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Originally Posted by 33girl
Pamela Smart? Carolyn Warmus?
I'm kind of joking, but I'm kind of not.
I think it started when the majority of kids' parents were no longer factory workers or secretaries, but were college educated. (Whether they were doing a job that they were educated for was irrelevant.) People no longer thought "well, (s)he went to school for 4 years to do this, (s)he must be right."
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I have to say that I agree with your entire post. I do think that the more educated our society becomes, the less they tend to agree with the teachers because some parents think they are right (since they are equally educated). In fact, I think there are many people out there, sadly, that look at teaching and the education field as a "fall back" option if they don't find the job that they want. Even with all the red-tape you need to cut through to become a teacher in this day and age, teaching has almost lost its prestige in some areas beause there are teachers that have become teachers because they didn't get the job they wanted and this was their alternative plan. We need to learn to give teachers more respect. I think 33girl hit the nail right on the head.
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