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Sure, but when there’s zero repercussions to a frivolous lawsuit, there’s likely to be a frivolous lawsuit. If a parent can easily lie and try and extort money,

Sure, but when there’s zero repercussions to a frivolous lawsuit, there’s likely to be a frivolous lawsuit. If a parent can easily lie and try and extort money, it can still be an awful, expensive, exhausting process for my wife. Even if it doesn’t cost us any money directly (which to be completely honest I don’t buy), there’s still the exhausting and awful process of having to defend herself in court. Edit: I would also like to point out that even if you were right on the technicalities, you understand why this would be an immensely unappealing thing for a prospective teacher. It would be much easier to simply move to a state that doesn’t have a vague, poorly defined, conspiratorial law that is likely to make our lives unpleasant.

ghufran_syed 4y ago
that makes sense - in my line of work, lawsuits are an occupational hazard, I imagine it should not be the case for teachers! But I also think both that it’s easy to overstate the risk of some of these things and it would completely suck to be on the receiving end It’ll be interesting to see if the pay rate generally goes up for teachers in florida if they end up with many other teachers making that same decision
skissane 4y ago
> you understand why this would be an immensely unappealing thing for a prospective teacher Does how it is experienced depend on which “tribe” the teacher is more aligned with? I imagine a teacher who feels closer to the “blue tribe” is going to experience this as an attack on them and their profession, while a “red tribe” teacher is more likely to feel that the target is someone other than them, and may even agree with the law (or at least the intention behind it). I know US teachers (and public school especially) tend to skew more “blue” than “red”, but I think the latter group are likely a larger percentage of them than many would think, especially in “red states”.
- ModernMech 4y ago
  When the anti-woke mobs come for teachers, they won’t care about their political affiliations. Leopards eat all faces.
- tombert 4y ago
  The thing that concerns me is that there’s very little consequence for outright lying. Even if we did buy into the groomer conspiracies and play everything exactly how Ron Desantis wanted, that won’t necessarily stop an unscrupulous parent from just outright lying and making our lives difficult. I don’t think a majority of parents would do that (conservative or otherwise), but all it really takes is one to make our lives frustrating.

ghufran_syed 4y ago

that makes sense - in my line of work, lawsuits are an occupational hazard, I imagine it should not be the case for teachers! But I also think both that it’s easy to overstate the risk of some of these things and it would completely suck to be on the receiving end It’ll be interesting to see if the pay rate generally goes up for teachers in florida if they end up with many other teachers making that same decision

skissane 4y ago

> you understand why this would be an immensely unappealing thing for a prospective teacher Does how it is experienced depend on which “tribe” the teacher is more aligned with? I imagine a teacher who feels closer to the “blue tribe” is going to experience this as an attack on them and their profession, while a “red tribe” teacher is more likely to feel that the target is someone other than them, and may even agree with the law (or at least the intention behind it). I know US teachers (and public school especially) tend to skew more “blue” than “red”, but I think the latter group are likely a larger percentage of them than many would think, especially in “red states”.

ModernMech 4y ago
When the anti-woke mobs come for teachers, they won’t care about their political affiliations. Leopards eat all faces.
tombert 4y ago
The thing that concerns me is that there’s very little consequence for outright lying. Even if we did buy into the groomer conspiracies and play everything exactly how Ron Desantis wanted, that won’t necessarily stop an unscrupulous parent from just outright lying and making our lives difficult. I don’t think a majority of parents would do that (conservative or otherwise), but all it really takes is one to make our lives frustrating.