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Thus spake Larry Jones  <laj@ncweb.com>:
>It seems some of you morons missed my whole idea in the first place.I was
>not talking about who should be paid more,I was talking about why the 
>strike in general is stupid and who it will hurt the most.THE KIDS!!!!!!

Many non-teachers are "mercenary" about their work.  They work, they do
a good job, they get paid for it.  They're not paid to care about work
when they walk out the door, they're not paid to do 'above and beyond
the call of duty', and so they don't, except where they see it's of
benefit to them to do so.

There are teachers now that have the same attitude.  They don't care
about the kids.  Some of this comes from administrative and public
attitude.  For these teachers, being compensated fairly (for some
definition of fair, not all are the same) for their work is their
highest priority, just like it is for computer programmers.

Should these people be teachers ?  I don't know.  What makes teaching
such a "more noble" job than computer programming, that makes teachers
subject to moral scrutiny, expectations that they should work "for the
joy of teaching", and etc ?

-- 
Doug Sewell (doug@cc.ysu.edu) (http://cc.ysu.edu/~doug/)
	Youngstown Ohio is now area code 330.

You are your own worst critic.  Strive for excellence, not perfection.