Matt Damon Says A Lot Of Fancy Words While Defending Teachers

Actually I think what makes a the difference between a good teacher and a bad teacher is the fact that the good teacher loves his job, this would be a starting point. We rely on them with our kids, we took our college degrees with their help, they deserve a little more credit, they are shaping the minds of our country.

Dear Matt,
"Waiting for Superman"
rent it from Netflix, watch it, THEN get back to us.

(and unions do not belong in the public sector. They are everything that is wrong with the profession. Love teachers though!)

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Submitted by Frybread on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 11:24am.
Tenure for K-12 teachers isn't the same thing as tenure for university professors.

At least in my state, all tenure means is a K-12 teacher can appeal their dismissal in front of the board of education.

Like everything else, right-wingers twist the truth to push their own agenda.

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Shut up, Leftie! Next thing, you'll be telling us that Paul Revere didn't warn the British that the British were coming and that all you need to know about foreign policy is that Alaskans can see Russia from their backyard.

this coming from someone that makes 2million in one shot

Tenure for K-12 teachers isn't the same thing as tenure for university professors.

At least in my state, all tenure means is a K-12 teacher can appeal their dismissal in front of the board of education.

Like everything else, right-wingers twist the truth to push their own agenda.

I would like to weigh in this if I could. I'm Singaporean and I'll be the first to admit that most of my knowledge of the US stems from the Daily Show. Both my parents are teachers, most of my aunts on both sides of the family are teachers, many of my cousins are teachers, 60% (85% for non-honours grads) of my arts grad friends are teachers and both my brother and I do relief teaching (subbing) cos it it's the best paying part time job for undergrads and jobless graduates. So I really do know what I'm talking about.

Teachers here don't have tenure. At least not in public schools, but NOBODY ever gets fired unless they; I don't know, slap a kid who slapped them first. Every school is funded and strictly monitored by the government, except autonomous schools, which are, you guessed it, more autonomous. Teacher are graded each year by the VP and P based on their portfolio, class results, favouritism etc. Grade A gets promoted. Grades B & C get a sliding scale performance bonus. And grade D well sort of gets black marked. Like I said earlier, hardly anybody gets fired but Ds are surreptitiously nudged out, many quit.

Majority of the people I know do it either for money; it's their best option and very stable and yes they like the longer vacation period ( However I can safely tell you that they hardly ever enjoy a full week, uninterrupted.) Most of my teachers were OK, some were dumb (but theses numbers are decreasing, since all new teachers must be graduates), 1 or 2 were downright mean to me and a handful were inspiring (strangely enough, mostly my Caucasian teachers). But most of them CARE. Even as a sub, I cared for my students, to the extent that some tried to follow me home(my neighbourhood is surrounded by school that I teach in).

Schools are upgraded constantly by the government. Well performing schools get a performance bonus. Teachers get quite a few benefits including complete job security. Basically all this is possible because my country isn't crippled by debt. However the education crisis can't be put on the back-burner just because of the debt crisis. I can't imagine how bad the unemployment situation there is. Civil service jobs here, are famously known as the "iron rice bowl". The Caucasian teachers often tell me how much easier it is to teach students here. So I believe teachers suffer a whole lot more in the US, not even including their shitty pay(and possibility of death by shooting rampage), so a little job security couldn't hurt. It's ridiculous how much more your government spends on defence than education and how eager it is to start new wars. I really feel for all those earnest, hard working teachers who were fired because Bush fucked up. A pox on his house!

PS : Matt is looking VERY fuckable!

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Submitted by HockeyMom on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:10pm.

Matt's just happy he got him some fancy book learnin' so he can read them there scripts and contracts. Bet they highlight the line for him where to put his X.

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hotpocket on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 12:48am.

Exactly. I don't think many folks are aware of how warped it is to have a FED with NOTHING to back up the dollars to print but OUR LABOR (in other words, we have become SLAVES).

We are a small business and we are struggling to just survive.
Crony capitalism needs to end, but, so does over-regulation so that businesses can grow.

