Maggie's Farm

Dear MissT:

I agree with you. I was a single mom and did a pretty good job w/o any help from an absent father my first husband. However, I did not do that by sitting around feeling sorry for myself! Nor, were there any support groups nearby to help me get the job of my dreams! Lastly, I have to tell you that I have met some monstrous school teachers. The most dangerously neurotic in my experience have been those teaching 4-8th grades. With seniority they get moved up to teach the older kids which is considered an intellectual accomplishment. However, they are not capable of teaching anyone but K-1st grade, so as the captive audience becomes more of a challenge the teacher's neurosis become more and more dangerous to any child. I personally know a woman who believes that at least half of her fourth grade students are frustrated homosexuals and she delights in encouraging them to make their feelings known. I believe she does this because she doesn't like teaching in the backwater Republican town she finds herself in--can't stand those rednecks you know! I shudder to think of harm she has caused over the years. Finally, got an "opportunity" to retire early (they bought her out). The union system controlling our public school systems will go down in history as the decimator of this country!