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Originally Posted by GullFoss
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Do you want Alberta to be a province that has teachers come to in order to teach?
Or do you want Alberta to be a province that teachers leave in order to teach?
Do you want intelligent, critical thinking youth to aspire to be teachers?
Or do you want intelligent, critical thinking youth to eschew the idea of being teachers when "other professions" pay just as well?
Teachers are one of the most important parts of a (democratic future-forward) society. They're highly educated (most have at least one post secondary degree, many have two), they double as babysitters for most working adults, they work countless hours outside of "school hours" grading papers and preparing lessons, and on top of all that, they have to build a working relationship with not one, but every single one of their students in order to help them succeed in the grand scheme of life.
Education isn't your typical person's corporate gig where you just sit in meetings all day while secretly browsing Calgarypuck or Reddit, while being mentally checked out of anything that doesn't involve your year end bonus, knowing full well that your only real contribution to society is as a cog in the system helping some millionaires get even bigger year end bonuses.
Education is an essential service. And the UCP want to defund it, because that's the conservative playbook.
Peter Lougheed's Alberta is one where Teachers from Ontario, Quebec, BC, Europe... they want to come here to teach because it's worth it for so many reasons, including their ability to make a livelihood.
Danielle Smith's Alberta is one where Teachers from Alberta... they want to stop teaching unless a private school hires them because it's just another job they stumbled across.
Beyond that, that's not even a lot of money. Those are Canadian dollars. The top end of that scale is 86k USD. That's basically an AHL rookie salary.
We should be inspired by striking teachers. Most jobs underpay workers who don't jump ship every other year. When really, those kind of pay structures should be standard at most jobs