and reminder that the opportunity cost of a few days’ strike is far outweighed by teachers being overworked to the bone without adequate compensation or psychological support, resulting in the best teachers weeding themselves out of the field altogether.
anti-union sentiment is hurting kids.
bruh. okay nitpick that then instead of saying
and maybe you’d get a helpful answer like as follows:
in most cases in US education, school serves multiple functions in addition to education, including taking care of kids during business hours (childcare) and feeding them one meal a day (in some cases; lunch). in the top level comment, the poster intended to express that, if all teachers/schools disappeared in a hypothetical thanos-snap scenario, all parents would be forced to cover the additional costs of watching their kids while they are away at work and of paying for that additional lunch.
such a scenario is entirely unrelated to current tragedies wherein children are going without lunches due to school board decisions, because, again, this is a hypothetical expressing the labor done by educators. the point is teachers are good things, and commenter makes that point by saying how without teachers things are worse. no one ever said things aren’t already bad, but that’s the assumption you made for some reason.
Shipmate, I’m pointing out that the system as it already stands is pretty much exactly as shit as they say it would become should the situation change. Each attempt to merely increase wages here and there is like putting a bandage on a gangrenous wound or a tumor, instead of realizing that the tumor itself needs to be surgically removed for all these symptoms - the American prison system, for-profit childcare, normalized hunger as a punishment for poverty and so on - to be actually treated. Believe it or not, I’m on your side.
see my edit. and i don’t know what shipmate means.
Force of habit from almost a decade in the Navy, it’s a term of “endearment” that was intended by politicians and bureaucrats to be a “polite” term that can be universally applied regardless of rank, but is usually applied out of exasperation when actual insult isn’t warranted. Apologies for the unfamiliar term.
oh lol i thought it was some chess reference i somehow was unaware of
It would totally make sense for some sailor to use it that way too after a night on liberty in port, but alas no.
thanks for the clarification :) i believe you are on my side but im still gonna maintain that you badly maligned the meaning of the commenter’s post lol. i put the remainder of my thoughts here