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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll get flamed for this, but the less intelligent people I know are or were in education. Teachers and principals. [/quote]
Especially men. My FIL fits this description. [/quote]

Yep. PP here, and 3/4 people, including the one who became a principal, are men.[/quote]

+1, but to the general point.

Education is also a good industry if OP’s child is particularly emotionally high maintenance. [/quote]

[b]I’m trying to imagine a Physics, Trig, Government, or World Literature with a low IQ. [/b]I don’t see it.

It’s not just having content knowledge, it’s about knowing how to engage an unwilling audience and delivering it.

Same goes for a 1st grade or 3rd grade teacher. Sure, the concepts may not be particularly complex, but knowing how to deliver them? That’s ridiculously hard and takes skill: organization, communication, the ability to differentiate and immediately pivot without a plan, etc. Not to mention the understanding of theory and child psychology they need for the job.

I have nothing but respect for teachers. I know what they do is extremely demanding, including intellectually. But if people just think they “play with kids,” you wouldn’t think that. 
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Elementary ed, not hs physics. Plenty of relatively dumb people there, despite PC requiring everyone to go on publicly about "respect for teachers" and "what they do is extremely demanding." [/quote]

Where’s my requirement that you respect teachers? This is DCUM. I’m fully aware most people here don’t respect them. (Most people here also have no clue what teachers do.)

I am a teacher (high school) and I know many elementary school teachers. So I’m coming from a place of understanding; I know the day-to-day requirements of the job and I’m fully aware of the skills and talents necessary to pull it off.

But most people on DCUM aren’t in my shoes, so I am not surprised when people go on and on about how teachers are “relatively dumb.” This is DCUM, where people anonymously put others down all the time. It’s what I expect. Hence, no… I don’t demand respect from you or anyone else here. [/quote]

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