re: #105 palomino

Who the hell would want to become a public school teacher now? Not only do you see a shrinking salary (that wasn’t that big to begin with for someone with at least a 4 year college degree.) But now your profession has been demonized by the right. A society that devalues its teachers isn’t really moving in a constructive direction.

I know this was on the Daily Show, but it really is hard to take this kind of demonization not so long after we got treated to a whole lecture on how taxpayer money had to go to lavish benefits for the people who’d just trashed the economy, because, heck, they might quit if we didn’t subsidize them.