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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Altruism is about putting others first and in this case it means a teacher putting the education of their students first. Anyone who has the ability to put their students first would not have time to hang out in the teachers lounge discussing their students and their parents who they have backlisted as CRAZY.

If you consider every student and every parent CRAZY, who asks you a few simple questions then you have obviously chosen the wrong profession. Clearly, your level for tolerating life's minor annoyances is far too low for you to be successful at any profession and especially so for teaching.

The truly great teachers are altruistic. They are not in it for the money, they work many more hours than they are paid creating dynamic comprehensive lessons, they ask probing questions to assess mastery, they read their students essays and problems, they mark them up and grade them fairly, and they develop teacher/student relationships on their own without being mindless slaves to the Teacher's Lounge Groupthink about students, parents, administrators.

Altruistic teachers are kind and gentle, and they put their students first. Great teacher never allow themselves to become part of the cool-teacher clique. They never use uneducated uninformed pejorative terms in which they can't substantiate like crazy, insane, pita and helicoptering. Those are just the verbal expressions of selfish weak minded individuals who have clearly entered the wrong profession.

If your teaching skills are being challenged it's not because your student's parents are crazy, it's because you are less than an effective teacher. If you are a less than an effective teacher then in all likelihood you enter this profession for the wrong reasons. You didn't enter the field of education teach because you have a true passion for the content matter in which you teach, you entered it to have your summers off, or to coach, to be able to pick and choose your teacher's pets, to be the smarty-pants in class again or to one day become an administrator and you can't wait to get out of the classroom.

Take this weekend to think about the real reasons you entered the profession of teaching. If you come up with any other reasons besides having a burning passion to teach children everything you know about your subject and life in general, then you've chosen the wrong profession.

If my advice to you makes me crazy in your opinion then you are a hopelessly flawed human being who has no chance of improvement or ever becoming a skillful teacher. [/quote]

I stopped reading in the 1st para when you said teachers shouldn't take breaks, even short breaks, in the company of other teachers. And PSA: you're talking to multiple posters not just a single teacher. I'm an economist, for example.

My theories on this poster:
(1) S/he's certifiably insane.
(2) This is a troll who likes winding people up. Recently a teacher poster said her teacher friend comes on DCUM to post crazy things just for amusement. That would make the poster "pseudo" certifiably insane.

Hmmmm.... I could go either way. Really crazy? Or just pretending to be crazy?
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