So teachers are striking, apparently they want a living wage or something. In any event, it raises a few tricky questions.
Why is it that some of the most valuable work has the least monetary value in a capitalist society?
Why do so many teachers fail to make a living wage?
Why does “the market” (so-called) reward so many who are doing things that do nothing to better society, while so many teachers get crap for wages?
These are questions you cannot ask….in the Twilight (of Capitalism) Zone….
It is a sad reflection of our values. And, again, I am so fortunate and happy to live where I live. Communities need to get behind their children and support public education.
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Yes, very true. It’s interesting that in recent decades, parents have been very keen to give their own children the very best that they can, to educate their own children so that their own kids can have the opportunity to achieve and live out their dreams, but alongside this, there seems to have been this push to cut back on public funding for education. It seems to be part of a greater trend where people focus very intently on themselves but not the greater community or society.
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The guy sitting on the cartoon bench should say that his *daughter* lives paycheck to paycheck. More than three-fourths of public school teachers grades K-12 are women; nearly 90% of primary school teachers are women. Teaching exemplifies one of the obstacles to equal pay for equal work: the whole profession pays less than other professions requiring comparable amounts of work and education. I suppose teaching is regarded as a kind of glorified childcare, which has historically been deemed women’s work, an extension of motherhood, which of course doesn’t pay for crap.
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John, yes. All very true….sadly…..It’s one of the ways in which “the market” is clearly not impartial and one of the ways that class hierarchy and sexism reinforce one another.
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