Comments by "Chompy the Beast" (@chompythebeast) on "MHFIN" channel.

@Kawika997 This "summer off" logic is inherently flawed, as is the $40 per hour logic, because teachers' jobs never end at clock out. Lesson planning, grading, faculty meetings and seminars, parent interactions — literally as much work as the teaching itself — all of that happens "off the clock". And that's not even touching on how much money the average teacher spends of their own savings for class materials because districts either can't or won't provide funding. Nor is it accounting for the immense responsibility and burden teachers are mantled with regarding hundreds of young people. Teachers more than deserve a raise
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@Willyama You really gonna act like teachers aren't essential? Just gonna tell every last one of them to switch somehow into high paying jobs, or else it's their fault? This truly is the "if you don't like it, quit" mentality of the (petite) bourgeois who is both wildly out of touch and directly contributing to the problem
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@heymaddieshay I don't understand, is the perspective being expressed here that striking teachers are just greedy and lazy or something? That they're lying about their inability to live where they teach in markets where housing is ridiculous? Meanwhile all the people in corporate salaried positions I know are making more than ever and don't even have to perform in front of a semi-hostile audience multiple times a day in addition to the computer work. Instead of comparing underpaid workers to each other and justifying their underpayment that way, why should working class people not look at the material reality on the ground and simply demand better standards for their neighbors as well as for themselves, especially in times of crisis where the ownership class is making record profits?
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@grben9959 Read my other replies regarding that misconception about how hard and how many hours teachers work. Beyond thay, could it be that cutting funding to education and refusing to increase it to even keep up with inflation is having a negative impact on the end result? Police solve less than 2% of all violent crimes in the US, and that figure hasn't changed for decades, yet every year it seems there's political will to increase funding there by millions — again, despite no increase in effectiveness. Meanwhile teachers are having their support cut and are being blamed for underperformance. And that's not even getting into the growing hatred of education as an institution that many Americans are tragically adopting. It is, again, as if the goal is to keep making education worse by refusing to fund it, only to then use its worsening as an excuse to underfund it further. The motivation is clearly political, especially considering what funds we are increasing
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@Kawika997 Er, I'm sorry to hear that your spouse's district had such low standards. But the district where I got my certificate and where my friends are still working has exactly those standards and more, really. Covid changed a lot to be sure, but not having to leave the house didn't exactly make the job of keeping dozens of kids' attention any easier, Ns if anything it increased teacher spending on their home set ups and means of teaching as effectively as they could. Maybe teachers where your spouse worked don't deserve a raise (a very strange thing to argue for in the first place), but firsthand I know how teachers' salaries in places where the housing crisis is bad often don't even allow teachers to live in the districts where they teach. The anti-intellectualism taking over this country combines with the willful desire of those following it to tear down their own working classmates, and it's causing everyone to lose. It almost seems like the goal is to make teaching and schooling such a terrible proposition that education can be abolished altogether. The same people who argue on behalf of CEOs saying that massive compensation attracts quality candidates with great responsibilities will then turn around and tell teachers to work even harder for peanuts. Wonder why that is?
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This is why they repeat that wise old saying: **** your landlord
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The ownership class has caused a bubble for yet another basic human need while millions are left out and hundreds of thousands are left literally outside in the cold
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This is a problem caused by capital, by the ownership class treating a life essential as an investment scheme. Mass landlords are some of the worst people on the planet, and Mao was right about them, even if he was wrong about sparrows
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Binding housing to so much private investment is the problem. Millions of unoccupied homes, hundreds of thousands of people without homes. Any society not based upon capital would find it far more profitable to treat housing as a citizen's right, not as an investment opportunity for an aristocratic class. Private property is inherently theft
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@SoftBreadSoft This is a very overstated problem, a propaganda touchstone really, reminiscent of the Kulaks in the Soviet Union. Small land holders and large land holders were sometimes treated essentially the same by the local populations who resented them alike, that is true, but that is reflective of just how despised they were by the "tenants" working their fields — it says more about genuinely popular sentiment than it does about the Red leadership.This isn't hard to believe, as the Reds were overwhelmingly popular with the Chinese people. At any rate, the vast majority of all sizeable landowners had their lands repossessed and redistributed, and only those who supported the counter-revolutionaries were rightly treated as criminals and enemies of the people. Many retelling the tale in the West seem to conveniently leave out that part about these supposed innocents materially supporting the imperial armies that the people, the class they were exploiting, were fighting and dying against
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This channel doesn't seem to be interested in laying any criticism against capital interests
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