FB Reaction to Strike

[Scarriere]

There's an open letter circulating on Facebook that I love regarding the Teachers strike in B.C., Canada.
It's nsfw so if you don't like f-bombs, don't read it.
Enjoy:

[Show spoiler]Pay the ****ing teachers. Shut the **** up and pay them a lot of money. Don't hesitate. Don't argue. Just suck it up and give the ****ing teachers whatever they ****ing want. An educated public commits less crime, makes more money, and has a lower birth rate. They probably even ****ing swear less often. Education is the magic ****ing bullet to get us out of the economic, political and environmental shitstorm we are about to be swimming in. Education is not just the magic ****ing bullet, it's our ONLY ****ing bullet. There are currently 7 billion people on this planet. In the year 2000, there were 6 billion. That's a BILLION extra people since Destiny's Child was a thing. Wrap your ****ing mind around that one. During Beyoncé's career, from "Bootylicious" to "Drunk in Love", the world's population increased by over 16%. (Don't blame Beyoncé, she's just trying to entertain the nice people with her music and titties.) Oh, and the oceans are about to start rising, flooding cities and wiping out entire ****ing islands over the next 50 years. It's going to happen, and we have NO IDEA how to even just SLOW IT DOWN. So we are about to have way too many people living on less and less land. How the **** do you think that's gonna work out?! Oh, and we're almost out of oil. Now obviously "the rich are going to move to the higher ground" (Geoff Berner) and start shooting anyone who comes near the compound, and religious fanatics are going to say it's God's Will or some other stupid shit, but the only hope for the rest of us is that the kids growing up today get ****ing smart, ****ing fast. We need the best ****ing teachers we can find and we need to ****ing give them whatever they ****ing want. If teachers want oral sex every thursday at lunch, we need to make that happen. I'm willing to volunteer for a couple shifts a month. If they want top hats and velvet gowns and ****ing tiaras we need to find the ****ing money and give it to them. Even if some teachers are shitty - and some of them are - at least they're showing up every day trying to make apathetic little Jimmy capable of filling out a ****ing job application at Burger Hut so that maybe he can buy a shitty car and get laid instead of robbing me the night he doesn't graduate. Hey, at least it's something. And it's a metric shit-tonne more than most of us are doing. People don't become teachers to get rich for ****'s sake. Do you know a rich teacher? Have you ever seen a teacher who owns a boat? People become teachers because they genuinely WANT to do that shitty shitty job. They actually WANT to teach your darling little ****ed up, lazy, A.D.H.D., video game addicts at least SOME of the knowledge humans have managed to gather over the last 200 000 ****ing years. And if you don't have kids, well then the next time you're out and you see a little 5 year old on a swing, you just imagine him stealing your car in 10 years. You want that? No? Well then do you wanna teach all the little potential juvenile delinquents in your neighbourhood ****ing grammar and Newton's Laws of Motion? You know… the laws that helped us figure out how to get to the ****ing MOON back when we gave a shit about doing that. Do you wanna teach that complicated, important, boring shit to a bunch of snot-nosed, disaffected children? Because if you do, I guarantee that if you don't get a decent wage, small class sizes, a winter break and 2 months off in the summer you will put a bullet through your own ****ing head.

[Jett Rink]

I am against education funding. So I hope those teachers get fired (and they can get fired) and replaced with scabs. BTW, the person who wrote this letter must be real educated.

[Scarriere]

Originally Posted by Jett Rink

I am against education funding. So I hope those teachers get fired (and they can get fired) and replaced with scabs. BTW, the person who wrote this letter must be real educated.

What is education funding? The laws here are probably quite different from yours eh, Jett?
I usually like your opinions, but not this time Jett. No big deal Bro.

edit: I don't want this to get political. I put it in the humour section for a reason, it's funny.

[Jett Rink]

Originally Posted by Scarriere

What is education funding? The laws here are probably quite different from yours eh, Jett?
I usually like your opinions, but not this time Jett. No big deal Bro.

