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I feel like I need to come back in here and clarify some of my earlier rants. They came off as very directed at teachers, but it's the whole effing system that made me hate, hate, HATE working in public education.

Hell, hate is probably not even a strong enough word.

Loathe.

Despise.

I would rather have rabid poodles rain from the sky and eat the flesh off my face then ever work in that system again. That's how I felt about the whole thing. Not just--or even predominately-- the teachers.

The level of incompetence was staggering. The fact that I couldn't fire incompetence, even worse. I could write a book about it, except that no one who has never worked in the Government would believe it! This also extends to the stupid chit the Feds do. Go ahead and read the FAR (that's the Federal Acquisition Regulation) sometime. You'll want to gouge your eyes out with a fork by the time your done.

Then it will dawn on you... My tax dollars fund that stupid bovine waste effluent. And you'll be mad as a hornet.

I thought I was the only one who had there face eaten off by a rabid poodle falling from the sky. That chit hurts.

We had that proverbial seat at the table here and failed it miserably.

Last year, we voted on renewing a $.01 school sales-tax in our county and it lost. That is about $.02 extra on a huge grocer shop. A penny on a fast food lunch. That's an amount so small It couldn't make any real difference in 99% of our lives. It is painless. A measly $.01 on any purchase up to several hundred dollars. That is all.

I shudder to give my neighbors a real seat at the table and any more influence about whether teachers can effectively unionize and bargain collectively. They just blew it big-time on the simplest, no-brain-er opportunity they ever had and just won't hesitate to screw us all again.