Drive by Rant
I am such a door mat.
My daughter and I just had dinner in a restaurant where the tables are way too close together. The women at the adjacent table was loudly berating teachers. In her opinion it was a women’s job and really those women who become teachers do it because it is an easy job and they can still spend lots of time with their kids. Teaching is a job for women who just can’t commit to being a stay at home mom.
I am shocked by these statements until her dinning companion mentions there are lots of male teachers. She responds that these are just men with out any back bone who could not take it in the cooperate world so they teach this way they can feel like they are the head of something.
And I just sit there. I could not even begin to come up with a comment or response.
What would you do?
2 thoughts on “Drive by Rant”
I think I would quote Taylor Mali’s poem on What Teachers Make. LOL. You can find it here on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xuFnP5N2uA
Beth, I would have had a hard time not saying anything. If I had the courage, I would have asked her what she does for a career and then asked how her education helped her do her job. Then I would have invited her to spend a day with me in my third grade classroom doing my job. The parents who spend time volunteering in the classroom are the most appreciative of what we do as teachers. It amazes me that many people feel the way this woman does.