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My parents were both teachers.

A significant trunk of my classmates went into teaching after college. We keep in touch.

The above comment is accurate.

Clarifying my ambiguous response: "Above comment" refers to "most teachers are jobsworths that don't care about their students".

Not a nice day to be your parents or friend :D

They agree with me.

Which "above comment"?

yes.

The previous comments are not logically equivalent, (bitwise AND) have the same truth value.

"Above" typically means above in thread, i.e. "parent", i.e. the post/comment one replies to.

I agree it is fully ambiguous as to which above refers in this case.

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