While I am a proponent of free speech, believe it to be the cornerstone of any free nation, there is the inherent implication that we will be intelligent enough to censor ourselves in certain situations. As an educator, then, it appalls me to read another story about a young teacher posting pictures in a public forum, some sexually provocative and others of her partaking in open drug use.
In a profession that already struggles in this country for the respect necessary to do its work, where good people are struggling to find positions being filled by a flood of young people who enter the field with no real passion for it, nor a real willingness to do it, these people are evidence of how skewed our priorities and screening processes are when it comes to one of the most important service professions.
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