• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Sometimes, the parents forget to pick up the kids so the teachers get to decide if they leave a child all alone with no help or if the teacher works unpaid over time

    Greatest country in the world…

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      12 hours ago

      Here if parents don’t show up, teacher have to call the police to pick the kid (it almost happened to me as I was 5 min late)

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        Here the kids just walked or cycled home. Bus if you lived further away or didn’t wanna cycle in the winter. But I grew up in a small town in Estonia in the 00s. It may have been literally feared at the time by people not from our town, but generally nobody would hurt a 7 year old and even once you got older, usually people’s beefs were with kids from the other towns nearby, not locals.

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      21 hours ago

      No. Bullshit. When I got cut loose from 70s-80s elementary I was on my fucking own. We could walk, ride, skate, whatever. We did not require a fucking adult to care for us. Bell rings? GTFO! BYE!

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          20 hours ago

          oh, they definitely don’t care about the kids. They care about getting arrested or sued.

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            16 hours ago

            Oh yea dude, people doing thankless low paying jobs that require the same education as jobs that pay much better are sooooo greedy and not at all passionate.

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              12 hours ago

              I got screwed at every step of my education. The passion gets ground out of them without them realizing.

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                11 hours ago

                Oh no, they’re aware. They’re especially aware of the clueless people blaming them for not getting blood from stone.

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                  10 hours ago

                  I got lied to about my placement tests for no one’s gain. I got stone walled and gaslighted every time I tried improving my situation.

                  The most passion I ever heard from a teacher the was a rightwing asshole in my civics class when he was complaining about immigrants or welfare queens. My science teacher had to be asked directly about climate change for him to utter his take on that.

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                    7 hours ago

                    Ah yes my dude. Your anecdotes totally change the facts that teachers do tons of unpaid work, buy classroom supplies themselves to give kids a better education, and constantly are in fights to stop their schools from adding new ridiculous policies.