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[quote=Anonymous][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;[b] 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.[/b]

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]

But you don’t know what you don’t know. Which means you don’t really know how easy your job is. Because you aren’t that smart, and you don’t have the context. It’s not like being a doctor or a lawyer to be a teacher.[/quote]

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