Have you bashed a teacher yet?
Bastards make too much money in those cushy jobs with the bed bugs and the 105 degree heat from the 19th century boilers in the 19th century school buildings and the PCB's and the endless professional development that sucks the soul out of you and leaves you a withered husk of humanity.
Yeah, bash some teachers today - these bastards have it too good.
The people that laughed at us as losers when we became teachers 15 years ago, now are calling for our heads because they are unemployed and miserable. "They don't have what we have"...then why didn't they become teachers back then? They didn't because they were making "real money" selling pieces of paper, or e-widgets that no longer exist- and getting free college credits, and cushy vacations from their jobs. Or, they were "playing the stock market, making 20, 30 , and 50 % gains overnight in stocks...Remember Enron...? And their "mutual funds" were exploding. They remortaged, "moved up" bought the gas guzzling SUV and lived beyond their means in the burbs, and now are bankrupt and unemployed, because they listened to The Man... Some of them may have even tried to "flip" properties...only to discover that THEY were flipped...by The Moneychangers... While I toiled away in inner city schools that they wouldn't drive by. At that time, I was looked at as a loser, treated with a snicker even WITH THE BENEFITS...after all, I didn't have a granite top kitchen counter in some overpriced , cookie cutter development somewhere in Jersey, or The Island. AND...I worked in (shuuuuush !) BLACK areas, with and for BLACK PEOPLE...in the GHETTO...!
ReplyDeleteHow is it that I have a cushy life, "I have it made" because I have health benefits, and a modest pension when I'm 62? I've sweated bullets for it. I STILL couldn't afford to buy a home at my current salary. I'll barely get by with it, with Social Security as shakey as it is now. I was 40 years old and subbed in a hell hole junior high in Brooklyn for a year, while going to Brooklyn College at night...then another degree for teaching, THEN another degree,a Masters degree, commuting to Queens College for years.nights and weekends...spending countless hours day and night stuck on the LIE, or waiting hours for buses that never came.All the while teaching by day in very rough, super stressful high schools...It was thankless, tough work, with some fleeting, occasional silver linings...I paid for it all out of my own pocket, making peanuts for a salary for years...So 15 years later...the world has collapsed around us...Due to The Moneychangers...and working class schlubs like me "have it made..."? I'm the cause of the pain that's going around....? YO...you "private industry" workers wherever you are, "that don't get what I get"...maybe that's because you didn't want what I wanted back then...You wouldn't stoop that low...You listened to The Man back then, and where did he lead you? SO NOW you're listening to him and being told what to think about reality. Why would you listen to them again...? Or does it just make you feel better?
Like little Cathy Black said the other night to the crowd...."Boooooooooooooo..."...and Fuck Youuuuuuuuuu Tooooooooo.....
Yup, that's me, too. I had a conversation last summer with a friend who got a PhD, then had to switch to selling real estate because there were no jobs. Seemed like a good idea, except the real estate market went soft. My friend agrees with her municipality that "because everyone else is suffering, it's right that cops, firefighters, and teachers should make less money." After some stressful arguing back and forth, we had to agree that we wouldn't discuss it any more.
ReplyDeleteThe proverbial question always lobbed at teachers is, "you knew what you were getting into, you should be judged by the same standards as the private sector, why did you take the job if you didn't want it?" 8:44 is correct - everyone attacking us chose to go private sector because they thought they could make more money, and who the fuck would want to teach in a school with all those underclass riffraff? Well, WE did. And because we chose to serve the public, the public must serve us. Damn it, I traded a lucrative career in the private sector so I could get a job with a steady-state future, decent but not spectacular pay, some semblance of job security AFTER I put in my three years of probation, and pretty good benefits. Now the private sector wants to take that away from me because I had the nerve to serve the public good. SCREW YOU BLOOMBERG, BLACK, KLEIN, STEINER, CONNOLLY, DUNCAN, OBAMA, WINFREY, GATES, BROAD, AND E4E.