Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "States Desperate Over Teacher Shortage Crisis" video.

  1.  @JohnSpartan-117  Are you joking? Without a union, a teacher could get fired for giving a bad grade to a rich kid. What makes you think that anyone who has the task of evaluating anyone else isn't at risk: of being fired, of being defamed, of being threatened, of being let go because the security measures are too expensive? Of losing the profession they worked to achieve? Seriously, where have you been? Every inherently dangerous job needs a union. Sad that it's so.
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  2.  @JohnSpartan-117  Oh really? 😂😂😂 Okay, now we get it. Nevermind.
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  3.  @ivanplacido6996  Er . . . He's a PROGRAMMER. Get it?
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  4. I wonder what you think correct history is. For example, the United States won WWII, that is correct. It was, however, the Red Army that actually defeated Hitler's fighting forces. The Yugoslavs played a major role as well. And the French Resistance on the ground in France was heavily communist -- all before any Americans showed up. Didja know that? 😉
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  5. I taught community college as a public service, not my main job. I left in 2017. When I started, I expected never to retire. I expected to pick up a class or two indefinitely, as long as I was still good at it, at least another 7 or 8 years. I was threatened by students, including one who posted a picture of himself with a big gun. (He was later arrested for inappropriately touching a woman and a teen, at a Walmart.) The administration investigated ME. See, I was making good money and had first choice of classes. The new adjuncts taught whatever was assigned to them and were far more economical. It was nothing personal. 😃
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  6. Absent a very good, very expensive lawyer, it's almost impossible to get administrators to do anything. To think that people with no sense of right and wrong are responsible for educating the next generation is a horror movie.
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  7.  @jessigreer  How is it retaliation to make their remarks widely known?
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  8.  @jessigreer  No one should ever have to be concerned about retaliation for speaking their mind about anything, least of all in a forum designed for that purpose. But if you step up and publicly denounce a person, that person has a right to know about it. A criminal has a right to face his accuser. A teacher should have to be kept in the dark? If you see this as targetting, then I have to wonder exactly what these parents are saying. If a teacher is engaging in any unprofessional acts with any student, contact a lawyer, and consult with the lawyer about next steps, including a police report if warranted. This is simpler than you're making it.
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  9. Frankly, I bet you are VERY close to qualified. I'd fast-track you. A few concentrated night classes, a semester of student teaching. Boom. Done. The very fact that you don't believe you are qualified this very minute is 90 points in your favor. Trust me on this.
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  10.  @MrJpmoneypants  Well, French preschool teachers need a Master's degree. The idea that the very best should teach the youngest is common around the world. Most other cultures figure that 15 year olds can do more on their own, and should. First-graders can't. Older kids had better.
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  11. This is why teachers have unions. I suppose the first year is still unprotected.
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  12. I left teaching community college in 2017, and plan to leave the country. Coincidence!
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  13. If she is going to work that hard, she has GOT to take vacations. Please believe it. She cannot maintain her resilience without breaks -- real breaks. Unreachable for weeks, let the rest of them get used to it!
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  14.  @googultrollacct7784  correct
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  15.  @profe3330  The French have a word for it: ressentiment I don't think it has ever been more poisonous.
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  16.  @elizabethsmusicandarts1590  Eloquent and heart-wrenching. None of it surprises me.
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  17. As for the OP, if a person makes a public comment in a public forum, in 2022 they should expect it to become widely known. Suppose a parent lies about a teacher at a school board meeting. That is undoubtedly privileged in some way, meaning that even if it were flat-out defamation, the teacher would either have a very hard time suing them (many procedural hurdles, need to exhaust all other remedies), or might not be able to obtain recourse at all. Why shouldn't she be informed about it? You expect as much at your job.
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  18.  @jessigreer  No one said that. I just said the opposite. Sounds like you have a sketchy relationship with the truth. I wonder if someone publicly denounced you whether you would think you'd have a right to be informed and to seek redress if necessary. NEWSFLASH: no one wants to teach your children any more. Teaching is still a respected profession in just about every other country in the world. Go back and watch some newscasts about the Beslan school seige and massacre. See what their first day of school is like (everyone dressed up, all parents present, a parade, and giant bouquets of flowers for all the teachers). It's a great, big world out there. You really do not grasp what you're doing.
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  19.  @AFuller2020  Which is why the average teacher in my state bails after an average of five years. If they can tough it out, that's about when the better money starts to come in.
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  20. I recently read a book about school shooters, and what came out about Columbine was unbelievable. The football team and other sports teams were conducting ritual bullying. This was not your ordinary teasing, but more akin to hazing that didn't stop. It was really sick. The teachers and administrators always looked the other way and even condoned some of it. After what those two shooters did, everyone tried to cover everything up, to avoid taking any responsibility. There was even an unexecuted search warrant on Eric Harris. It was a very sick place -- extraordinary. The average kid who survived that day is close to 40, even older.
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  21. Who are these people who staff the schools that they "know" by SIXTH GRADE who will succeed academically and who won't? These are people who very often cannot do their own jobs very well. But they can tell who should end up where! Wow. Just wow.
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  22.  @charlesiragui2473  In "Europe?" Every country? Who told you this? What languages do you speak, to check it for yourself??
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  23.  @charlesiragui2473  Mon Dieu, je ne le savais pas! C'est nouveau. Par exemple, je me rappelle tres bien quand il etait formellement interdit d'utilizer les examens comme les "IQ tests" de decider quoi que soit au sujet d'un etudiant et son parcours eventuel. Aussi, Pierre Bourdieu demontrer comment les prejuges de classe etaient utilizes contre les etudiants. Je ne peut pas imaginer un Gaston Bachelard ici. C'etait comme si Jude the Obscure avait reussi a entrer a Oxford.
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  24.  @charlesiragui2473  L'Allemande, je savais. Les autres pays, je le doutait. Quand est-ce que la France etait aussi rigide? Est-ce que vous dites que c'est fini maintenant, ou . . . ?
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  25.  @whatevergoesforme5129  I know that unions have terrible side effects. I explained why they exist.
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