Interestingly enough, I have been involved in a similar conversation on another message board that you’re involved in now. Someone claimed that teaching was easy and they knew all about it since they went to school for most of their lives and was currently working on their Master’s degree. You may not have liked the doctor example that was used early, but it makes a valid point. Just because you are on one side of something, it doesn’t mean you know everything there is to know about the other side. I’ve eaten at McDonald’s, but I don’t know what it’s like to work there. I’ve hauled stuff in cars and trucks before, but I don’t know everything that’s involved in driving a truck for a living. I’ve participated in, coached, and gone to sporting events, but I don’t know what it’s like to be a professional athlete. I really didn’t have a clue about what teachers go through until I became one. You’re making a lot of assumptions when you say you know about the teaching profession and quite frankly, you’re way off. If you think teachers just work seven and a half hours a day or nine months out of the year, you’re sadly mistaken. After reading your attack on teachers and their pensions, you come across as someone who is very hard headed and I don’t expect you to learn anything from this. I will end by saying that you are way off and until you become a teacher yourself, you’ll never even have the first idea of everything that is involved in being a good teacher.

(Not sure I totally trust Snopes either.)