yawn wrote:
Look at Florida or Texas taxes vs California. Then we can talk clown
I'm sorry but I don't talk "clown". Sounds like a dialect for right-wingers, qAnon, and Trumpers.
yawn wrote:
Look at Florida or Texas taxes vs California. Then we can talk clown
I'm sorry but I don't talk "clown". Sounds like a dialect for right-wingers, qAnon, and Trumpers.
upthewazzu wrote:
yawn wrote:
Look at Florida or Texas taxes vs California. Then we can talk clown
I'm sorry but I don't talk "clown". Sounds like a dialect for right-wingers, qAnon, and Trumpers.
Typical half-wit. Still talking about trump and not acknowledging economic facts.
According to the Unified Teachers Los Angeles union, their members will not return to work until the following demands are met:
Paraphrasing Here
Police Are Defunded, including dissolving the Los Angeles School Police Department
There is a "moratorium" on charter schools
Taxes are increased on the wealthy
Implementing Medicare for all
Passing the HEROS Act
*some* not all Teachers Unions are using children as political pawns, and the longer kids are out of class, the further inequities in education will become apparent. It's abhorrent and will be interesting if this expenditure of political capital will become due in the midterms.
Get the kids in school.
AnotherSquid wrote:
According to the Unified Teachers Los Angeles union, their members will not return to work until the following demands are met:
Paraphrasing Here
Police Are Defunded, including dissolving the Los Angeles School Police Department
There is a "moratorium" on charter schools
Taxes are increased on the wealthy
Implementing Medicare for all
Passing the HEROS Act
*some* not all Teachers Unions are using children as political pawns, and the longer kids are out of class, the further inequities in education will become apparent. It's abhorrent and will be interesting if this expenditure of political capital will become due in the midterms.
Get the kids in school.
These are their demands? Disgusting.
Teachers unions have worked to destroy local control of education, subvert standards, prevent teacher accountability, and deny parents a significant voice in their children’s education.
The Centers for Disease Control has said that schools can be safely reopened while maintaining social distancing of as little as three feet.
A great many people have worked throughout this terrible episode of COVID, many at some considerable personal risk, and not only doctors, nurses, and ambulance drivers but also grocery clerks, warehouse workers, and taxi drivers.
But NOT teachers (unions)
creeps wrote:
and another coach wrote:
Here's a thought: maybe actually treat teachers a little better and be willing to pay them more and maybe, maybe, you'll see more quality teachers. You think most teachers are sticking around to deal with your bleep hole kids only to be treated the way some in this thread treat them? ha ha ha.
Six figures
Top class benefits
8 months of work per year
Pension
What else do they need?
How about people like you who actually know what most teachers make and what most teachers have to deal with.Teaching today is significantly harder than it was 20 years ago. Parents are the biggest issue as it’s become next to impossible to properly discipline, and thus teach their bratty kids.
* wrote:
It's not the kids that makes the job hard or unpleasant.
It's the parents and the administrators.
The adults.
+1
I'm a teacher in NY State (Upstate)- I never stopped working. Teaching remote was much more difficult and time consuming than regular teaching.
Teaching hybrid is more difficult and time consuming than fully remote.
Been teaching in person since Labor day. People need to stop thinking that everything they see on youtube and fox news is nation-wide.
runn wrote:
I'm a teacher in NY State (Upstate)- I never stopped working. Teaching remote was much more difficult and time consuming than regular teaching.
Teaching hybrid is more difficult and time consuming than fully remote.
Like this Guy, my wife has been teaching in person since august, with kids zooming in. Much more time involved in teaching both online and in-person simultaneously. She puts in 60+ hours a week but gets paid for 35, Many teachers work off the clock.
Teachers' unions are feeling the pressure and getting defensive. In Washington state, where I live, they have employed different strategies to keep remote learning in place. It's growing tiresome.
In Puyallup, south of Seattle, the teachers' union president tried guilt, with ominous declarations that students and teachers would quite literally die if they returned to the classroom.
https://www.newsweek.com/end-blind-loyalty-teachers-unions-get-kids-back-school-opinion-1567608
runn wrote:
I'm a teacher in NY State (Upstate)- I never stopped working. Teaching remote was much more difficult and time consuming than regular teaching.
