What teachers really want to tell parents.

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

You compared questioning a teacher to questioning a doctor. That's borderline insane behavior.

Unless you'd like teachers to be subject to malpractice suits? I do enjoy money ...

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.

And I recall a preschool last year being sued for the educational equivalent of malpractice in New York.

[KSig RC]

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.

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.

Case in point:

And I recall a preschool last year being sued for the educational equivalent of malpractice in New York.

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.