Yell at you....? Maybe a well-placed shot-group, but never yelling - it's so uncivilized....!!
And yes, just for the fun of it, I did take an English language proficiency test, found it neither difficult nor confusing, and thanked the dearly sainted Mrs. Ada Collins
for having given me the gift of understanding English better. I only hope that others were as blessed by inspiring teachers as I was.
Like you, I have also served as a substitute teacher, but after having experienced the intellectual, moral, and leadership bankrupcy of public schools, I decided to eschew the $5,000 bonus being offered, and seek gainful employment elsewhere.
Unlike many current ills and problems of American culture (or lack of culture, as the case might be), I would not lay all fault at the feet of Der Schlickmeister, tempting though it might be. Public or as some call it, government schooling, has been in serious decline for decades, and is a prime example of liberal problem solving: if we just throw more money at it, it will get better.
Bah and humbug: there are legions of examples of schools that spend vastly differing amounts of $$ with widely varying results. My basic problem with the whole process goes all the way back to the foundation of my belief system: is education a legitimate function of the federal government? For me, the answer is a resounding NO, and the Dept. of Education should be abolished, resulting in billions of $$ that could rightfully be spent on constitutionally mandated concerns, like veteran care.
