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I don't think he resents them as much as he just realizes that he had mistaken assumptions. He heard that teachers often pay for their own supplies, but what
by mnutt 15y ago
I don't think he resents them as much as he just realizes that he had mistaken assumptions. He heard that teachers often pay for their own supplies, but what he didn't know was that teachers hate doing it.
- studiofellow 15y agoExactly.
- studiofellow 15y agoSorry, still learning the HN ground rules. No more one word comments.
- pbhjpbhj 15y agoSorry but one word comments are the only way no to indicate assent quickly, if you upvote it's useless except as an indicator the commenter and even then they don't know it was you who upvoted. FWIW I think that your comment was fine, showed that you agreed. The "ground rules" were set and worked on an earlier version. Your comment added information that was unavailable to us.
- studiofellow 15y agoThanks for the clarification. Appreciate it.
- jacobolus 15y agoHe says they have a “warped sense of value” and a “sense of entitlement”, and that teachers’ claimed love of tech is a “farce”. I don’t know if he “resents” them or not, but it’s a pretty insulting tone he takes. Teachers don’t hate spending money on school supplies because they’re somehow unique: everyone on a fixed salary hates spending their own money on stuff that is absolutely necessary to their jobs and should be provided by their employers, especially ones who feel underpaid and disrespected in general. You can bet that if you forced (for example) salaried programmers to pay for their own chairs and their own company email accounts, or forced salaried graphic designers to pay for their companies’ font licenses and stock photos that there’d be plenty of grumbling and resentment about it.
- smoyer 15y ago"teachers’ claimed love of tech is a farce” I've seen this one many times.