this is my letter to the editor in response to Jeff Corbett's dump on teachers last Saturday. The Herald refused to publish. Corbett obviously has carte blanche to dis gays, Aboriginals and women but they don't like it when people dump on him.
The editor
Dear Sir,
Jeff Corbett takes teachers to task for their exorbitant pay, their hours of work and their holidays (IN A CLASS OF THEIR OWN 28/4). Upon reading this column the words pot and kettle came to mind. Here we have a columnist who spends an hour, maybe two, each day putting on paper thought bubbles he’s composed based upon his prejudices: gays, women, Aborigines (oh and chooks and bread). Corbett criticises teachers for their holidays. Ever noticed that Corbett’s work regime includes lots of breaks when someone else fills in for his column? And guess what. Those absences correspond coincidentally with the school holidays!! And Jeff is not going to share with us the details of his salary but I suspect he won’t be in a hurry to swap his salary for a teacher’s. So when it comes to Jeff’s feigned outrage it appears that hypocrisy is trumps. The emperor has no clothes.
