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		tekacs on May 28, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Teacher under fire for informing kids of their Fif... *are equally dangerous and have the potential to be as harmful as one another.

HarryHirsch on May 28, 2013 [–]

No. Incompetence isn't potentially harmful, it is invariably harmful. It creates environments with a slavish adherence to protocol unsuitable for purpose. If you are sufficiently old you have seen workplaces like that and if you have any sense of purpose you got out of them as fast as you could.

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