Facebook

Okay, so I had my first confrontation on facebook today over something totally ridiculous. I swear people can get some real courage when they don't have to look at you face to face.

So, I wrote a comment to a note that someone wrote, you know those 25 random things note that have been going around. Anyway, on her note she said that she has always dreamed of becoming a teacher. I said, that she should totally do it and that if public school had more great teachers like I know she would be, it would be better off. And to let me know when she got her degree so Ben and Grace could be in her class. The comment was meant to encourage a woman to pursue her dream of teaching, not to slam the teaching profession of which I am a part of and plan to return to once the kids are in school.

So this girl who I don't know, how convenient for her, writes she doesn't like confrontation, but has not trouble expressing how she feels and goes into this diatribe about how the best people she knows are teachers and they work so hard (like I don't already know that), and if society would embrace teachers, kids would be better off.

Obviously this tirade was meant for me in regards to my comment. So in the interest of clarifying what I meant I wrote back that I know there are great people in public school, and just like there are great people, there are also those that aren't and I simply wanted to encourage Katie to pursue her dream.

What I didn't say in the interest of being rational was, Hey, get off your high horse, I was and still plan to return to being a teacher and while I have worked with some amazing women I have also worked with some women that I would never want to teach my kids and if you think every person who enters into the teaching field is a gem who society should embrace then you have lost your mind. I don't even want to mention all the teachers in the news who have not been above reproach and all the women who have been in the field so long they are resistant to change even though it may be better for our children. My note was meant to encourage HELLO, how about you do the same.

Or maybe a simple BITE ME would have worked too.