Oh, right, I forgot to add on my tirade about the California constitution part of the oath. I thought lawyers got paid to defend the California constitution, and much better paid than public-school teachers. What teacher has time to even read the whole damn thing? (No one studies more than a very basic civics outline of California constitutional law in high school, if that. If you want to study that stuff, you need to go to law school or else autodidact with your vast amounts of unoccupied leisure time.)
Thanks to the peculiar history of the California initiative process, our state's constitution is enormously gigantic and filled with vast swaths of lawyerese about arcane subjects. Why would anyone want to swear all public-school teachers to an oath to defend that?
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Date: 2008-03-08 05:53 am (UTC)Thanks to the peculiar history of the California initiative process, our state's constitution is enormously gigantic and filled with vast swaths of lawyerese about arcane subjects. Why would anyone want to swear all public-school teachers to an oath to defend that?