Education

If the Los Angeles Times spent as much of its ink on articles about how parents should raise their children to succeed in life and in school as they do on bashing teachers because the children of negligent parents don't do well in school, teaching might be a rewarding profession.

But since the ink (and air time) spent not just by the LA Times but by most of the media on teacher critiques way outweighs the ink and air time spent on parent education, the teaching profession is less and less rewarding and hardly worth preparing for.

I would counsel any young person choosing a profession to think about 20 times before going into education. Hey! Nursing is hard work, but rewarding, I hear.