It sounds like your full position is more reasonable (except supporting an obvious attack on the salaries of all teachers under the name of "performance related pay").

That being the case, you should be very careful that your flippant comments don't support ongoing attacks on teachers pay and working conditions when you don't really mean it.

You do it again by implying that a sizeable proportion of your teachers were alcoholics. I have no doubt that there are some teachers who suck at teaching and even some who sneak off in the middle of a lesson to get pissed, but I can't believe that this is anything other than a tiny minority. Both of your posts imply otherwise. There is a battle going on right now in education, and every flippant comment you make that supports the idea that a sizeable portion of teachers are "terrible" makes it that little bit less likely for the government to see any resistance to a program of further slashing of school budgets, forcing teachers to work (even) longer hours for lower pay, and extending teacher retirement age until they drop dead on the job.

We can get back to the original topic now.