:) I say all that, of course, being someone who still gets letters from
students who had me, who was considered a "teacher" at the blog, and who
fondly remembers every teacher I loved. my point is that there is an
ensemble of social relations that made it possible for me to fall in love
with those teachers and feel their indelible mark upon me. one or two or a
dozen mediocre teachers does not bring tragedy on a school or a student.
students get a poor education for a multitude of reasons and pinning all
our hopes on single teachers seems like a fucking stupid thing to waste
political energy on. IOW, we have to pick battles and, AFAIC, one of those
battles need not be "weeding".
An interesting test is if you would apply the logic about weeding to every other profession. Or is it just teaching?
shag
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