What Is This Teaching Our Kids?
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (69015)
United States
March 13, 2019 8:46am CST
Today marks the fifth "sick-out" for our city schools in the past month. The teachers are "calling in sick" in such great numbers that the school system closes because there aren't enough teacher or substitutes to cover it.
But what is this teaching our children?
These teachers aren't sick, except maybe sick of their pay. And I get that: in this hillbilly's humble opinion teachers should be making the kind of money Bryce Harper just signed for, and he should be living on $50K a year.
But here's the message: they aren't "sick," they're lying. And that lesson is being transferred to their students, probably louder than any English or Science lesson. They "call in sick," then suddenly get well enough to drive to Frankfort (the state capital, about 50 miles away) to spend the day protesting.
Lie to get what you want. Great lesson, teachers.
I wish they'd just go on strike. That's far more honest.
A great song, and appropriate: you can't depend on your teacher, and you can't depend on politicians:
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
13 Mar 19
The average teacher salary in California is $74,190 to $77,990 for working only part of the year and they strike every two seconds for more. They make much more money than the vast majority of the population here. That's over $35 an hour if they worked 52 40 hour weeks which they don't and yet they poor mouth like they are working fast food at $15 hourly.
Athletes and entertainers are obscenely paid but we contribute by going to see them or watching them.
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
2 Apr 19
@TheHorse I take it that you don't do the trick of having students grading test papers in class which was the norm even in the dark ages when I was in HS. Or passing work to a college TA? And you create a fresh lesson plan each semester rather than rotating already set plans? Even if you do five classes a day that leaves three hours for other work to match a typical worker's day. I am playing devil's advocate here.
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@erictsuma (9726)
• Mombasa, Kenya
14 Mar 19
Teachers normally strike due to less pay but students are the ones who are losing.
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@FourWalls (69015)
• United States
14 Mar 19
In our case, the ACT college test had to be rescheduled for all the students who were supposed to take the test this week. And the teachers aren’t getting what they want, so it’s all for naught.
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
14 Mar 19
the teachers up here strike every year-right before school opens.
man,i wish i could pull that move at a 70K job.
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@Fleura (30541)
• United Kingdom
14 Mar 19
Funnily enough I've been thinking recently about something similar. So many times when I read biographical tales of successful people, they got their first break by lying about something - maybe their age, maybe their qualifications, maybe their experience or the fact they knew how to do sonething they really had no clue about. Honesty does not seem to be the best policy.
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@FourWalls (69015)
• United States
2 Apr 19
A friend is a teacher, and she said she disapproved of the teachers’ actions, saying that’s what she paid union dues for: for the UNION to negotiate!
@arunima25 (87854)
• Bangalore, India
28 May 19
I think this is a global issue that our teachers at primary and elementary level are not paid well. But definitely this is not the way to sort out the issue. They send wrong messages to their students who hold them as their role model.
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@SophiaMorros (5044)
• Belews Creek, North Carolina
13 Mar 19
I agree with you. They are setting a terrible example.
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@Coffeeman970 (33)
• Christiansted, Virgin Islands (U.S.)
13 Mar 19
It's not a good example at all.
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