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scatmandingo
· 5 years ago
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Imagine if we funded the education system well enough that we made teacher’s salaries no longer a joke and attracted people to the profession so we could raise standards and have enough staff to meet a student to teacher ratio where what you propose is possible. Nah. Let’s just buy some more tanks and shit.
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lucky11
· 5 years ago
Imagine if parents acted like parents and encouraged/helped their kids with school instead of expecting the teachers to teach them basic things like manners and how to behave on top of their already massive burden.
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interesting
· 5 years ago
You're both sort of right. You have some cities that push funding in every direction EXCEPT their local school districts, and you have some parents that send their kids to school and expect their teachers to effectively raise the kids for the parents.
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thekaylapup
· 5 years ago
I agree that parents shouldn't expect teachers to parent their children. However, I also think teachers who do so when its needed are part of what makes the world a better place. I can't imagine who I would be today if it wasn't for good teachers who helped my find my way when parents just weren't there. And I think having more funding in our schools and higher standards so as to get more good and less burdened teachers is not only good for education itself, but also for the growing of a better society. Good teachers have the ability to break cycles of abuse and encourage children from bad homes to become good people. And that is good for everyone.
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catfluff
· 5 years ago
*cries in confused corner*
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jaharien
· 5 years ago
Well to be fair, getting a highschool diploma meant you where going places. Before the 50's all of my family went to school until 8th grade and there was no shame in that. Truth be told, I wish the private sector would overhaul and streamline their internship and apprenticeship programs
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harperfan7
· 5 years ago
What part of "you are tax cattle" dont you understand?
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johnadams
· 5 years ago
It's a part of the school system. It's designed to prepare kids for their daily societal routines. And for a lot of those kids, that's going to be working a crappy 9-to-5 job where compliance to the boss's wishes are more important than being an individual. It's a part of being a member of society.
thekaylapup
· 5 years ago
Except for the fact that a. We are still bad at getting students to understand where they belong in the job world. And b. Crappy 9-5 cog in the wheel jobs are going to be some of the first replaced over the next couple decades. Retail is already replacing some if their cashiers with robot cashiers. You are starting to see this more and more in fast good too. And this means each company who starts using robots will hire less humans. This is going to continue this way. And we are creating less jobs than we are replacing, while we continue to grow the population. Something has to give and no one is preparing for it.
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harperfan7
· 5 years ago
I think *someone* is preparing for it, just not the people we want to be.
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