• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      Teachers are a cost-center

      Technology is a profit-center

      What are you, some kind of socialist? Your system will never work. We’ll all run out of money!

    • melfie@lemy.lol
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      Teachers are paid a pittance in the US. Shows our values as a society. They’re educating the next generations, but that doesn’t make number go up right this second, so they are compensated accordingly.

      • evol@lemmy.today
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        In California most of my teachers were making 6 figures in my rural town, the problem is that kids don’t care about learning, their parents especially do not care at all.

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        Exactly, it’s a sad reflection of priorities. The work they do shapes the future, yet the pay doesn’t reflect that impact at all.

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      It’s more than just lack of effort here though, it’s systematic pollution they are allowing into our food and water with abandon.