There is no perfect answer, that's for sure, but, people are jobless (7 out of 10 people I know are jobless!!!!).

As my husband often says, "Where's our bailout?" I guess we we're 'small enough' to FAIL. :(

It's a miracle we didn't. We are still hangin' in there, baby [picture old kitteh picture from the 70s haha).

As far as Social Security & Welfare, that has been rife with abuse. Black families were basically destroyed by the Welfare state.

I want to care for the poor, elderly and children who have nobody to care for them...but, isn't it a sad sentiment about our society that folks don't want to care for their own and would rather dump their family on society rather than being responsible for their young and elders? Just fucked up.

Hoof Arted,

Yes, the Federal Reserve is awful and is a huge part of the mess we're in that no one talks about. A private entity printing the money. The value of the dollar and interest rates are artificially controlled. And there are people profiting from the recession. It's funny how people think these things just happen from thin air.

We have a government that's a puppet for big business. I think capitalism is great, but if private companies are dictating the laws behind the scenes in a democracy, that's something else entirely.

We pay taxes. And a lot of this money is being funneled directly to defense contractors, etc., and there is a staggering amount of corruption and waste. Hundred dollar nails and toilet seats, shady contracts, endless war. All money in the bank for a few. If we got rid of the bullshit and corruption, we'd have a surplus of money.

We pay taxes to provide services for our people, and we should have a say in how the money is spent. They say we vote for our representatives so we can have a voice, but our elected officials, for the most part, no longer speak for us. To my understanding, this teachers' movement is asking for a voice, above all else. I don't believe in welfare for anyone, rich or poor.

hotpocket on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 11:14pm.

So it's alright for a celebrity to endorse makeup, detergent, Viagra, as long as they're getting paid for it, but for an actor to support not only a worthy cause, improving the state of education, but to support his mother, is wrong. I see no problem in standing up for what you believe in, and if he's using his fame to draw attention to the problems in our public schools, then more power to him.

I agree with this IN PART. Celebs have a much bigger soap-box and platform, and, although they are another voter, they are not like all of us average folks who don't have that voice, and, by and large, almost all of Hollyweird is tilted LEFT which IMHO isn't exactly very fair with regards to throwing political weight around.

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And there are shitty incompetents in every profession, including doctors and lawyers, and plenty more of those do it for the money than teachers. I'd put money on it. Consider that if you're ever on the operating table. I've run into more money-grubbing doctors who didn't care than I have teachers. That troubles me more.

Agreed.

Allow me to ask you something though...

If 'public sector jobs' start to outnumber 'private sector jobs' not only in numbers but costs for benefits...where do you think the money is going to 'magically' appear from?

The Fed is printing money backed by NOTHING (not gold or silver or anything 'tangible') but all of OUR LABOR which is devaluing our blood-sweat-tears so they can 'redistribute' it to special interests like Unions and welfare check recipients who expect big daddy government (i.e. you and me) to pay for their gas, their food and their housing ad-infinitum (and their children and their children's children too through generation after generation of welfare dependents).

The irony is, the more our dollar is devalued by the more printing of money to BUY our own debt, we are making poor people poorer and the middle-class strapped to their britches in desperation. Ever heard of Zimbabwe and their million dollar bills? They are all millionaires (but, a loaf of bread costs a quarter million)!

There will always be stupid people, lazy people, homeless people and poor people. There is no utopia in Socialism. The more you hate people who are successful, the more that green-eyed monster will come back to bite you in the back when the coffers run dry.

There are teachers who are borderline retarded themselves 'teaching' children. I find that reprehensible.

I, for one, am glad I home-schooled my child. She tried 'public school' once (because I always gave her the choice) and the classroom was so disruptive and loud that she couldn't even concentrate on her tasks.

Home-school, if you can. Private school if you can afford it.

http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2011/06/08/how-a-teachers-rally-made-me-a...

Team Matt Damon.