I'm sorry. In a nutshell we pay taxes to support education. Since I do not have children, I feel that is kind of a waste of my tax dollars. Anyways, sorry if I offended you too much.

I just saw your edit, again sorry to get so heated about this.

[Scarriere]

Originally Posted by Jett Rink

I'm sorry. In a nutshell we pay taxes to support education. Since I do not have children, I feel that is kind of a waste of my tax dollars. Anyways, sorry if I offended you too much.

You didn't offend me at all.
Doesn't the letter spell out how your tax dollars AREN'T wasted?

[onyxbfly]

Its hilarious but its true. Instead of opening prisons with tax dollars how about educate children so they don't end up in jail. Why waste money funding test for second and third graders to determine how many cots they need in prison in the future. They would rather spend money to determine how many prisons they need in the future instead of helping children in the here and now!!!

I work for one of the largest school districts in the country. I'm a man of many hats. But I'm not a teacher. I work in Information Services/ Technology. I'm a server engineer. On occasion I teach teachers how to use their work stations, or help integrate technology into the curriculum.

I see what teachers go through. Its a viscous cycle that no one wants to truly acknowledge. Peeps and the Gov't want to blame teachers....But in all actuality teachers have a persons child 8hrs a day. Where are the other 16hrs spent? A child should arrive at school prepared to learn but alas many do not.

I have various family members and friends in various aspects of education. In the past my mother was a teacher, a social worker, a dean, a principal. She opened a day care center and was co director. Regardless of the school or her role in education. My mother used to buy stuff for students all the time. Deodorant, pens, paper notebooks even clothes for the younger kids who need a change of clothes yet their parents do not or simply can not provide for them.

All education begins at home. Ethics, values, morals are taught at home. children having children. Children raising children because they have no guidance at home. Single parents who wk 9-12 hr days to keep a roof over their kids head sometimes can't come home from wk and parent their kids. I could go on and on.

But if you told parents parents that all education begins at home and they should step up and stop blaming everyone else but them for their kids behavior they would revolt.

Its a viscous cycle and no one seems interested in stopping it.

[quickdraw]

Originally Posted by onyxbfly

All education begins at home. Ethics, values, morals are taught at home. children having children. Children raising children because they have no guidance at home. Single parents who wk 9-12 hr days to keep a roof over their kids head sometimes can't come home from wk and parent their kids. I could go on and on.

But if you told parents parents that all education begins at home and they should step up and stop blaming everyone else but them for their kids behavior they would revolt.

Its a viscous cycle and no one seems interested in stopping it.

Sad, but true.
We live in a "blameless" society, where your poor life decisions become everyone else's mess to clean up. It's really quite simple to fix this:

-If you're on welfare or can't support yourself, don't have a kid.

-If you're single, don't have a kid.

-If you're under 18, don't have a kid.

-If you're a drug addict, alcoholic or belong to a gang, don't have a kid.

-If you're prone to violence, jail or have the mental capacity of a garden snail, don't have a kid.

Just because you can't keep your legs closed or your pecker in your pants, doesn't mean you absolve yourself from personal responsibility. Responsibility, both financially and morally, begins at home and we've created generational poverty by making it easy to walk away from it.

[onyxbfly]

Originally Posted by Jett Rink

I'm sorry. In a nutshell we pay taxes to support education. Since I do not have children, I feel that is kind of a waste of my tax dollars. Anyways, sorry if I offended you too much.

I just saw your edit, again sorry to get so heated about this.

I know how you feel its akin to passing the buck. At my school district they always say submit a letter if you have a suggestion that can help the district save and or make money.

In the past I made the following suggestions installing solar panels, recruit cellular companies to install cell towers. When Cell phone companies install towers they usually pay for maintenance and upkeep of the roof since they don't want anything to impact their towers, I suggested renting parking lots after school so people in the community can park.

The response I received was that the school district is not in the business of making money we are a non profit organization.

HUH WTF SMDMFH

I recently purchased a house and have no children. Now I'm truly feeling the sting of paying education taxes etc. Where does the money go? I don't have a clue.....

