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Smarmie Doofus

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2. Some of them are actually.

Reply to upaloopa (Reply #1)

Fri Nov 7, 2014, 01:27 PM

Nov 2014

They generally become administrators.

By which I do NOT mean that all admins are evil doers. Just that there is a destructive ... and brutally ironic....dynamic at work here. If someone's miserable in the classroom, hates kids, hates teaching.... but likes the perks of, say, a 10 mos. calendar, what are his/her options?

That is correct.

And no one's figured out the answer to that one yet.

Hell, they're not even asking the question.

We've got a long way to go.

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Corporate ED "Reformers" Crash and Burn in Cal. [View all] Smarmie Doofus Nov 2014 OP

This was an easy one for me. Teachers are not upaloopa Nov 2014 #1

Some of them are actually. Smarmie Doofus Nov 2014 #2

I think what you are talking about is so not upaloopa Nov 2014 #3

Yes! AwakeAtLast Nov 2014 #4

Oh, they LIKE the admins. They rely on them. Smarmie Doofus Nov 2014 #5