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In my career as a teacher I started out being what I now consider to be a complete unreasonable prick. I would assign work over the vacation as well as frown upon parent/student chosen off days. I wouldn't even give any consideration to cuts of class when the student was having personal problems (think like crying in the bathroom, family crisis, had to work, didn't have child care - yes, I've had teen parents as students, etc). I still shudder when I think that I was that awful person.

Like everything else in life I lived and I learned. I now ENCOURAGE IF NOT DEMAND students to take a day off and I tell their parents explicitly "If adults can give themselves a day off why can't kids if they're not up to it?". I realized that there is nothing going on in my classroom that is more important than the lives that they live. The entire concept of giving school work over a break is so ludicrous to me now! It's called a "break" for a fucking reason (plus HW of ANY kind has ZERO discernable statistical difference in grades, retention, class satisfaction, etc).

After 3 consecutive championship titles, the U. S. failed last night to advance to the CONCACAF Nation's League final, igniting criticsm from fans online about whether Poccitino is fit for the job.

Some factors boil down to players from European clubs being jet lagged as well as the schedule change, as the final is usually held during the summer, as well as the US team having too long of a break in between games.

But Poccitino's starting line up, substitutions and strategy is also questionable, especially after he went back on his promise of not starting players who get little to no field time in club matches.

The U. S. had bad luck throughout the last decade with coaching and failing to reach major finals and once even failing to qualify for the World Cup.

And with the Gold Cup coming up this year and the World Cup coming up next year, should the U. S. not take any chances and just replace him now, or should they wait to see how we do in the Gold Cup?

The U. S. has historically had the best results with American coaches