Again - set those goalposts down - I never said everyone could. But recent grads who want to be teachers, sure. Many other professions as well. Even those that require certification (like teaching............)

And you still could have saved up. Again, not easy but something you could have done. However, you kept yourself out of that situation by your study/employment choice.

Except it was possible for you. You did it because you found a job and they moved you.

People who live in poverty typically don’t have the educational attainment to land a job like teacher.

No. No it isn’t. Granted this was a while ago, but not that long ago (2002). College was still massively expensive, etc.

If you are a recent college grad, you can move - absolutely everyone can do it baring extreme circumstances. So if you are at the beginning of your career, that is what you need to do sometimes. It’s tough, but people have done it for generations. We have new immigrants to this country that have figured it out and are…

Exactly. When these sites were running down on Ann Coulter for her roast bombing it wasn’t a misogynistic attack on women - it’s an attack on a bad person.

In their view a woman isn’t worse than Trump. First, a Democrat is. Second, Hillary Clinton is. If you switched the ticket and had Kaine as the POTUS nomination this would still have happened.

That is too simplistic a view though and sometimes you have to make a career choice. My wife packed up and left her family to move to a place she had never even visited and knew almost nothing about because she couldn’t land a teaching job for 2 years - despite being well networked with teachers (including her parents…

That goes beyond black people though. There are teaching jobs for anyone who wants them and is willing to move. Other than that it gets regional. Some places have to few job openings for all the people graduating with teaching aspirations. Others are scared off by the pay and politics (the major reason I didn’t…

I just think they did it all very well and would be concerned about tarnishing that goodbye.