Teaching hybrid is more difficult and time consuming than fully remote.
I don't know if it was more difficult and it definitely wasn't more time consuming (no commute), but it is an entirely different ballgame especially for those of us who have been teaching for a while and aren't tech-wizards.
To be evaluated as a remote teacher when you've been in the classroom for 10+ years isn't a true evaluation of your skills as a teacher.
While I get why many are upset that teachers have been home for a significant portion of the past 13+ months, they really underestimate how much teachers really want to be in the classroom as opposed to this nonsense.
And I've been posting this since the beginning
I mean, dude is on a rampage on this thread but you do understand that Dems have been winning the popular vote in national elections right? Spin it however you want but maybe a lot of people work in this country for starvation wages and don't think the solution to that is tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.
"Trump won categories above $50k, only poor people vote blue, etc." Maybe most Americans are poor even if they don't want to admit it. Even someone making $100k+/year has more in common with someone making minimum wage than the super rich but the super rich spend money to cause divide and make us think that we need to be better than one another and that anybody can become rich even though you're likely to end up in whatever wealth bracket you're born into.
It's not even worth it with someone spamming a thread meant to denigrate teachers but the 50th percentile for household income is around 75k. Do with that what you will.
"maybe a lot of people work in this country for starvation wages."
They are called D E M O C R A T S
Republicans don't have that problem. I have not made minimum wage since I was 16! Apparently, a lot of grown progressive men are still on it. Hey, can you tell me about your degree again! Apparently the democrats have all the college degrees.......
They just need their loans paid off and JOB (Not a big demand for Gender Studies Majors).
Why do democrats have a hard time wining over middle class voters?
Hillary Clinton won by 12 points among voters making less than $30,000 a year—53% to Trump’s 41% —and by 9 points among people making between $30,000 and $49,999. Trump’s support was the inverse. He won every group making $50,000 or more
NERunner00053 wrote:
I mean, dude is on a rampage on this thread but you do understand that Dems have been winning the popular vote in national elections right? Spin it however you want but maybe a lot of people work in this country for starvation wages and don't think the solution to that is tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.
"Trump won categories above $50k, only poor people vote blue, etc." Maybe most Americans are poor even if they don't want to admit it. Even someone making $100k+/year has more in common with someone making minimum wage than the super rich but the super rich spend money to cause divide and make us think that we need to be better than one another and that anybody can become rich even though you're likely to end up in whatever wealth bracket you're born into.
It's not even worth it with someone spamming a thread meant to denigrate teachers but the 50th percentile for household income is around 75k. Do with that what you will.
Besides being filled with inaccuracies, if you struggle while making over 100k, that means you deserve to suffer (weird situations like medical emergencies like cancer aside).
The country just blew trillions on a bailout mostly for schools. Teachers need to reel in their unions or they will be blamed for being lazy.
yawn wrote:
Teachers need to reel in their unions or they will be blamed for being lazy.
lol. Yeah, because that's our job. To tell our union to STOP fighting for us.
Hmm. What would I rather have: job protection by my union OR the respect of countless nameless, faceless dopes on the internet. Tough call!
I am a high school teacher at a large district in Iowa. I have been teaching in person since August 23rd. We didn't start to get vaccinated here until the beginning of March. Most of us have around 30 students per class (6 to 7 classes per day). My situation is not unique.
One other thing, at least 27 school employees (majority teachers) have died from COVID-19 and many of us have had it - and have gotten it in school (which is my case). It has been a tough year.
Guess I am lazy wrote:
One other thing, at least 27 school employees (majority teachers) have died from COVID-19 and many of us have had it - and have gotten it in school (which is my case). It has been a tough year.
We had less than 500 COVID deaths yesterday. I don't think people are going to put up with the unions that are holding out for much longer, certainly not by the fall if the current trend continues.
FYI, teachers have been working since the start of COVID. In person child care and rearing has not been provided during this time. Also, LAUSD teachers are going back to in person learning in a week and a half. Many other districts throughout California are doing same but LAUSD gets the heat because it’s California and a large urban district.
Most of the trolls on here are terrible debaters who use faulty logic with factually incorrect evidence. Of course, these fake “conservative” morans will blame teachers or own parents for their lack of intellectual capacity instead of taking personal responsibility.