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(07-25-2020 03:45 PM)VB Monarch Wrote:  

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(07-25-2020 11:31 AM)Justanodufan Wrote:  I am all for not paying taxes for k-12 education.
I shouldn’t have to pay taxes to educate your children. They aren’t my responsibility.

The goal is to have a more educated society leading to a more productive workforce and a stronger economy, which benefits every citizen.

If you have to point that out we're in trouble. That is a high school debate proposition. A rising tide lifts all boats.

We are in Full agreement on this point.

Just as I assume we agree that teachers are the most essential component of this equation. They should be expected to perform to the highest standards of their profession, and be compensated accordingly.

Much like ambulances drivers and paramedics are expected to perform their duties, notwithstanding unavoidably close contact with sick and injured people, some of whom have dangerous conditions. Much like police are expected to respond to situations over which they often do not have control over what they may encounter. Much like sanitation workers are expected to deal with refuse, which by definition is unclean. Much like truckers are expected to keep our national supply chain functioning, despite having next to no ability to regulate what products they carry and what people they must interact with along the way.

Yet, among our vast spectrum of essential workers, it is only teachers who get to set qualifications on when, how and where they perform their essential service. Why is that okay?

I didn’t like, but understood, the “flatten the curve” dynamic. We are now well past that exceptional, and supposedly temporary, emergency period. Teachers are among the essential, and need to act like it.

And, yes, it is cruel in the extreme to put upon others, particularly upon children, the burdens of self-performing this essential gov’t task, or to bear the consequences of the unwillingness of some teachers to live up to their mission. The only factor that I can see that differentiates teachers from the rest our essential workers is a media that is eager to play violins for the teachers’ unions seeking to politically exploit this situation.

Comparing teachers to police,medical personnel, sanitary workers are all false equivalancy. But let's not lose sight of the real problem here. It has very little to do with teachers. The problem has to do with unnecessary transmission from children to each other and to their parents and extended family.

By the way. If a police officer resigned because he/she felt their job to dangerous, would you be upset at them? So if a teacher resigns for the same reason, how would you feel?

Just out of sheer curiosity, who here is actually a public school teacher besides myself?