Now Haggis...you're lucky that Birdwatcher is here. Otherwise, I would now be inclined to launch into one of my anti-schoolteacher diatribes.
Go ahead and launch. If the only way to defend the Brotherhood of Barney's is to attack on a tangent, go get 'em big guy.
Haggis, IF I launched into such a diatribe, it would only be to demonstrate how ignorant your portrait of the law enforcement culture is. I wouldn't paint teachers all the same color - except to make a point. And I would be sure to make that distinction. The "blue blood is thicker.." remark and those that followed can equally apply to teachers. It can also apply to my coworkers. So what? Any profession that faces similar hardship together - in the face of a lack of understanding from the general public - will adopt these attitudes to a certain degree. It's part of the survival instinct.
You expect any group that is attacked so much from in front and behind, above and below, to be any different?
-FreeMe
