As a spin-off to Why are you a Democrat - Why are you a Republican?

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14:53's view epitomizes the attitudes that prevent top-notch candidates from entering teaching. The profession is not respected. I went to one of the so-called "top three" Ivy League schools and I knew no one who was planning on becoming a teacher. It was not even discussed as a possibility. Everyone went to Wall Street, law school, or medical school, except for a few geniuses who went to grad school in astrophysics, philosophy, etc. If you had told your classmates you wanted to become a teacher, they would have been been amazed. They'd have secretly pitied you for your stupid idealism.

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Anonymous wrote:14:53's view epitomizes the attitudes that prevent top-notch candidates from entering teaching. The profession is not respected. I went to one of the so-called "top three" Ivy League schools and I knew no one who was planning on becoming a teacher. It was not even discussed as a possibility. Everyone went to Wall Street, law school, or medical school, except for a few geniuses who went to grad school in astrophysics, philosophy, etc. If you had told your classmates you wanted to become a teacher, they would have been been amazed. They'd have secretly pitied you for your stupid idealism.

Being a retired professor, and knowing how much harder I found the teaching than the subject matter, I have a great respect for good teaching. Recently a lawyer closed on a mortgage for us, I was impressed by what a good job she did explaining what we should be aware of. I wanted to compliment her by saying she would have made a great teacher, but I was afraid that she, as a lawyer, would not find it very complimentary. It's a shame that perhaps thousands of kids were denied a fine teacher because our society values lawyers more than teachers.

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Anonymous wrote:a retired professor, and knowing how much harder I found the teaching than the subject matter, I have a great respect for good teaching. Recently a lawyer closed on a mortgage for us, I was impressed by what a good job she did explaining what we should be aware of. I wanted to compliment her by saying she would have made a great teacher, but I was afraid that she, as a lawyer, would not find it very complimentary. It's a shame that perhaps thousands of kids were denied a fine teacher because our society values lawyers more than teachers.

Exactly. Teachers should be highly paid and schools should be palaces. Its' where the minds of our future are molded, for crying out loud! It shouldn't be the first place we cut when we can't afford to pay for more WMDs!

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Anonymous wrote:About at much as I trust other countries and crazies to spend billions of dollars on weapons. The world is what it is. Confilct, the race to dominate finite resources, and survival instinct will always be.

A Republican who bases his world-view on Darwin rather than the Bible!

The problem with Dems and this way of thinking is that they simplify and understimate Rs a nd Tea Partiers. You dems think of republicans as being a homogenous group of right-wingers when actually MOST republicans I know hold more libertarian views. But keep up the ingnorance and stereotypes, they irony is nothing short of classic! Your way of thinking does nothing, but cause gridlock and divides a nation that actually needs action and not school yard bickering and name calling.

Who is oversimplifying and generalizing now? As if "us dems" are one monolithic group. Are republicans? No? Think about that then . . .

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Anonymous wrote:To the poster who is Republican so that s/he can give his/her property and assets who whomever s/he wants at death-

I'd like to do that too, however I'm in a same sex relationship. Were I able to marry my partner of 10 years, I'd be able to list her as the beneficiary of my retirement account- thus covering both her and our two children. However, as I cannot marry her (nor am I able to adopt the children I have raised since birth) both she and our children would, at my death receive only the funds I have contributed toward my pension, rather than the full pension amount that opposite sex couples and their families can get. And of course they will get taxed like hell on the transfer.

So, are you saying that if I become a Republican, your team is going to help me with this?

An excellent point. EXCELLENT point. These same "hands off" republicans are usually -though I will admit in a minority of instances, not always - the first ones to tell you who you can marry and who you should have in your bedroom. They are hypocrites.