With that, goodnight/goodmorning you sluts. *leaves bottle of sake in thread in honor of Matt bringing awareness to Teachers everywhere*

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So it's alright for a celebrity to endorse makeup, detergent, Viagra, as long as they're getting paid for it, but for an actor to support not only a worthy cause, improving the state of education, but to support his mother, is wrong. I see no problem in standing up for what you believe in, and if he's using his fame to draw attention to the problems in our public schools, then more power to him.

And there are shitty incompetents in every profession, including doctors and lawyers, and plenty more of those do it for the money than teachers. I'd put money on it. Consider that if you're ever on the operating table. I've run into more money-grubbing doctors who didn't care than I have teachers. That troubles me more.

Ever since Dell outsourced their customer service/tech to India and Asia...NIGHTMARISH.

My first desk-top computer which was a Dell computer back when Dinosaurs still roamed the earth and I put that poor ol' thing through hell because I was an idiot and made all of the typical mistakes n00bs make and I was constantly calling Dell tech and they were great back then and got me through many re-formats after I screwed up my windoze 95 operating system. lol! I had one guy Dell on the phone with me for 12 hours straight trying to help me fix my puter and when he had to leave his shift another guy took over for ANOTHER 12 hours and we went only for bathroom and snack breaks but those guys got my puter back running!

Now? The accent is hard enough (they are super nice though...no hate on that end) but, these folks have NO clue and refer often to their software crap to answer questions rather than being knowledgeable first-hand. OY VEY!!!!!!!

My grandmother was a school-teacher and she was an angel. I had some really great teachers and some equally bad ones. Just like life in general, it's a crap-shoot.

Teachers aren't saints (for sure) and public sector unions should have NEVER come to be and agreed that throwing money at schools doesn't solve SHIT. Parents who don't care about their child's education will create children who don't care about their education. It's a slippery slope when a few trouble-making children who come from backgrounds that are less than idyllic cause the most disruptions and trouble in a classroom and teacher's are caught between a rock and a hard place.

Question: How do so many children get churned through the public school system without ever learning to read or write? How does this happen and why don't the parents notice this and do something about this? Have parents become so dependent on the government to take care of their offspring that they take NO interest AT ALL in their children's education and ultimately their future to fail or succeed.

Just sad.

TOO many typos. hehe

Submitted by Tyroan on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 6:20pm.

I just love it when our token angry conservatives prove the point of the GOP cultivating a culture of stupidity.
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Always after my own heart. And you rightly pointed out how shitty my state is regarding education. I had to go to a meeting today with a principal who's trying to fill positions because teachers opted to resign at the end of the year last year instead of potentially being let go. Districts here are a mess. We all know who this really affects, as someone mentioned earlier.

This is happening in a state where our governor claims we're doing oh so great in this economy (yeah, right, tell that to my underpaid ass and the struggling school districts). All this while he fucks men on the DL, hates gays in public, AND holds a prayer vigil for rain for Christians only.

I miss Ann Richards.

Where did all these right wing nutjobs come from, anyway, and why on earth do you appreciate a blog that so often celebrates being gay and a stoner? Oh, I know: it's the pro-gold-digging angle you like, since grifting is something most of y'all understand really well!

It's truly a thing of beauty when people are mentally capable of nothing more than spouting random anecdotal evidence (from "I personally know two whole teachers, so now let me preach to you about the whole educational system..." to "hey, I partied with some education majors in college, and they were all dumb and lazy..."), but still think they have something important and insightful to say about an entire profession designed to cure ignorance just like theirs. If you want to masturbate your opinions on this subject in front of other people, at least do some fucking research, dumbasses.

Matt needs to borrow his boyfriend Ben's new Beatle wig.

I Get Along Without You Very Well

Matt should not talk anymore. He looks good, though.

Up until 4th grade I thought it was a prerequisite for all teachers to be nice. God was I ever wrong.

My high school Chemistry teacher (the WORST teacher I have ever had in my life) actually admitted to my class that the only reason he became a teacher was because he was a boozer in college and his grades weren’t high enough to get into med school. He didn’t know what else he could do with his Chemistry credits besides become a teacher. His poor teaching skills actually made sense after he made that revelation.

