Learn Your Place!

While trolling for any and all reportage of teachers agitating for better working conditions and salaries, which we find entirely lacking and sparse, we found an article from last year concerning a planned/possible strike in Florida:

One anonymous commentator spewed: “....Looking closely at the facts here, it is reasonable to conclude that this strike is not really about Saucon Valley schools but about a broader strategy by the teacher unions -- namely, continuing to drive up comparative teacher salaries through formulaic pay scales and expecting taxpayers to pay for the escalating cost of health care.....”


I [Rachel] would like to reply: You are correct, sir! Teachers want to drive up comparative salaries--check--no, check-plus!! We want tax payers to pay for the escalating cost of health care--BINGO!! If we didn't know our anonymous commenter clearly despises teachers and regard them as "lessers"--we'd HIRE you as a guest blogger!!


Would anonymous commenter rather teachers go on strike to request that their salaries keep them mired in student loan debt, permanently ensconced in the lower middle class*, forever obligated to take 2nd, and 3rd, and 4th jobs to pay mortgages on house in the districts in which they teach?

To that we say, "G(o) T(o) H-E-Double Hockey sticks! We're not your worker bees.


Or...maybe we are, and just like the collapse of the honey bees, we should take our act on the road. Go to law school. Set up our own tutoring companies. Withdraw our labor. See how you like them apples....


*Yes--actually, you are in The Lower Middle Class. Oh, you don't think so? Well, you're wrong. We will elucidate you tomorrow.