I never met a teacher in 38 years, 4 states, 7 cities and towns from urban to rural, in 9 schools at all levels and in most subjects from middle through high school in both Regular Ed and Special Education categories with many summers of summer school on the usual grade levels down to beginning elementary, again, Regular and Special Ed, who got into teaching to become rich. This was clear by the fact they were teaching summer school to make year-round ends meet.

They weren’t expecting riches but did hope for professional respect and a decent income with health benefits since they would be exposed on a regular basis to whatever bacterium or virus any student could introduce on any day in any class, and these could be brought home to the teachers’ families.

I also know many teachers who, for a variety of reasons, choice or circumstance, never had children and those in their classes over the years were their surrogate children. They were more than somebody’s children.

In Loco Parentis and all.

And, let’s be honest, teachers are often the filter through which some kids must pass to leech out some of the negative baggage that came with their family to be better able to deal with the social realities they will encounter as adults.

But never having been listened to in the past as if they were somehow in a profession they knew nothing about and whose classroom experience counted for nothing when student needs werre brought up, teachers are n ow a political tool, this comong quite unexpectedly from parts unknown.

Teachers are the enemy of the children’s education, especilly when they are teaching what they actually aren’t. Like CRT.

The other day, Senator Tom Cotton went on Bill Hemmer’s show on Fox.

The president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingartner, had been on the stage with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry Mc Auliffe the last night of the campaign before this past Tuesday’s election, and Bill Hemmer asked Senator Cotton what he thought about that.

The senator, not a friend of teachers, responded,

“Randi Weingarten is a joke.”

This presaged a discussion of her political errors, but instead we got,

“Randi Weingarten does not even have children of her own. What the hell does she know about raising and teaching kids?”

What does that say of the hundreds of great, effective teachers who made huge positive contributions to generations of students?

Weingarten, a 63-year old Democrat, lawyer, former teacher, lesbian, and is married and, along with her spouse, is raising her stepchildren called him on it.

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“Wait…Did I misread this or did Tom Cotton just say any teacher who is not also a parent shouldn’t be able to teach? Really? Is he now disqualifying every nun from teaching? Or is this simply a new divisive & hateful homophobic slur against LGBTQ teachers?”

“Millions of people who raise and teach and care for America’s children are not parents. Parents everywhere rely on their expertise. Parents everywhere rely on the profound commitment we all must have to other people’s children, their health, well-being, and potential.

“We owe them- teachers who are parents, and teachers who are not parents- our thanks, not insults. Parents and educators are partners and must work together to help our kids thrive… stop the dog whistles Tom and help us help our kids recover.”

If you are wondering what the dog whistle is, recall that an Ohio senate candidate, Republican JD Vance, said in July that a lot of the problems in this country is due to the “childless Left”. As his proof he pointed out Peter Buttigieg as an example of someone who didn’t “have a stake” in the future. He was, obviously unaware that Pete and his spouse, Chasten, were in the process of adopting children.

But he went further to suggest that people with kids should get more one extra for each child they have.

In a recent floor speech in the Senate, Cotton did his usual attack on the socialist, communist, anti-American Democrats, but then defended the verbal and physical attacks on school board members at meetings and at home, and the same when it came to teachers because they are teaching bad things to the students and indoctrinating them in some het to be summarized ideology.

I am retired, but in my day, I had to deal with the craziness of crusading parents who tilt at windmills that actually are not there and are righteous in the sight of the Lord that teachers in large numbers will be dealing with soon and, hopefully, only as a passing thing.

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It’s not fun, but you will survive.