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Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle
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.
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Again, it seems that the people you consort with are quite simple. As a highly competent teacher with 2 degrees who does not work for the Union nor is protected in any way by it, I too dislike free riding loafs that drag down the system. But my work environment is such that I don't really ever see them. I hear stories though...
Anyhow, if your salary terms were laid out by a collectively bargained and legally binding contract, you would decide to donate $20,000 to the government? I'm just curious since it seems there is sentiment in this thread that people should do that. I'm even open to a market based adjustment based on some contingencies, but it is not on teachers to headman and frankly I think that there is derision in this thread based on anecdotal or even made-up narratives.