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Stop being a victim, please. It doesn't help your case or the children you teach.

Oh and by the way, a farmer is punished during a drought, he loses money. Doctors who consistently underserve patients lose their licenses. You live in a fantasy world if you truly believe others are not judged on their results. We all are.[/quote]

Your argument is ridiculous.

If patients are dying of certain diseases, are doctors asked to just have higher expectations for their patients? No, that would be absolutely ABSURD. Instead, millions of dollars are spent on finding cures and medications. In turn, our society has discovered many amazing ways to treat diseases that were once considered untreatable. If doctors had just been asked to have higher expectations we'd still be at square one, and we'd still all be worrying about getting polio.

Also, doctors who treats patients with fatal diseases do not lose their licenses when those patients die -- please, again, that is absurd.[/quote]

With that analogy you are basically saying the teacher (doctor in your analogy) has zero responsibility and all failures are 100% the fault of the students (the dying cancer patients).

The more correct analogy would be one where a doctor sees healthy patients with minor but treatable conditions, fails to treat them, and then they die.  Death was never inevitable, just as failure to learn never was.

Students are not dying cancer patients, sorry.  Their lack of learning is not their fault.  You are there to EDUCATE them, not to ignore them or give them a sub-par effort, and leave them to just go off and wither.

That whole analogy was wholly unconscionable and distasteful, and you probably have no business whatsoever in the education business, if that's what your attitude is.[/quote]

I didn't mean to say that doctor lose their licenses if cancer patients die. If a doctor withholds treatment for no reason, s/he would lose their license. BUT My broader point being is everyone is subject to evaluation as part of a job! I really disliked her analogies, btw.[/quote]

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