Apparently Matt had some awesome teachers at his school. Not all of us were that lucky.

I have several friends who are teachers and one of them is smart, but she teaches 2-year-old special needs, and the others are idiots. Oh, and there's another that went into the school administration from his teaching job once he realized it was a nightmare.

I love when multi-millionaires like Matt Damon become experts on teachers etc.

Submitted by Bjork You on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 8:08pm.

You are a sweetheart. I couldn't resist responding. I have had to fix my computers myself ever since everything went to India. I'm lucky I know a thing or two in that area. I feel sorry for people like my parents who have to call in and get nothing. Anyway, thank you. I know he's one of those knee-jerk Rush Limbaugh types, couldn't help myself. I credit good teachers in my formative years for inspiring me to think for myself and not believe everything I was told. Poopele could have used that.

Kudos to all the teachers out there. I couldn't do it. It wouldn't be the students as much as the parents. I would have to stab the parents in the forehead with a ruler.

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its bruce bitch...@ all you bitches who hate on teachers..S. T. F. U!!!!!I teach first grade...I spend @ 500.00 minimum per year on supplies,websites,education,and furniture...I do love my job, but I have to work w/in the constraints of that job...teachers need tenure because even if we do our job to the absolute BEST of our ability...we are tied to state tests that are given to all students with or without disabilities. Our jobs are held by a school board who have never met us, never observed our rooms, or know our students. We are under scrutiny every day from parents who don't really like us because we're not like someone else (them). Matt Damon is a huge voice that we need in this country for ignorant slobs to hear.....

Submitted by Tyroan on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 2:24pm.
Submitted by TexnDoc on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 11:39am.

Bless your soul for weighing in from the state ranked 44th in per-pupil spending on education, and 50th in high school graduation rate.

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Submitted by Tyroan on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 6:20pm.
I just love it when our token angry conservatives prove the point of the GOP cultivating a culture of stupidity. (In response to that idiot Poopele and some others.)

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You are on a brilliant roll!!!

Submitted by hotpocket on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 8:03pm.
Ha! I just woke up from a nap to read I'm a turd. Poopele, you are a riot. I just had to call one of your brilliant IT workers from India for help setting up a router. His ultimate solution? He couldn't help me. I ended up fixing the problem myself. No joke.

I don't know if you're military, Bill O'Reilly or just someone whose life sucks so they have to call strangers names on the internet, but once upon a time, before this war on terror, the U.S. did not have this massive deficit that's crushing us. Statistics can be skewed six ways from Sunday, but if that's what you want, the military budget is now at 1 to 1.5 trillion per year. The school budget, including colleges, is just under 70 billion. If Obama increased it, then it probably needed to be. But I'm neither Repub or Dem, so I don't care to get into that partisan horse manure with anyone.

The point is, schools should be considered a worthy expenditure, in light of the massive waste and graft in other areas. If you are going to cut school's spending based on performance, then I say we do the same with the military.

And yes, I'm a cunt. Have a nice night.

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Just ignore that ass, as most people here do. He's a nasty, stupid, racist troll who keeps losing his way here instead of going to his true destination, stormfront.org. Your posts are way over his head.

Submitted by dfanintheD on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:02pm.
Weighing in as a former teacher myself:

The public education mess is far too complex to for sound bytes or a quick political fix.

Blame the teachers? Sure, but in doing so you're ignoring the larger, overriding difficulties...

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Well written and so true. Thanks for this.

Ha! I just woke up from a nap to read I'm a turd. Poopele, you are a riot. I just had to call one of your brilliant IT workers from India for help setting up a router. His ultimate solution? He couldn't help me. I ended up fixing the problem myself. No joke.

I don't know if you're military, Bill O'Reilly or just someone whose life sucks so they have to call strangers names on the internet, but once upon a time, before this war on terror, the U.S. did not have this massive deficit that's crushing us. Statistics can be skewed six ways from Sunday, but if that's what you want, the military budget is now at 1 to 1.5 trillion per year. The school budget, including colleges, is just under 70 billion. If Obama increased it, then it probably needed to be. But I'm neither Repub or Dem, so I don't care to get into that partisan horse manure with anyone.

