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Teacher's have disgraced themselves and their career over the pandemic. It has become 100% clear they prioritise themselves and their own needs, not the student
by TapWaterBandit 4y ago
Teacher's have disgraced themselves and their career over the pandemic. It has become 100% clear they prioritise themselves and their own needs, not the students they supposedly fight for.
Teacher's unions are a weird beast as well, aren't unions supposed to be about about organising labour in the face of capital? But if schools are mainly run by the government then what is the labour-capital relationship here? Too often this just turns into mediocre ideological teachers making demands on tax payers with no real accountability.
I'm in Australia and the teachers here are already on excellent salaries but you'd never know it from the demands and entitlement they frequently show.
Education as a sector can't be disrupted quickly enough (and thankfully the internet is doing this and I expect by the end of the decade the new AI tools will have educational components that will outperform the average teacher).
- phone8675309 4y ago> It has become 100% clear they prioritise themselves and their own needs Imagine complaining that a worker prioritizes their own needs and calling that 'disgrace[ful]'.
- TapWaterBandit 4y agoIt is disgraceful when out the other side of their mouths every unreasonable demand they make is prefaced with "don't be selfish, give us what we want. What about the children?". They care about the kids only when it suits them to care.
- phone8675309 4y agoA person can care about more than one thing at a time - they can be concerned with both their own survival and the education of children.
- DerekL 4y ago> Teacher's have disgraced themselves… Should be “Teachers”. > Teacher's unions are a weird beast… Should be “Teachers'”. You should have listened to your teachers when they tried to teach this to you.
- TapWaterBandit 4y agoLol exactly my point. Only "value add" many teachers add is inconsequential grammar points that don't hurt comprehension in any case. Never seen so many midwits convinced they are indispensable as in the teaching profession. Technological disruption is coming hard and fast and good riddance.