This is going to piss off some people.
To me, the TYPICAL elementary school teacher was mommy's darling until kindergarten school followed by elementary school, high school, university school and teachers school. They typically get to rule a bunch of impressionable snot spreaders who think Miss Wombat is an angel. Teachers huddle together and max out their self serving lives, supported by unions. Where there is no competition (The civil service) the powers of unions should be very limited. If you're not typical disregard the criticism.
In the real world of working people if your plumbing job doesn't pay enough you become an electrician or vice versa.
A lot of educated snobs like to put down the trades because they have dirt under their fingernails. Most of the snobs live in decent houses or condos. If it wasn't for steel workers, plumbers, electricians, carpenters they'd be living in a buffalo skin teepee. If they were PETA they's be sleeping in a hollow log.
I am fortunate in that I have had old school teachers that went the extra yard for me but a few decades back when my daughter came home and asked me to to call my counsellor because Miss Wombat pushed her agenda on her I saw red.
One of the old time teachers I knew was embarrassed to walk a picket line, acting like a thug.
The conundrum is that to get responsible people for the humanities (Teachers, cops, nurses, etc) you have to pay them wages that enable them to be responsible to their families. However an attractive wage / work package also attracts those that relish every vacation day in the year and juvenile fan club.
What ever happened to the dignity of labour, humility, social responsibility, politicians with guts?
To me, the TYPICAL elementary school teacher was mommy's darling until kindergarten school followed by elementary school, high school, university school and teachers school. They typically get to rule a bunch of impressionable snot spreaders who think Miss Wombat is an angel. Teachers huddle together and max out their self serving lives, supported by unions. Where there is no competition (The civil service) the powers of unions should be very limited. If you're not typical disregard the criticism.
In the real world of working people if your plumbing job doesn't pay enough you become an electrician or vice versa.
A lot of educated snobs like to put down the trades because they have dirt under their fingernails. Most of the snobs live in decent houses or condos. If it wasn't for steel workers, plumbers, electricians, carpenters they'd be living in a buffalo skin teepee. If they were PETA they's be sleeping in a hollow log.
I am fortunate in that I have had old school teachers that went the extra yard for me but a few decades back when my daughter came home and asked me to to call my counsellor because Miss Wombat pushed her agenda on her I saw red.
One of the old time teachers I knew was embarrassed to walk a picket line, acting like a thug.
The conundrum is that to get responsible people for the humanities (Teachers, cops, nurses, etc) you have to pay them wages that enable them to be responsible to their families. However an attractive wage / work package also attracts those that relish every vacation day in the year and juvenile fan club.
What ever happened to the dignity of labour, humility, social responsibility, politicians with guts?