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[quote=Anonymous]I've noticed this among the upper middle class types who gloat about their credentials and say they "believe in education" - yet they don't revere teaching as a career. It's not something to be mentioned in the same breath as lawyers, MDs and MBAs - and certainly not something they'll boast about their own children doing. They see teachers as people who couldn't cut it in the "real world" and don't respect teachers as professionals - even upper middle class liberals seem to buy into the charter school hype. Let's replace experienced teachers with 23-year-old Harvard grads who did it as a "public service" stint before going onto law school or Wall Street. This article in the Washington Post, although 2 years old, is bang-on: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/why-people-look-down-on-teachers/2012/09/14/0347c52a-fddf-11e1-a31e-804fccb658f9_blog.html [/quote]
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