I have to pay into my medical benefits. Have not had a cost of living increase in Lord knows how long. To add insult to injury I took a 10% pay cut. Again Where does the money go?

Originally Posted by quickdraw

Sad, but true.
We live in a "blameless" society, where your poor life decisions become everyone else's mess to clean up. It's really quite simple to fix this:

-If you're on welfare or can't support yourself, don't have a kid.

-If you're single, don't have a kid.

-If you're under 18, don't have a kid.

-If you're a drug addict, alcoholic or belong to a gang, don't have a kid.

-If you're prone to violence, jail or have the mental capacity of a garden snail, don't have a kid.

Just because you can't keep your legs closed or your pecker in your pants, doesn't mean you absolve yourself from personal responsibility. Responsibility, both financially and morally, begins at home and we've created generational poverty by making it easy to walk away from it.

I'm 41 and don't have any children. Everyone thinks that I'd be a great dad. I have plenty of Godchildren and I mentor in a few programs. But at the end of the day they belong to someone else. While I'm blessed to have everything that I have I do want more. I like to travel and enjoy my HT etc. I don't think that I could do the things I do if I had children.

Children are not pets you can't take em back to the pound if its to troublesome. Peeps shouldn't have em if they don't want to take care of them and or think they are any ones responsibility but their own.

[Elandyll]

Originally Posted by Jett Rink

I'm sorry. In a nutshell we pay taxes to support education. Since I do not have children, I feel that is kind of a waste of my tax dollars. Anyways, sorry if I offended you too much.

I just saw your edit, again sorry to get so heated about this.

Let me guess:
You don't use planes, so we shouldn't fund the FAA and flight controlers either? You're not retired, so F* retirement and Medicare? You're working, so F* Social nets? You're healthy so F* Health Insurance? You drive really well so F* drivers Insurance. You only drive off roads so F* public funding of bridges, roads and infrastructures? You drink your own well water and live in the countryside with no pollution nearby so F* the EPA. You don't plan to go to space so F* NASA... etc.

Also, you're not involved in a war so F* the army, and F* publicly funded weapons companies too right?

That's swell... And a seriously misguided position to say the least.

[Falaskan]

Real change needs to start in the home before school. Parents influence > teacher influence. Kids could go through hell at home, and going to school where a teacher has to spend most of the time teaching (not counseling) is not going to make up for the hell at home. Kids could have a wonderful home life, and a mediocre education, but still have the motivation to pursue all the knowledge and experience life has to offer anyway.

I agree a better education helps, but I think the majority of delinquents had shitty home lives.

That guy is just trying to sound like a bad ass more than he is trying to affect change anyway.

[Blu Titan]

Originally Posted by Jett Rink

I'm sorry. In a nutshell we pay taxes to support education. Since I do not have children, I feel that is kind of a waste of my tax dollars. Anyways, sorry if I offended you too much.

I just saw your edit, again sorry to get so heated about this.

Did go you to private school for your education (all of it)? Did you go to college? If you did, how was your college education funded?

[Blu-Dog]

Originally Posted by Blu Titan

Did go you to private school for your education (all of it)? Did you go to college? If you did, how was your college education funded?

Myself, and my sons, deal with the lack of good education with the generation coming up - even though my kids are grown, and on their own.


I'm a senior manager, at a computer firm. I have a real shortage of truly educated engineers, that can handle both technology, and simple written communications. They're out there - but the numbers are shrinking.


My sons are military officers. They have a shortage of well educated recruits - that can handle the increasing technical and logistical needs of active-duty military service. They have strong teams - but it's harder to get new people who know what they're doing, or can learn new things.


It's really strange to them, as they did quite well in school, and (after searching around) went to excellent public schools, and finally to West Point. But those numbers are shrinking, too, as teachers get paid a pittance for going through four or five years of education just to get a teaching credential. The best of them often go elsewhere for work, due to the low pay.


Something's got to give, at some point. I don't have kids in public schools, and see a real need to pay good teachers a good wage. It's good for everyone, even if they don't have kids at home.