[graciegirl]

Now...about Teachers. It was funner and more productive to teach before the unions started helping us. It was easier to get the job done without someone on the school board pitching "Catcher in the Rye" into the trash can and worrying a lot about Harry Potter books. It was delightful to be able to hug your students without worrying someone would think you were a molester and that if you had to reprimand a student for bad behavior you would get parental support rather than a law suit.

It was joyful and wonderful and so great to teach kids who had their breakfast, an ironed shirt and parents who would see them at dinner. When drugs were aspirin sold at Grays and when teachers tried to get the best out of each and every kid, know that each was different and learned differently. Sometimes it took awhile but we may not have made them all valedictorians but we saw that eventually everyone got a job.

That was a time that teachers stayed after to coach the cheerleaders or baseball team and showed up at the PTA meetings.

I don't know that I would choose teaching again as a job if I had to do it all over.

Yes. I did say funner. It was.