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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it is important to point out that teachers have very little control.  A Pilot can choose not to take off if their is a problem.  He can remove problem passengers.  A surgeon can choose who he wants to operate on.   Teachers have very little choice day to day.  Other people facing positions face similar stresses.  This is why teaching is often compared to stressful nursing positions.  Very little control compared to most jobs.[/quote]

Wait. I’m sorry. I’m remembering my own surgeon father fighting with insurance companies, hospital administration, patients who somehow thought no food before surgery meant some food before surgery. Then there were the nurses setting the surgery schedules without consideration for what was actually needed and the attendants who regularly lost patients in the hospital as in parked them by the elevator and left them there for hours. Being screamed at for not being able to make God-like changes in people’s lives, berated by family members. Trying to switch mentally from being a seamstress only with human body parts to psychiatrist to grief counselor. Then deciding the fights for insurance reimbursement wasn’t worth it and starting their own practice having to now be an entrepreneur, hire custodians, be a building manager, etc. And yes, you get to choose who to operate on like you choose who to teach. If you are heartless, you say no. But surgeons took the Hippocratic oath. Then there are the lawsuits. There’s nothing like having to defend your surgical decisions to a room full of people who know nothing about medicine, especially after you sacrificed family time, sleep and money trying to save the patient.

Teachers are overworked. So are a lot of people. It’d be better to band together to fight problematic systems than argue over who is more overworked
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DCUM doesn't understand systems vs. individual blame.[/quote]

I can tell. This is the reason why these types of discussions are unending and circular without any productive conclusions[/quote]

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