touch with the field. Therefore educators should be protected from this fire-and hire mentality that plagues a lot of institutions nowadays.

This is the last thing we want in a competitive world.(with many countries already producing more students than American does)Firing teachers is akin to shooting our own foot.

When will people stop thinking of immediate benefits and look at the long term?


PS: all the Best to your friend Nikki..I hope the bloodbath stops. i'll forward this mail to my friends.