I'm in a unique position to say: "Yeah, it is."There are a TON of areas where teachers have it worse than lawyers: this ain’t one of them.
— jjbsport (@jjbsport1) April 19, 2021
Lawyers can embarrass themselves in front of judges and other lawyers, and clients can be peeved. But you learn from your mistakes, and clients deserve representation, but they also deserve the benefit of your knowledge.
Teachers have knowledge, but everyone knows that it should be, and how they should, or should not, impart it. Come back to me with comparisons when state Senators are trying to pass bills to make sure you lose your job if your clients slander you and you sue them for it. Especially if your clients don’t like who you represent or how you represent them. Yeah, that happens to lawyers, doesn’t it?
Not that I’ve ever heard of.
The situation in California is another instance of lawyers having it better than teachers. Yes, the teacher should have contained her/his anger. But a lawyer faces either the partners (peers or employers) or the clients offended (you get new ones); a teacher faces unemployment for expressing the stressfulness of the year. I sympathize with the teacher’s stress; part of that stress is that the wages for sin, in teaching, is too often death.
How many other professions face that sanction simply for being human?
Following up on that twitter thread, this may be the most truthful statement I've read so far this week, including everything I've said:
ReplyDelete"Knowledge of the law is insignificant next to the power of people’s feelings about what the law is."
TV and the movies, theatrical manipulation and misinformation, has made that so much more dangerous.