• HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world
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    Being an educator in this day and age seems so difficult, we are taught all the studies and theories of healthy child development, how to promote healthy social emotional learning, but we must fight parents and increasely the law to maintain a safe, healthy social environmental layer.

    Good educators are already beaten down from so many things and have become rare, but I know most of my colleagues and friends have no intention of bending knee to this and policies aimed at hurting students we fight for, and I desperately hope this sentiment is shared by many across our country.

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          there are many more fully resisting each purge attempt. shits getting dark af right now, but dispair despair cannot be an option.

          get out and find community. I did a thing two days ago. stopped by one of the only houses in my neighborhood that openly opposed the trump collective before the election. let them know I (and my fam) were here if they needed anything. we shared ideas and history. face to face. in realtime. and we will be checking up on each other moving forward.

          edit: curnt speeeel.

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          That was, thankfully, a substitute teacher. Which means they don’t necessarily have any education in education.

          Thats not to say there aren’t scumbags just like them as full time employees, just noting not a regular teacher in that case.

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        Good educators are a rare and dying breed. Unfortunately probably a lot who either openly or secretly harbour similar feelings.

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          The good ones usually quit before they get tenure. They don’t get paid nearly enough for all the shit they put up with.

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            yeah, I know all customer facing jobs have big cons, and working fast food isn’t easy by any means, but I see McDonald’s hiring ads and sometimes I wonder, 25% raise and far less likely to get bit? almost tempting. I would probably still have to talk to people as if they are children.

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      That’s the point, that’s what they want and they want good teachers to be sick of it and leave so they can either put some uncertified person in your place or none at all and keep education for private schools. Trumpy said it himself, he loved the uneducated. It’s sadly all part of their plan to keep critical thinkers at bay so they can do whatever they want and nobody bats an eye.

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        Keep people uneducated, and feed them misinformation. yes, it is very unfortunate that is the federal policy for k-12 education.

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          To quote my maga father in law when discussing cutting funding to schools " I want them kids as ignorant as me"

          Soo trashy.