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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not a union person but people on this board have convinced me that if NoVA ever gets real ones, I will join.  I only wish I had as much power and agency some parents seem to think I have.[/quote]

Hahaha! Isn't that the truth! Teachers have progressed from being called lazy and incapable to people that are SO powerful that we close schools for a year! Funny... [/quote]

Teachers' collective refusal to return to school is why our schools are closed and others are open. It is the truth. [/quote]

You know- the problem with teachers is- they’re educated.[/quote]

...and the problem with that is that it makes people MORE stuck on their own arguments:

[quote]Now, often in elite media circles or academic circles, these tendencies are discussed as the products of ignorance, a lack of cognitive sophistication, or the result of naïve dogmatism. “Those people” resist facts and logic, “they” are driven by prejudices and superstitions. “We”, on the other hand, are open-minded. “Our” beliefs are derived from evidence and facts. We are committed to “the truth” rather than being driven by ideology.

But here again, in many respects, basically the opposite seems to be true:In fact, the more intelligent, educated or rhetorically skilled one is, the less likely it becomes that someone will change their minds when confronted with evidence or arguments that challenge their priors....

And while educated people may be less likely to discriminate against others on the basis of factors like race, they are significantly more likely to be prejudiced against people who think differently than them, or hold different ideological commitments.[/quote]

([url=https://musaalgharbi.com/2018/02/16/navigating-moral-disagreements-three-strategies/]source[/url], with lots of citations and links)[/quote]

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