and reminder that the opportunity cost of a few days’ strike is far outweighed by teachers being overworked to the bone without adequate compensation or psychological support, resulting in the best teachers weeding themselves out of the field altogether.

anti-union sentiment is hurting kids.

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    8 months ago

    Full disclosure I don’t think anyone who has started teaching in the last 10-20 years will live to 90 if they continue teaching until they retire. The stress alone is likely to take a decade or two off their life.

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      7 months ago

      yeah, mom lived in the ‘golden era of teaching’ where the parents backed the teachers