Same with teachers - now you hear so much about teachers having sex with their kids, and getting DUIs, and some of the teachers I've seen at school board meetings, etc. are just the nastiest people.
What has happened??
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I can't say much about nurses, not having had contact with many of them over the years, but most of the ones I have seen fit your description. I guess there are good and bad in nursing just like every other profession.
I do work in the education field and can speak to the current crop of teachers coming out of college. Every state is different, but I can tell you that in Pennsylvania they have to go through a fairly rigorous training, and it's not easy to get certified by the state. There are exams to pass and I have known people who didn't pass them. So there truly are attempts to keep the incompetent from getting into the system.
That having been said, though, it should be pointed out that these exams only test technical knowledge of their subject area and how to teach it. Any nasty pain in the butt can put on a smile and charm their way through an interview. And once they ARE in the system, they are just about impossible to get rid of because of their powerful unions. I have succeeded in firing a couple of teachers in my career. These people were truly horrible and didn't deserve to be where they were. But, generally speaking, the union mentality encourages mediocrity.
This has always, to me, been the central dichotomy of teachers. They complain (as another answerer here did) about being treated like professionals, but then they want to organize, unionize, strike, and get paid for every "extra" second that they spend at school. This is not how professionals behave. Professionals do whatever it takes and spend as much time as it takes to get the job done, regardless of compensation.
So the way I see it, teachers gave up their right to "professional respect" when they decided to become "labor" and align themselves against management. And, unfortunately, these are the ones who show up at board meetings and complain, fuss, and act "nasty," as you say.
There are a LOT of great teachers out there. As with the nurses (and cops, and lawyers, and anything else you could name), we have to rememeber that there are good and bad in every profession.
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They are stressful, low-paying jobs. Women have more choices now. All fields are open to them, not just teaching and nursing.
We need to respect teachers and nurses and treat them like the professional people they are.
I've noticed this too, especially what you said about nurses. This person is supposed to be helping me to have a healthier body and yet they obviously do not respect theirs enough to eat appropriate amounts of healthy food. As far as their grammar, it makes me wonder just how educated they actually are. I will say that in the few times I've required the care of a nurse, I've never felt like there was a correlation between their inability to speak properly or their being over weight and the way I was treated.
What I've never been able to understand is why teachers are so under-valued! Doctors, Lawyers, executives, etc can make millions of dollars, but what about the people who taught them to read? The whole public school system is in desperate need of an overhaul, if you ask me, from the way schools are designed to the teaching methods to who they allow to influence our children. Unfortunately, I think it will get worse before it gets better.
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