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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers are the reason schools are closed, and they have an obvious financial incentive to keep them closed. They collect their full salary regardless of whether schools are open and keeping them closed drives up the price of private tutoring which our kids now all need because distance learning is so ineffectual. If schools were open, no one would hire teachers as tutors. [/quote]

Some teachers have to carry two jobs in order to make ends meet.  It's disgusting and very classist of you to assume that somehow teachers should not be allowed to pursue their own self-interest (or perhaps even their own survival) in these uncertain times.  You should examine your own class privilege and your obvious bias against middle/working class people.[/quote]

DP:  DCPS salaries are not skimpy like teachers’ salaries of the past.  Salaries have been raised over the past decade so that teachers don’t have to work multiple jobs “to survive.” [/quote]

Typical upper class bigoted view: you think their working class salary is acceptable (but way less than you make) so therefore you feel comfortable condemning their attempts to make more money on the side, on their own free time.  Disgusting.  The class struggle is real.[/quote]

Nope.  I didn’t say teachers shouldn’t aim to live well.  I rejected the assertion that DCPS teachers “have to work two jobs to make ends meet” or “to survive.”  My point is just that the “teachers are so horribly underpaid” thing doesn’t work anymore here — which is a good thing!

And talk about bigoted.  You make wild assumptions about how much I make with zero information.

Do you forget that many of us in DC work for the federal government or non-profits and make similar salaries to teachers?[/quote]

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