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Teachers make less than transit police

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@athousandyoung said
Donald Trump didn’t get rich laboring. Why should you have to do hard physical labor just to pay the rent and have a decent car?

This (my) country was founded by slave masters who got rich without laboring. You seem to admire those people and are constantly insulting the slaves who labored harder than anyone else ever has in this country. You are inconsistent.
libs and slavery…LOL. Tell lebron I said hay

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@mott-the-hoople said
libs and slavery…LOL. Tell lebron I said hay
😄

I call him LeBrown.


@mott-the-hoople said
libs and slavery…LOL. Tell lebron I said hay
I bet you labor real hard don’t you Joe Workingman?

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@wildgrass said
Being a police is not without risk, but you wrote that police are expected to die at a moment's notice presumably as a rationale for why transit officers should be paid more than teachers?

The job of police isn't in the top 15 of risky occupations, and this list does not correlate whatsoever with salary. So I guess I don't understand your point.
The list should in part correlate with salary.

Where are teachers on that list?

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@wildgrass said
I refer to "we" as in "We the people". Of course there's variance on an individual level.

We ask teachers to propaganda? Who does that?
The Texas government for one - and Texas has a bizarre grip on the schoolbook industry:

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/02/texas-race-history-schools/amp/

https://harvardpolitics.com/patriotic-education/


@mott-the-hoople said
libs and slavery…LOL. Tell lebron I said hay
I’m in no position to talk to a successful self made multimillionaire like LeBron James. Sorry can’t help you there.

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@athousandyoung said
The list should in part correlate with salary.

Where are teachers on that list?
Where are teachers on the list of lethally dangerous jobs? I have no idea.

Think about the highest paying jobs in capitalist systems. They require a lot of skill but in no way are they dangerous.

Salary of various jobs correlates a lot more with expectations and responsibility. CEOs get paid a lot of money because the job is extremely specialized and they bear a lot of responsibility. Teachers also have very specialized job descriptions and responsibility, and add on top of that the unreasonable expectations from every parent in their class that they teach the stuff the parent wants the kid to know. Its absurd that the job of teacher is paid less than the high-school educated transit cop who stands there silently at the train stop all day without incident.


@wildgrass said
Where are teachers on the list of lethally dangerous jobs? I have no idea.

Think about the highest paying jobs in capitalist systems. They require a lot of skill but in no way are they dangerous.

Salary of various jobs correlates a lot more with expectations and responsibility. CEOs get paid a lot of money because the job is extremely specialized and they bear a lot o ...[text shortened]... gh-school educated transit cop who stands there silently at the train stop all day without incident.
CEOs get paid a lot because they set their own pay. Their pay is not based on the value they add.


@wildgrass said
Think about the highest paying jobs in capitalist systems. They require a lot of skill
Do they?

Yeah, fair enough. I suppose bul*****ing is a skill.


@contenchess said
I call him LeBrown.
Because, of course you do.

You'd call Mandela "Mandingo" and Gandhi "Towelhee".


@shallow-blue said
Because, of course you do.

You'd call Mandela "Mandingo" and Gandhi "Towelhee".
Those are not the names I use but I see your point 😏


@contenchess said
Labour is hard.

Sitting at a desk and telling students to do their school work is not.
No wonder you are so
proud of all your days in 'lockup/
''Winners fail , far more often, than losers.
'Cause losers don't try.''


@jimm619

Homer Simpson is wise.


@wildgrass said
I refer to "we" as in "We the people". Of course there's variance on an individual level.

We ask teachers to propaganda? Who does that?
Republicans. That's why they think everyone does it.


@contenchess said
@AThousandYoung

I said Teachers are over paid prima donnas who basically just sit there while American students fail and you start talking about some slaves from 200 years ago?

If you're going to hang onto tyrones nuts please do it in private and don't share it here 🙄
This sounds alarmingly Trumpist.