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It's that time a year...poor downtrodden teachers

MikeDamone
MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
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Their salaries/benefits are online for all to see. Great pay and benefits with a lot of time off (also they need to stop with the bullshit about how hard they have to work all summer and that it's not paid).

Just yesterday I chatted with a teacher and his also teacher wife who retired a couple of years ago. They said they are really enjoying the summer at the second home on Hood Canal.

Credit the teachers union for an excellent job keeping the narrative alive to the point you'll be met with scorn to even question it.
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  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 18,011 Standard Supporter
    The ugly truth is that teaching, even in "good" school districts, is a sh*tty job. With no ability to enforce classroom discipline the teacher is at the mercy of whether they get a monster/monsters in their class that make it impossible to actually teach. If you want to teach and you are good at it, your seeking out a private school. That just pisses off the dazzler who supports an orderly classroom, it is just not a voting issue for him.
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,787 Standard Supporter
    If you're entrenched in the system with seniority, cushiest job known to man. Impossible to fire a union teacher.

    Feel bad for the youngsters just getting started as teachers. They are still naive to the scam and actually think they can help kids.

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  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 18,011 Standard Supporter
    PurpleThrobber said:

    If you're entrenched in the system with seniority, cushiest job known to man. Impossible to fire a union teacher.

    Feel bad for the youngsters just getting started as teachers. They are still naive to the scam and actually think they can help kids.

    If you don't give a phuck about children and like being an incompetent drone, then a tenured teacher is the way to go. I worked summers as a member of the International Brotherhood of Chemical Workers while in college and law school. Just a soul sucking job that paid me more than I got my first year out of law school with a Big 8 accounting firm. The union spent a ton of time protecting the bottom 10% of the workers. Some great guys worked there. A lot of veterans. Worked with a vet who flew a Huey in Vietnam and was shot through his thigh. Asked him why he wasn't flying copters in the US instead of working as a drone. Said he couldn't stand the thought of flying. PTSD. Plant is now gone.
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  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    edited August 2022
    Also, no one seems to care that millwrights, mechanics and carpenters have to buy their own tools. I haven't seen a tool supply drive sponsored by the local news like they have every year for school supplies. And why did kids need a new pack pack every year? Why do they need one at all? When did backpacks for kindergarteners become a thing?
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  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 18,011 Standard Supporter
    Don't worry, JBH will be working hard on tuition vouchers for private schools. She is feared by the teacher unions. It's in all her ads.
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  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    jecornel said:

    Teachers simply teach a standardized test. It’s a fucking joke. They can’t go outside the curriculum at all. Here kids read this text and take a test. Oh and Friday is movie day.

    I’m hearing they have to spend all summer doing lesson plans…staff? True?
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  • 46XiJCAB
    46XiJCAB Member Posts: 20,967
    Kids know who the shitty teachers are because they talk about them to peers and parents alike.

    But there really is nothing that can be done to discipline them. Retirement is the only remedy.
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