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On the good news front, the teacher of our youngest had no problem two months ago with him bringing a toy rifle that fires Nerf bullets in to class for "show and tell".
He was even allowed to cover what kids should do if they find a REAL firearm.
The same teacher even asked me to come in as a guest speaker and talk about Afghanistan without preconditions or censorship.
The teacher is still a hippy, but she's not an evil hippy.
My wife has a lot more time than I do for it, but I try to remain as active as I can in my kids' education to monitor and mitigate the crazy.
Pick ups, drop offs, events.......shaping operations work in both directions.
The most noticeable thing to me is teaching(at least elementary school) is like nursing and daycare.......not female dominant.....practically female exclusive professions/trades.
A few years back when our kids were in part-time daycare there was a controversy over a male daycare worker filling in for annual holidays of permanent staff.
He was really well regarded by the kids(being the only adult male) but was not allowed to change a dirty diaper unattended.....I personally thanked him(I'm not afraid to admit it takes a stronger man than me to work with a couple dozen little disease factory rugrats) and submitted a complaint to the owners and the early education accrediting outfit.
I reckon more male(as well as female) veterans who pursued post military professions as educators would be a very, very, very good thing....both way down here and way up there.
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