Quote Originally Posted by Patriot76 View Post

First every profession has it's advocates and those that despise them. Look at lawyers, policeman, teachers, scrappers, the list could go on forever. Most despise others because they envy them. Ever heard the saying, those that can - do, those that can't teach?
I don't know if it's even relevant, but, you can't take any group of people and say the same thing applies to every member of that group. You have to take people one at a time.

My mom taught for quite awhile and then took an early retirement for health reasons. I remember that for years afterwards her former students would ask how she was doing and remark " She was one of the best teachers i ever had. " I don't think they were saying that just to be polite. They probably meant it.

I dunno .... about 1/3 of my customers are people who are / were involved in education. They're teachers, school administrators, college professors, even the president of an esteemed college. They're kind of a mixed bag. One thing i have noticed is that if they've spent most of their working life safely sheltered within the protected environment of academia their worldview is a bit distorted.

ie: They tend to view themselves as centrists but in practice many are quite far left of center. Consider that our current president was a college professor who taught constitutional law ?

Anyway, it gets weird sometimes. Quite a few college professors and some H.S. school teachers have sort of an elitist attitude so they tend to look down on others that don't quite measure up to "their" standard. It's a kind of arrogance & conceit that would never play in the real world. They're living off in their own little reality bubble. They're sheltered from the harsh realities so it's not like they ever have to come down out of their ivory tower.

There's probably some truth to the statement .... "Those that can't teach."

If they ever had to live in the real world a few would adapt and survive but many wouldn't be able to function.

Point being: Context is everything. We've got Hunter's side of things but he's a man of few words. We really don't know what's going on so we're left to speculate.



If his teacher really is an academic with an attitude it's a shame. For all any of us knows scrapping may be the one thing that Hunter was meant to do in life. A really good teacher will recognize this potential and help a student along their way.

A poor teacher will try to stuff him into a box that he was never meant to be in.