The point is, schools should be considered a worthy expenditure, in light of the massive waste and graft in other areas. If you are going to cut school's spending based on performance, then I say we do the same with the military.

And yes, I'm a cunt. Have a nice night.

jerseygirl...yes there is. Teachers aren't the only ones who have unions.

"maybe they ENJOY the abuse heaped on them by people like those in this comments section who dismiss all of them based on three assholes they may or may not personally know"

NO KIDDING!

I also find it really annoying when people dismiss someone's intellect b/c he or she happens to be an actor.

Rusty....he grew up with a mom as a teacher. That's how he knows. I'm sure she discussed her job around the dinner table or something. He never said he knows how to teach.

p.s. - I would so do Matt of the Bald Head.

Submitted by Whatever on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 3:08pm.

His mother is a college professor at Lesley College in Cambridge Mass. He does know what he is talking about.

By osmosis? From Thanksgiving dinners? By that logic, his mom knows how to act.

I Get Along Without You Very Well

I just love it when our token angry conservatives prove the point of the GOP cultivating a culture of stupidity.

Submitted by hotpocket

while they skimp on the future of our people. If it doesn't make their oil/defense/banking friends rich, they're not interested

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You are an ignorant cliche spewing fuck.

In Camden New Jeresy, they are spending 30K a year to send ig-fucks-like-you to High School.

In India they have a GDP per person of 1.7k/year.

Walk into the IT Department of any Bank or Insurance Company in NJ and it will not be filled with employees from 30k/yr Camden schools. It will be filled with people from India.

Between 1980 and 2005 real (after inflation) spending on Education doubled on a per student basis. Since 2008 Obama has increased Eductaion spending another 67%.

The problem is not funding you brain-dead turd.

Submitted by P.T.Bull on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 2:40pm.
So, a union prepped dude with some talking points. Entonces? Actors memorize words and speak on cue.

Notice how his response to the cameraman was a childish insult rather than engaging on the substance--its because he isn't thinking for himself so he could not formulate a response of the same calibre as his prepared remarks.
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Exactly. I don't care how many SAT words he threw in or what his mommy does for a living. There is no system in place to keep the cameraman from being fired no matter how shitty he is. So it's apples and oranges.
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Good for him. My mother was a teacher, too, and so were a lot of women in my family. Disgusting amounts of our money go to the military industrial complex, (that's why our country's fucking bankrupt) while they skimp on the future of our people. If it doesn't make their oil/defense/banking friends rich, they're not interested.

And to base where the money goes off test scores? So then you have teachers spoon feeding the test material, instead of actually teaching. These kids won't develop any kind of intellect or advanced cognitive abilities beyond remembering. Monkeys can be trained to memorize. Give 'em hell.

The daily show did a brilliant piece not too long ago where they showed a bunch of Republican assholes on Fox News arguing that CEO's on banks don't make too much money and deserve to get bonuses from the bailout money...then they showed the exact same people arguing that teachers make too much money.

Republicans are against education because their party is the only party with a vested interest in keeping the masses uneducated. If stupid poor people were just poor people they wouldn't vote for tax cuts because they would understand that being poor means they benefit more than they put in when it comes to taxes. Alabama for instance always elects representatives that want to cut taxes despite the fact that the state takes in far more federal dollars than it pays out.

"Maybe you're a shitty cameraman, I don't know!"

That's right Matt, throw it back to that goofy muthafucka. I mean really. What a dumb, false argument. His mother is a professor of education at Lesley University so I'm sure he knows of what he speaks.

I was wearing a grey sleeveless poly-blend shirt, red shorty shorts and matching Converse!
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Pictures, or I don't believe it! (please, whoever there is above, let there be pictures!)

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I'm a firm believer in the philosophy of a ruling class. Especially since I rule.

