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[quote=Anonymous]I think OP's logic is flawed.  What the shorthand "easier" usually means in that context is not that those characteristics of private schools make the job "easy" so lazy teachers can sit around munching bon bons.  What it really means is "easier to more effectively educate."  It means easier for the teacher to focus on the children's learning rather than extraneous bullshit, and easier for the children themselves to learn.

I suppose there could be some lazy teachers out there who mean "easy" in the sense of wanting a cushy job, but I suspect that's not terribly likely in an employment-at-will situation of a private school.

Your analogies to lawyers and doctors are flawed.  For example, a low-level prosecutor might have "easy" cases in that they're not terribly complex, but she will have hundreds of them at the same time, so her job is very hard and she's very good at handling certain types of pressure.  By contrast, a BigLaw litigator may have only 1-2 active cases at a time, and they may often be in a highly structured federal court system, so they're "easy" to manage the logistics.  But those 1-2 cases will be incredibly complex, with multiple stakeholders and huge risks at stake, making the litigator's job incredibly hard and ensuring she's very good at handling that type of complex case.

Your claim only makes sense if "easy" is linked to "lazy."[/quote]

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