> We expect a girl making minimum wage at Kroger to accept that she is an essential worker. Why do we not expect the same from school staff? I wish that as a s

> We expect a girl making minimum wage at Kroger to accept that she is an essential worker. Why do we not expect the same from school staff? I wish that as a society we could decide that anyone we're going to call an "essential worker" and draft to the biohazardous front lines should bloody well be paid at least as much as the rest of us who can be gone for a week with little ill effect to society at large. Not just during an emergency either - they're essential the rest of the time too.