I can only speak for one person, a friend of mine who teaches in Louisiana. From what I have heard from her, there is little to no respect. She was called a racist when she would punish children of a certain colour (not her colour, obviously), and I believe she was even threatened. This was one of the reasons she left public school and went to a private school.
Locally (SE Virginia), one district refused to gives raises to any of the teachers, and expressed shock when droves of them left to find jobs elsewhere. Of course, this is also the same district that still hasn't air conditioned some of the schools. (And while we may not be _deep_ south, we do get pretty darn hot here.) I can say that I will teaching my child to respect his teachers and will not accept anything else. -RC > > I remember back in the day (1980's) when I was in middle/high > school and we would respond to our teachers with sir/ma'am. > And this was in public school (Comfort, Texas), mind you. We > didn't do this because we had to, we did it out of respect. > Do kids still do this in school? I don't have any kids (that > I know of), so I'm kinda out of the loop with that stuff. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
