# Teachers so full of shit. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 1, 2013, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825 "2013-11-01T08:30:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825/41 "2013-11-01T23:04:33Z")
> [@Mrmanface](#): > > What I don’t respect is a smelly hippy who never shaves or washes, has no motivation, no back bone, and the weakest hand shake I have ever seen going into the teaching profession. I am so angry, because THAT piece of SHIT in one way or another is going to be a role model and an educator of young minds. Right: and the teaching profession is just chock full of people like that. Damned hippies. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825/42 "2013-11-01T23:03:30Z")
> [@Mrmanface](#): > > Women teaching in primary school is different, that is like a duck to water. Just wondering when you are expecting your first child ? Must be exciting to be having a son ? > > What I don’t respect is a smelly hippy who never shaves or washes, has no motivation, no back bone, and the weakest hand shake I have ever seen going into the teaching profession. I am so angry, because THAT piece of SHIT in one way or another is going to be a role model and an educator of young minds. > > I don’t even know how this idiot is still in college. I’ve been gone from college a long time and he was there when I was there. My son is almost four years old now, we aren’t expecting another child currently. ---
**Author:** ![Mrmanface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mrmanface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrmanface)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825/43 "2013-11-01T23:25:23Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Right: and the teaching profession is just chock full of people like that. Damned hippies. :rolleyes: Well to be fair, the older teachers are Okay. I had some good, intelligence, conservative, masculine teachers that still taught us a little bit about what it means to be a man and how you should work and not be a little turd your whole life. Overwhelmingly the people I observe going into the profession are just idiots. They’re not living in the real world and think the economy will survive on fair dust. They don’t value science or mathematics but like to crap on about “ideas” and how “being intellectual” is enough to sustain a nation. I have desperate fears for the next generation if those are the quality of people who will be educating them. They are so much worse than the previous generation in every single way. If a man cannot shake hands properly then I don’t even think he is a real man. I mean I’m not expecting every man to be athletic and tough because that is just silly, but how hard is it to shake hands properly ? Limp wristed woman. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825/44 "2013-11-01T23:32:25Z")
Has Ron Swanson lost all sense of cleverness and decided to start posting on this board? ---
**Author:** ![Mrmanface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mrmanface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrmanface)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825/45 "2013-11-01T23:44:38Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Has Ron Swanson lost all sense of cleverness and decided to start posting on this board? Just googled him. The is actually exactly what I look like… ---
**Author:** ![Mrmanface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mrmanface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrmanface)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825/46 "2013-11-01T23:47:26Z")
Oh, not wait he is far too handsome. Take it back. ---
**Author:** ![cornopean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cornopean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornopean)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825/47 "2013-11-01T23:51:30Z")
Teaching is a tough job but in a free economy, people decide what you are going to get paid. Just like products have a price, so labor has a price. and Bill Gates’ labor has a much higher price than mine. So…if anyone is upset about how much money they make, then they need to go out and increase the value of their labor. ---
**Author:** ![Mrmanface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mrmanface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrmanface)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825/48 "2013-11-01T23:52:06Z")
> [@cornopean](#): > > Teaching is a tough job but in a free economy, people decide what you are going to get paid. Just like products have a price, so labor has a price. and Bill Gates’ labor has a much higher price than mine. So…if anyone is upset about how much money they make, then they need to go out and increase the value of their labor. God that makes no sense at all. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825/49 "2013-11-02T00:45:36Z")
> [@Mrmanface](#): > > Do you see how that is illogical ? You have the utmost respect just because they became a teacher. \*\*So I could enrol in a teaching course, and all of a sudden you’d have the utmost respect for me \*\*? > > Why are you enabling crap people to enter a profession ? bolding mine - No chance of that here… nope, none. ---
**Author:** ![thisishowwepray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7feea3/32.png) [@thisishowwepray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thisishowwepray)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825/50 "2013-11-02T00:56:59Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > You know, I don’t complain about being a teacher. In fact, I’ve made about 3000 posts on this board over the course of a decade about how much I enjoy being a teacher. But in day to day life, I’ve found no one wants to hear about how much you love your job and how fulfilling you find it. It comes across as smug, frankly. Totally. Almost everyone complains about their job. It seems like about the most normal thing I can think of to go to the bar with a couple friends and complain about work. I think it’s psychologically healthy to complain a bit about work, and it’s probably even polite in this situation. Bonus points if the complaint is funny or odd and you’re telling an amusing story rather than whining. And really, a little whining is healthy and fine. I would feel like a total dick in the aforementioned situation if my friends complained a bit about their jobs and I said “well MY job is so fulfilling and I’m VERY happy with it actually, SUCKERS.” