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My wife is a teacher in PR. She is paying her pension but knkws wont be able to use it. This is the cherry on top of an education system that has me paying for
by pryelluw 10y ago
My wife is a teacher in PR. She is paying her pension but knkws wont be able to use it. This is the cherry on top of an education system that has me paying for the costs of running her classroom and even the cost of her students' materials costs. I do it for the kids, so that they have a betyer chance in life. But damn how it hurts to see politicians and department officials walk around with millions in their pockets while I spend my heard earned money (that has been taxed) on things they should be making sure are provided. How thry expect schools to work without paper, pencils, toilet paper, light bulbs, or books is beyond me.
And now, well, they are looking for ways to cut costs and benefits to teachers. Fucking assholes.
- javiramos 10y agoPuerto Rican here. Are you based in Puerto Rico? We should organize a HN meetup in the island.
- noonespecial 10y ago>How thry expect schools to work without paper, pencils, toilet paper, light bulbs, or books is beyond me. They don't. Somewhere along the line, they noticed that if they don't provide these things, teachers and parents would do it out of their own pockets because they care about the children. They realized that they could consume the latent altruism of the moral stakeholders for their own enrichment.
- pryelluw 10y agoFood for thought Most teachers in my wife's school do not buy any materials and do without. They go all year with the initial batch of materials the department sends them (which is a small quantity). I used to work in EdTech and the situation in many other states is similar. In fact, I know certain big companies who will not even give some districts the time of day because they know any time spent there is wasted. That's how the next generation is being educated.