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Antiwork/Work Reform

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[–] Rottcodd@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

It should be noted too that just throwing money at the problem won't accomplish anything, because the problem isn't that districts don't have enough money.

The problem is that school districts have shifted over time to an essentially corporate structure, in which there's an enormous and ever-growing set of mostly-useless administrators who are paid obscene salaries for doing little if anything of actual value. That's where too much of the money is already going, and if we just give districts even more money with no provisos, the administrators are going to just use it to pay themselves even more obscene salaries.

And all the while, the actual problem is that teachers are treated in their profession essentially the same way that cashiers or fast food workers or wait staff are in their respective industries - as mere grunt employees, to be abused and manipulated and overworked and underpaid, so as much money as possible can be directed to the obscene salaries of the few at the top.

Somehow we have to make ot so that districts can no longer bloat themselves with ranks of useless and overpaid administrators while screwing over teachers. I don't pretend to know how to accomplish that, but that's what has to be done.

We have to eliminate the parasites. Somehow.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

As a former teacher, yeah, I agree. I quit because I had office staff who regularly screamed at me over administrative bullshit. It just wasn't worth it.

I enjoyed the hell out of it, but I made 2x or now 4x the money by working in my field rather than teaching my field.

[–] Funkmaster-Hex@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. My wife just got a completely new career because of this. 13 years and a master's degree but she was paid fuckall so we said screw it.

[–] Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Fuckers don't want for the society to be properly educated because we would abolish them if we were.

[–] CaptainHowdy@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago

This is like me saying there is a Lego shortage because I'm unwilling to pay for more Lego.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

If there was a teacher shortage, school administrations would be kissing teachers' asses, not abusing them to the point that they give up and quit.

[–] skellener@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago
[–] BigBon@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago