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Originally Posted by Major Major
So far the most powerful arguments against teachers (don't know why discussion about teachers frequently turns into us vs. Them...) is that people have annoying friends. This is a personal problem, easily fixed. It's definitely not a teacher problem.
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No the problem is that everyone can name a friend or two that went into teaching for all the wrong reasons, and they are part of a system with no accountability which has the potential to create a train wreck as a result.
I think it's more prevalent today then it was in the past, and I think it's magnified in Alberta, because let's be honest, our school system is full of quite a few people that weren't the pick of the litter coming out of University. Couldn't get jobs in their home Provinces, and moved out here only as a last resort.
That's getting away from my point though, which is that teacher's don't do themselves any favours in the court of public opinion by the comments they make and their constant griping. Everyone else is faces the same pressures they do in every other profession, it just manifests itself in different forms.
One of the most idiotic arguments I hear frequently from teachers/nurses/AHS is that they shouldn't be subject to any rollback or any type of cuts while the private sector suffers because they've never benefited from oil and gas sector like the private sector has. Are they friggen' serious? They are the highest paid in the country. My wife makes probably 30K a year more here than she would in the Maritimes, and 20K more than she would in Ontario.