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p.s. I just re-read that old comment I made a while back and it's SO true it's scary. My wife is a teacher as well, and frequently during dinner our discussion hovers around the phrase "soul-crushing" regarding the work they expect us to do and how we're compensated and treated as a result.

And 8 p.m. bedtimes? Right here < Now you know why I'm not online much anymore.

I'm seriously thinking of becoming a technical writer of some kind. I've browsed job openings and even the lowest paid tech writers (which i could EASILY do) make 10-15k more than me (it'll be my 6th year teaching and I'm @ 32k, I'm really robbing them eh?).

I'm sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you. Honestly, I've been extremely busy teaching. They keep adding things for us to do outside of the classroom and the pressure is ALWAYS on to get test scores up (bullshit after school, seminars, pep sessions, [academic! pep sessions w00t!]).

That said, here's my take on things: in spite of teaching being a hard (HARD) job, I still feel that education is the answer to a lot of these problems.

If the public were educated enough to see the causational relationships between what John Stewart is describing here with regulation and alcohol abuse being diminished, we'd live in a much better world.

That said, people don't value education for a variety of reasons. I go into some of that here: http://videosift.com/blog/blankfist/Stupid-in-America#comment-1311236

It took me a long time to format that old comment (several hours if I remember correctly). Enjoy!

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