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[quote=Anonymous]While I understand that the inflection can make a compliment feel backhanded, as in "That was so professional." conveying praise for a job well done versus conveying surprise that it was so well done, but as the saying goes, sometimes a banana is just a banana.

I can tell you that I have worked for over 20 years in IT and have worked with a number of teachers,  I can vouch for the fact that there are many, many people in IT and education who are not so professional and it has nothing to do with race.  Technical skills and presentation/communication skills are very different skills and unfortunately not all teacher excel at both.  I have seen more teachers of all races and ethnicities who excel at one or the other than I have seen who excel at both.

Unfortunately, with the poor pay scale of teaching, many of those who excel at both do not teach at public schools.  We need to find a way to improve the pay scale of teachers so that we can improve the number of teachers who do excel in both and are very professional.[/quote]

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