Nice "Ooh I love the little people!" speech, just after whining that being rich and famous is like being in prison. Shut up, Matt.

His mother is a college professor at Lesley College in Cambridge Mass. He does know what he is talking about.

I don't even care what he thinks about acting. He knows even less about teaching.

For someone who has it made, on marginal talent, he's an awfully angry person.

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So, a union prepped dude with some talking points. Entonces? Actors memorize words and speak on cue.

Notice how his response to the cameraman was a childish insult rather than engaging on the substance--its because he isn't thinking for himself so he could not formulate a response of the same calibre as his prepared remarks.

Submitted by TexnDoc on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 11:39am.

Bless your soul for weighing in from the state ranked 44th in per-pupil spending on education, and 50th in high school graduation rate.

Submitted by PeepingKat on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 1:03pm.
Aaaaaaand this is why people hate teachers. I'm a teacher and even I don't believe teachers should get tenure.
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@evil cupcake: bravo or brava, whichever applies. maybe both! it's that kind of place. :D

@franknbeans re "Lots of people stick with jobs they hate because it's a fucking job, Matt, and the bills don't pay themselve except in the movies. " i think his point was that most people who become teachers do so not because they're seduced by the glamor/high pay/short hours of it, but because they WANT TO TEACH. why they stick with it i'm sure varies as much as the individuals do: maybe they're stuck, like you say, although most of them have three months in the summer when they could find another career. or maybe they stay for the respect they get from the parents of the little hooligans they try to impart knowledge and, sometimes, even wisdom to. maybe they LIKE the challenge of trying to teach 40 kids in one room while their budgets for resources have been slashed until they're non-existent. maybe they ENJOY the abuse heaped on them by people like those in this comments section who dismiss all of them based on three assholes they may or may not personally know. you don't know, and i sure as hell don't know. what i DO know is this: jumping to conclusions about people simply to dismiss their points of view is ... uneducated.

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but, then again, what do i know?

Two of my aunts are teachers and are two of the most hardworking women in their profession. Please do not punish ALL teachers because some are lazy. Get rid of the bad ones and get people in those jobs who actually want to make a fucking difference.

Also, Damon has never turned me on before, but once you use Fifty-Dollar Words, I melt like butter.
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I would slaughter a thousand babies for an hour alone with Mike Rowe."

Aaaaaaand this is why people hate teachers. I'm a teacher and even I don't believe teachers should get tenure. Sure there are some who work really hard and do it because they love it, but there are just as many who do it because they think it will be easy. I actually went to college with a girl who openly admitted she wanted to be a teacher because then she could just sit at her desk all day and do nothing. Thankfully the school I went to was very rigorous and kinda weeded out the people who shouldn't teach. But not every school that has a teaching program is that strict. I previously worked with a woman who would show up for student teaching hungover or would call out because she was drunk. Her cooperating teacher AND field supervisor knew this, yet they still passed her and she went on to get her ECE certification. Trust me, I really do understand that in MANY ways a teacher's back is up against the wall and the state of education is not entirely teachers' faults. But there are still plenty of shitty teachers who just don't care.

I don't think I could ever stab somebody cause I'm really bad at Capri Sun.

he phine!

Even if you had the top 100 teachers in one school there would still be a bottom 10%. Something tells me that even if someone explained "The Bell Curve" to the cameraman.. he still wouldn't get it.

Damon is getting better with age.

What hollyrollernova said

One of my sisters spent so much of her own money buying supplies for her kids and she did not care but of course as a new teacher she was one of the first ones to go....lucky for her there is enough lazy ones to keep her employed as a sub year round.

Ugh tenure makes me so fucking mad! I dunno I may take a night job so I can send my kids to private school....like seriously considering it.

10% of people in every profession suck so that is a bad argument. I think people started out as teachers and get really excited but after a few years, asshole parents and school politics make teachers bitter.

And regarding pay, yes some teachers make good money. If they work in a rich school district. But the majority around the county do not make high salaries, if fact are making less then ever because of cuts.