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Some interesting comments about nurses, I overlap with them as little as I possibly can and (here in the UK) it’d be fare to say that some have an inflated view of their importance and knowledge base - though to be fair there are many different responsibility levels in our Hospitals - whilst others do care but are pretty much emotionally exhaust.

Here’s a straw poll of experience. A young pal in the Band worked as a health care assistant (the lowest level of nursing care ‘rank’) during Covid, prior to that they worked on a children’s ward but that got closed and now they work as a district (traveling) nurse. At the end of Covid she ended up needing and having counselling - physically exhausted and destabilised by all they had seen and done … don’t ask about the deaths, and deaths and deaths. Whilst out walking the dog I struck up conversation with an older local guy who is also a nurse, he confirmed that hospital staff had ‘been through the mill’, on one shift he left 32 patients and when he returned 12 hours later only 8 were still alive. Someone had a very stressful night and the guy was shocked to loose 24 people that he’d help care for - they were individuals and not numbers.

There’s probably a lot of difference between the USA and here but here nurses usually aren’t well paid and people exit the profession to be replaced - if we can attract them - by overseas staff from 3rd world countries. It doesn’t help that they work 12 hour shifts and antisocial hours (nights, weekends and bank-holidays). Get out of hours care by a plumber and be prepared for them to demand an eye watering rate of pay, a nurse (working at the first level above health care assistant) doing those same hours gets paid a tiny fraction of what the plumber demands and needs an academic degree plus practical training.

I tend to believe that most people who send their children off to school mostly are interested in having someone else be responsible for them, while they themselves go off to work.

I tend to believe that those who ardently teach their own children are those who really care the most about their children.

There are some who do both, but there's the factor that enters in having to unteach at home things that are taught at school which are not so.

Arguably, the most valuable things that are offered at schools are things like band and physical education where there aren't really any strong anti-truth or political agendas involved, though they are creeping into physical education - as we've seen in claims of who is actually whom, when competition is involved.