I can't believe Sliver successfully started another of the same teacher discussion we've done dozens of times. Please not here, guys, our provincial politics thread is super important right now. I (and I assume many) are coming here for updates on the biggest threat to our province in a long time.
I mean I get the sentiment of this not getting super off topic and there are other threads to go bitch about teachers but at the same time, I don’t think anybody clicking on this thread over the last year or two has learned much politically, or is changing their minds on anything. Like, seriously. Look at the quality of this thread and other politics threads now compared to like 3-5 years ago… it isn’t close.
We get it, UCP suck at everything, everyone should go vote NDP, that’s pretty much it isn’t it? Like what is there to really discuss here?
So having said that I don’t see the value in policing what people talk about really. Just my opinion. This thread and the federal one and basically the off topic forum generally has really done a great job of chasing off differing opinions regardless of if they are presented respectfully or not. Understood this won’t be popular and will go against THE AGENDA (tm) of the cool kid club on CP which ruined the website but it is what it is.
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Seems to me funding an already divisive policy with money that was earmarked for the Heritage Fund is a way to only further alienate you from the voter base you’re trying to keep.
Imagine all the fixes you could build for healthcare, community care, elder care, increased education numbers for HCW....with $2.8 billion. Instead it's going to buy votes. Thanks, Danielle.
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Imagine all the fixes you could build for healthcare, community care, elder care, increased education numbers for HCW....with $2.8 billion. Instead it's going to buy votes. Thanks, Danielle.
Teachers at the top of the grid (10 years experience & 6 years of University education) make $103,111 in the CBE. So it's not outside the realm of possibility that a family with two teachers brings in $200k, especially if one of them is in Administration. A Principal at a large school makes $149,488. I bet a family with two full-time teachers is easily in the 90th to 95th percentile of household income in Alberta.
It's a tough job with good pay, excellent benefits, and a guaranteed inflation-protected defined benefit pension. You'll never catch me complaining about the pay - I think teachers are compensated very well.
Teachers at the top of the grid (10 years experience & 6 years of University education) make $103,111 in the CBE. So it's not outside the realm of possibility that a family with two teachers brings in $200k, especially if one of them is in Administration. A Principal at a large school makes $149,488. I bet a family with two full-time teachers is easily in the 90th to 95th percentile of household income in Alberta.
It's a tough job with good pay, excellent benefits, and a guaranteed inflation-protected defined benefit pension. You'll never catch me complaining about the pay - I think teachers are compensated very well.
I think you’d be surprised at the amount of jobs that make $100k
Banning schools from individually implementing mask mandates is correct. They do not have the expertise to make these decisions. Conditions for masking in schools should be developed by the health system and recommendations rolled out to schools.
Now Smith isn’t going to have the CMOH set out sciences based guidelines or policies for districts so that is where she is failing.
I'm sure there will be some more brilliant COVID policy. Here's some incoherent ramblings from Paul Alexander, who Smith wants to advise Alberta on COVID policy:
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You Francis Collins, Bourla, Fauci, Bancel, Walensky et al. cannot be this stupid to continue with this failed vaccine especially the failed bivalent booster that would have become a mismatch to the antigen. It has. Then is there malfeasance? We need to know.
Again, go ask Rochelle[CDC Director], and so they have created the landscape to keep vaccinating and you on the booster treadmill the rest of their lives. You will need a booster IV bag drip next. 24/7 boosting.
The question is, where is the uncensored scholarly debate on this, this that is happening right before our eyes? Where are the virologists and immunologists and vaccinologists? Why leave it to novice immune and virology scientists like me? Why are you silent and only expert scientists like Bridle and Vanden Bossche are left to raise concerns. Why? What were you paid for your silence?
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The COVID gene injections has failed and I argue always did and NEVER ever worked. You have to explain to me how you removed the impact of natural immunity and early treatment in the data as well as how you controlled for co-morbidities and the healthy vaccinee effect.
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We either stop the vaccine or reduce the infectious pressure with chemoprophylaxis.
