Saz, I don't think you should take it quite like that.
I understand that since you are a teacher yourself it will "feel" more personal, but I doubt that most people in the two threads that I think you are referring to meant to generalise. In the case of Uss's thread, I think if his English teacher really is as he tells us, it *is* an outrage! He didn't say anything about teachers in general, he just related a story about a very bad teacher that he happens to have.
For the other thread, I see your point more: the title *does* generalise. But I do think you should relax. I doubt people here hate teachers as such, there just happen to be bad ones as well as good ones, and the reason why this raises tempers so much is because many of us either have children or are in school themselves: good education is very important to them.
I don't mean to diminish your point of view, I do realise it must be hard to do such an (at times) ungrateful job.
FWIW I loved most of my teachers, respected them, looked up to their erudition and learning... LOL, I was a right nerd and teacher's pet [img]tongue.gif[/img]
So I do agree that it's awful if their efforts aren't respected and appreciated. All I'm saying is that I don't think people meant to be quite as harshly generalising as it feels to you now. [img]smile.gif[/img]