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825/51 "2013-11-02T01:07:11Z")
> [@Mrmanface](#): > > Well to be fair, the older teachers are Okay. I had some good, intelligence, conservative, masculine teachers that still taught us a little bit about what it means to be a man and how you should work and not be a little turd your whole life. > > Overwhelmingly the people I observe going into the profession are just idiots. They’re not living in the real world and think the economy will survive on fair dust. They don’t value science or mathematics but like to crap on about “ideas” and how “being intellectual” is enough to sustain a nation. > > I have desperate fears for the next generation if those are the quality of people who will be educating them. They are so much worse than the previous generation in every single way. > > If a man cannot shake hands properly then I don’t even think he is a real man. > > I mean I’m not expecting every man to be athletic and tough because that is just silly, but how hard is it to shake hands properly ? Limp wristed woman. So you’re a Republican and a homophobe, or at least that’s what I’m picking up from your rant. You’re using a lot of right buzz words, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825/52 "2013-11-02T02:58:42Z")
This is without a doubt one of the most moronic OP’s I’ve ever seen on this board. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825/53 "2013-11-02T03:08:32Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > This is without a doubt one of the most moronic OP’s I’ve ever seen on this board. I’m having great difficulty believing in the sincerity of the OP and his expressed opinions, or the worth of engaging in the conversation. So I guess I’m out. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825/54 "2013-11-02T03:29:42Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > You know, I don’t complain about being a teacher. In fact, I’ve made about 3000 posts on this board over the course of a decade about how much I enjoy being a teacher. But in day to day life, I’ve found no one wants to hear about how much you love your job and how fulfilling you find it. It comes across as smug, frankly. I like it. You sound like you really love your students. You sound like you get to teach what you want to teach, and when something new is thrown at you (was it AP Econ?), you see it as an opportunity. You sound like you have a great district, administration which is for the most part supportive, students who are generally motivated high achievers and parents who are only minimally helicoptery. I still couldn’t stand to DO your job - because I suspect that you have a higher tolerance for helicoptery parents, low motivated students, and non-supportive administration than I have - but you do make it sound rewarding and fun. And I’ve never thought you sound smug. I can gripe about my kids teachers (really, can you update the parent portal sometime BEFORE the last week of the semester so we can work together - me, you, and the student - to get in late work, make up tests, and address concerns. And if you expect them to improve - feedback within a few weeks of them turning in their work would probably be helpful), but they’ve really only had one BAD teacher (apparently, watching Chevy Chase movies is very important in seventh grade Science), but I respect every one of them (well, except for that one) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825/55 "2013-11-02T03:43:38Z")
> [@Doctor\_Why\_Bother](#): > > Then it’ll probably fuck him up and you’ll have the last laugh. Either way, I don’t get what your problem is. Are you his guidance counsellor, or something? > > Just out of interest, what do you do for a living? Judging from the assertion that half of his friends are teachers, I’m gonna guess he’s a Junior High School principal. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825/56 "2013-11-02T03:48:50Z")
> [@Doctor\_Why\_Bother](#): > > Personally, I think anyone who bitches out members of any profession should be made to do it for a month or shut their fucking holes. I think that, when it comes to teaching in particular, the culture shock alone would reduce the perennial and desperately tedious criticism of teachers among the general public by about 500%. Let’s see, that would lead to _negative 400%_ of the current amount of tedious criticism. Which I agree, would be nice to see, but I can’t begin to imagine what it would look like. ---
**Author:** ![Mrmanface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mrmanface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrmanface)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825/57 "2013-11-02T04:23:04Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I’m having great difficulty believing in the sincerity of the OP and his expressed opinions, or the worth of engaging in the conversation. So I guess I’m out. I’m not objecting to teachers. I’m objecting to the people that become teachers. There seems to be the assertion that it is every single man for himself unless you fall into one of the categories that brain dead left wing hippies have a boner for. There are some good teachers and some bad teachers, like every profession. I don’t think I’m trying to debate that what I’m trying to debate is this one instance where I KNOW this person is bad, but is doing it anyway and despite knowing he is bad I am going to act like he is an intellectual taking up a job for the love of society when the truth is no one else will hire him because he is a smelly hippy who won’t cut his hair. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825/58 "2013-11-02T04:46:30Z")
You poor victim! ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825/59 "2013-11-02T05:40:31Z")
Mrmanface, you’ve been noted for this posting style before. You’re really pushing the line for seemingly posting things just to get a reaction. I debated closing this topic, but finally decided to move it to the Pit, where I believe your apparent true hate and disdain for teachers rants should go. Please know now that you have reached your mod note quota. You WILL start getting warnings from now on if you do not change your way of posting. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Why\_Bother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19adc/32.png) [@Doctor\_Why\_Bother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Why_Bother)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825/60 "2013-11-02T12:45:39Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Let’s see, that would lead to _negative 400%_ of the current amount of tedious criticism. > > Which I agree, would be nice to see, but I can’t begin to imagine what it would look like. Hey, I taught English not maths 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teachers-so-full-of-shit/672825.md?page=4)