Growing anti-teacher perception seems just in tone with the government in power at the federal level at the moment, and it seems reasonable to assume that the demographics of political voting in this country say something about the winds of popular feeling.

Perhaps it's time to migrate away from direct answers to questions: when a child asks you "whether you believe in God", you start out a unit on the value of that age-old advice of how it's never a good idea to talk about religion or politics in public. 8/

One of the reasons I chose not to go into the teaching profession when I had the opportunity was knowing full well that I had very little patience to spend on the kind of idiotic dancing about one had to do in the face of all-too-common parental ignorance, arrogance, and laziness.