Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Minneapolis To Lay Off White Teachers Before Minority Teachers" video.

@derp8575 Well, you all have convinced me. No one should teach your kids. It's not worth it. You figure it out yourselves.
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@BertoxolusThePuzzled Teachers are paid very much like police. Low to start, and serious money later on. Most jobs that start as low as teachers do not have the potential to reach the pay that teachers can attain, with tenure and years of service. That might be what confused you. Teachers are among the very lowest starting salaries with comparable credentials (BA plus certifications, often 5 years to complete instead of 4 due to student teaching, reading specialist modules, bilingual modules, passing all the tests, etc.). They work so hard during the year that even with summer off, it is comparable hours per year to people with less vacation.
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@derp8575 Money for a higher degree is one of the few generous benefits for teachers -- but going to school while working is grueling. I've been in night classes with them. Seeing people under 30 that exhausted is not pretty.
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@derp8575 Do you have any idea how much teachers work since the advent of email? They literally work all their waking hours. I can see you don't believe it. Do you have any grasp of how many emails they are expected to answer, absolutely every day without fail? This is in addition to lesson planning and grading papers, which literally takes up all of their waking time their first few years. Emails have been added to that. Notice that we have not touched upon school shooter drills. They have to get used to all of this while making poor pay. The average tenure of a teacher in my state is 5 years. They bail.
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@ajbunches825 Social Security is an enormous benefit! If teachers vest it some other way, with another job, their benefit will be subject to some clawback. No one with a defined benefit pension anywhere in the private sector is subject to this. State pension systems can go bankrupt. The Social Security system cannot. Or maybe they lied to you that it can. Ha.
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@derp8575 I'm not a teacher. I'm a lawyer. I was also a math major. We tend to enjoy thinking. I did teach community college, as a public service of sorts. I would never touch it again, at least not for this generation.
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@ajbunches825 I SAID from another source. You imagine I don't know this?
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@ajbunches825 Neither you nor I know how much teachers contribute to their own pension systems without investigation since it is determined state by state, and in many cases by district within the state. I know it is not zero where I live. It is usually comparable to police and firefighter pensions, but again, that is a generalization without seeing actual numbers. The reality is: good people will no longer take that job. You need to give this some serious thought. That's your issue. If only the wealthiest quintile educates its children, then yes, they will be objectively more qualified, and the other 80% will have fewer opportunities because they are not qualified. But you just keep it up, and expect some politician to give you "vouchers."
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@ajbunches825 "Working for them?" I decided to emigrate in 2019, and COVID set me back. Get a clue. You do not have one. The culture warriors have entranced you and captured your mind. You're repeating their memes. Wake up. Look at it this way: WHO makes money from the lunacy on the pseudo left? Why, Fox News does! Symbiotic relationship. Who loses out? Hmmm . . . Tough one.
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@ajbunches825 You can't even hear what I'm telling you. You already made up a story about who I'm "working for." This is why I am telling you, you have problems you need to address. Stop focusing on these manipulators and figure out your OWN best interests. The real problem now is that no one who is truly qualified wants to teach your children. In fact, the interest in doing any real job is at an all-time low.
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