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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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Florida's approach was just to give anyone with a police or military background a teaching license.
They won't up teacher pay. They'll just hire shittier teachers because the primary highlight of public education is that it is free daycare for their exhausted, working parents.
In their eyes. That doesn't make it true. Education is, and should be treated as, the backbone of society.
Oh, I'm a teacher by trade. You needn't convince me of the merits of my job.
That point was meant to underline that the most bankable benefit of public education in the eyes of the American public is having the security of knowing their kids will be cared for free somewhere during (most) of their working hours. People are fucking exhausted from work, stress, and fear, robbing them of the potential of seeing it as much else.
Oklahoma is doing the same. My first year I was teaching the other “teachers” the material they were expected to teach students.