Teachers strike, SF schools closed

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'On strike for our students'

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There has never been a single teacher to ever strike who cared about their students. Not one.

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Frankly I think there should be a nationwide teacher strike. We keep asking more and more of our teachers and schools and yet pay the poorly pay and expect the to tolerate a level of disrespect an outright violence unacceptable in any other discipline except maybe emergency medicine.

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Anonymous wrote:Frankly I think there should be a nationwide teacher strike. We keep asking more and more of our teachers and schools and yet pay the poorly pay and expect the to tolerate a level of disrespect an outright violence unacceptable in any other discipline except maybe emergency medicine.

Teachers (not necessarily) are being asked to take on the role of a security officer or law enforcement, and PTSD therapists. Gross.

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Anonymous wrote:Frankly I think there should be a nationwide teacher strike. We keep asking more and more of our teachers and schools and yet pay the poorly pay and expect the to tolerate a level of disrespect an outright violence unacceptable in any other discipline except maybe emergency medicine.

Teachers are being asked to take on the role of a security officer or law enforcement, and PTSD therapists. Gross.

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Anonymous wrote:Frankly I think there should be a nationwide teacher strike. We keep asking more and more of our teachers and schools and yet pay the poorly pay and expect the to tolerate a level of disrespect an outright violence unacceptable in any other discipline except maybe emergency medicine.

Agree 100%.

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Anonymous wrote:Frankly I think there should be a nationwide teacher strike. We keep asking more and more of our teachers and schools and yet pay the poorly pay and expect the to tolerate a level of disrespect an outright violence unacceptable in any other discipline except maybe emergency medicine.

I'm not sure that a strike is right, but I agree with you. I think school admins and school boards are to blame. Parents are sick of the disruptions and violence in school too, but our hands are tied.

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Anonymous wrote:There has never been a single teacher to ever strike who cared about their students. Not one.

How do you know this. Some strike because they are being asked to do more either less, which hurts the students. Everyone thinks teaching is such an easy job. Try managing and teaching 35 teenagers and see how they day it is.

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How do you know this? Some teachers strike because they are being asked to do more with less, which hurts the students. Everyone thinks teaching is such an easy job. Try managing and teaching 35 teenagers, and see how it’s such an “easy “ job.

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Anonymous wrote:EDIT- auto correct and fat thumbs

How do you know this? Some teachers strike because they are being asked to do more with less, which hurts the students. Everyone thinks teaching is such an easy job. Try managing and teaching 35 teenagers, and see how it’s such an “easy “ job.

The thing is, you shouldn't have to manage the teenagers. If all were sitting and behaving, the job wouldn't be as impossible. Your admins are not disciplining like they need to be.

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Anonymous wrote:EDIT- auto correct and fat thumbs

How do you know this? Some teachers strike because they are being asked to do more with less, which hurts the students. Everyone thinks teaching is such an easy job. Try managing and teaching 35 teenagers, and see how it’s such an “easy “ job.

The thing is, you shouldn't have to manage the teenagers. If all were sitting and behaving, the job wouldn't be as impossible. Your admins are not disciplining like they need to be.

PP here. I do agree with this…to some extent. Admins and schools are not disciplining like they should, but there will always be a management aspect to teaching, since they are still kids.

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The teachers are striking because the cost of housing in the Bay Area is absurd. And they would like their families to be covered by health insurance. The cost of housing and health insurance are major issues in many places. A lot of middle class families - especially those that don't own a house - can't afford to live in major metropolitan areas.

If San Francisco wants public school teachers - and nurses, firefighters, and so on - they are going to have to pay them. All those Bay Area homeowners are sitting on pots of gold. If they want basic public services like schools, they are going to have to pay the people that deliver those services viable wages and offer decent health insurance.

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Anonymous wrote:Frankly I think there should be a nationwide teacher strike. We keep asking more and more of our teachers and schools and yet pay the poorly pay and expect the to tolerate a level of disrespect an outright violence unacceptable in any other discipline except maybe emergency medicine.

+1
I wish teachers WOULD strike over work conditions. The SF one seems to be about salaries and benefits which is what they usually are about though. But a strike over work conditions (the zillion things that keep getting layered on teachers to make the teaching part of their jobs so muhc harder now) would generate strong parent support for it too. Those things fall on the Administration and SB mainly but it's hard to push back on them in an organized way - particularly if there's not a coordinated push-back from the actual employees of the school.

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There is so little learning happening in SF public schools at present that the students aren’t really missing out on anything.

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Anonymous wrote:Frankly I think there should be a nationwide teacher strike. We keep asking more and more of our teachers and schools and yet pay the poorly pay and expect the to tolerate a level of disrespect an outright violence unacceptable in any other discipline except maybe emergency medicine.

Teachers (not necessarily) are being asked to take on the role of a security officer or law enforcement, and PTSD therapists. Gross.

LE officers are similarly being asked to be social workers and DSM-5 experts, but don’t have the luxury of striking, because it’s a civil service. Teachers shouldn’t be, either.