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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
It's an ANALOGY. Argument by analogy can indeed be a fallacy, but in this case the points of comparison do make a larger point about expectations of educated professionals.
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You and I both appear to have misinterpreted her, based on her subsequent post, so all good there - I can see how it could be read wrongly on my part, and completely buy her point.
I hear you about expectations (and teachers' education) but even if your interpretation was correct, it still hand-waves the differences in education (and expectation) between a doctor and a teacher.
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And I recall a preschool last year being sued for the educational equivalent of malpractice in New York.
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The "educational equivalent" isn't all that equivalent.
Bottom line: nobody should treat teachers with disrespect, derision or anything similar. But nobody should really treat
anybody that way, particularly in a professional setting.