I know I shouldn’t take the bait…but I have to say something. Of COURSE there are MD’s who are ineffective and even bad at what they do. There are in EVERY occupation, because there are PEOPLE in those jobs, and people vary in what they can and are willing to do at their jobs.
I had a useless MD. He literally shrugged his shoulders and said, “I dunno” when he did not see anything obviously wrong when I went to him. Only after I pointed out my family history and insisted on a certain test did he agree to consider anything other than just sending me home. My daughter saw another MD at urgent care once who suggested that our family “pushing” her to read was causing her asthma (what ELSE were we supposed to be doing while waiting at 2 a.m.?). Oh, and my SIL’s doc missed a very obvious sign of a stroke, and it wasn’t until a second, more serious stroke that anything was done. I have more stories if you’d like.
As for teachers, I have 3 kids who have grown up in three different school districts across 2 states, as well as a couple of stints in private school. Guess what? Nearly all the teachers have been excellent, no matter where they were. The best have been in-gasp-PUBLIC school. The worst, at a private.
I HATE these threads, because I can’t think of another profession where it’s open season on the people who practice it. It makes perfect sense, reading the bashing to understand why so many teachers leave the profession. I worry for my daughter, who’s decided to become a teacher-facing parents day in and day out who think she’s slow-witted and in the job for the vacation time and are “disgusting”. And to think that teachers used to be revered.