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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not the same work. There's overlap, but it isn't equivalent.

Do you think it's disrespectful for a woman doctor to correct someone who refers to her as a nurse? (Or vice versa?) Or are we all required to call everything the same? [/quote]

Actually yes, in many cases I do. And I live that myself. I am in a male-dominated profession that requires advanced degrees. During the course of my career, I have been mistaken for an assistant, a secretary, a SAHM, and more multiple times. When that happens, I almost never correct people. I will only correct people if it would be deceptive not to.correct them. But otherwise, yes, I do think it's disrespectful. I reject the concept that it degrades me to have people think I am an admin or a secretary or a SAHM or whatever. I respect everyone who fills those roles. I would not correct someone who thought that I was a childcare worker. I think highly of childcare workers, and it's no insult to be confused with one. I will never promote myself by being disrespectful of the career of someone else. If I need to do that, I've done something wrong.

So when I hear teachers and unions talk disparagingly about how school isn't childcare, what I hear is disappointing disparagement and disrespect towards childcare workers. It has a classist and racist edge to it that makes me very uncomfortable.[/quote]

I don't know about your job, but you don't take medical advice from a nurse to be of a different level than medical advice about diagnosis and treatment from a licensed physician?

You don't see why identifying yourself correctly is or isn't important to a patient? Not just a matter of ego or hierarchy?

Wow. I'll leave it at that. [/quote]

This is more like saying "patient CARE? I went to med school and residency to practice medicine, not care for patients. That's what a nurse does." We know doctors don't change bedpans but trying to totally separate the care part from the knowledge part sounds a bit unkind toward both patients and nurses. [/quote]

These arguments only work if we were asking Teachers to babysit our kids and not teach them right now. 
We are asking them to TEACH them, they are TEACHERS. It is not crazy for parents to be asking them to do their actual jobs. 
I am not asking the school to hold my kid for 6 hours while i work. I am asking the school to educate them. 
This is not asking for childcare, it is asking for an essential service that our tax dollars pay for. [/quote]

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