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"Fault" is a tricky word here. Anyone going into teaching minors as a profession cannot be doing it for the money, because at no point in recent history have US
by KerrAvon 4y ago
"Fault" is a tricky word here. Anyone going into teaching minors as a profession cannot be doing it for the money, because at no point in recent history have US teachers been adequately paid, so they knew to some extent what they were getting into. But that certainly doesn't mean they're adequately paid or respected or that we shouldn't fix that.
> have a friend that could have worked on a cutting edge robotics team that stayed home and took a help desk job so he could live with his mom that is 88 years old and struggles to walk.
This is also pretty common. The US healthcare system could help here if it weren't an arbitrarily cruel profit center for billionaires. We need a real social safety net in this country.
- acuozzo 4y ago> Anyone going into teaching minors as a profession cannot be doing it for the money, because at no point in recent history have US teachers been adequately paid, so they knew to some extent what they were getting into. Indeed, but the economy is considerably worse now than it was and how observant one is does not seem to be determined by nurture. The teachers I had in elementary school in central NJ in the 1990s could all afford to lead pretty normal middle class lifestyles. I wouldn't say that they were thriving, but they certainly weren't just barely making ends meet. I wouldn't think less of a classmate of mine from that time if they went into teaching as a profession thinking it would now provide what it provided then.
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