rage intensifies

[sabotabby]

 Tomorrow, a whole lot of really great teachers are going to find out that they've lost their jobs. Not positions in schools, but jobs. Most new teachers have at least a Masters and have spent 7-10 years on the supply list before they hit permanent contract (not me, but I squeaked in just as the door was closing) and all of that hard work and stability is going to be yanked away at the whim of a government that has the money to break billion dollar contracts and fight for the right to ravage the climate at will, but not to educate its children. We're talking about some of the most well-educated, passionate teachers in the system. Out of work. 

While Ford caps public sector wage increases below inflation for those lucky enough to remain employed (approximately 1 million workers), he has raised wages for his own friends.

But perhaps most insulting of all is that he is giving his government two extra months off. That's right. The government gets a five-month vacation.

I mean, on the plus side, that's five months where they can't do any damage (and as a friend put it, every time one of them opens their mouths, the chances of Scheer becoming PM drop by 2%). I'm all for them never coming back, personally.

But no one had better ever, ever, complain about teachers getting summers off in my presence ever again or I will smack them right back into the days of the rural one-room schoolhouse with my goddamned learning stick, I swear to fuck.

I'm going to go and listen to some very loud, very silly metal, and hopefully get some of the anger out of my system.

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[smhwpf]

Rage indeed. Utter scum. Hope you're still in work tomorrow, but whatever happens it's so utterly awful for so many good people. Fuck these bastards.

[sabotabby]

It's a human tragedy.

There are now students who would graduate who won't. Whose mental health would improve and now won't. Whose crises may have gotten caught and mitigated and who may have been connected with supports who now won't.

All so that a small minority of rich people can pay less tax and the boors get connected with beer more conveniently.

[minoanmiss]

But no one had better ever, ever, complain about teachers getting summers off in my presence ever again or I will smack them right back into the days of the rural one-room schoolhouse with my goddamned learning stick, I swear to fuck.


*starts saving money for your bail*
(I mean that as encouragement to do so)
(am being told about Pokemon so concentration is hard)

[sabotabby]

It's two years that I've had long poles because my projector is ceiling-mounted and the remote is missing, and I am too short to reach. It was only in the last few weeks that my students realized why I keep calling them my learning sticks.

(Not that I'd ever use them on a kid. They are reserved to help educate the idiots in the comments sections.)

[ironed_orchid]

I think it's getting close to eat the rich time.

Our Prime Minister just signed off on a pay rise for Members of Parliament which means he gets an extra 11K, right after cutting penalty rates for people who work nights and weekends, who tend to be in the lowest paid industries.

I am hoping that you get good news tomorrow.

[sabotabby]

There is no good news. There is only not being the one who gets the bad news. Which, in my case, I'm not one of the ones who got the bad news.

MPPs get a cost-of-living raise here because living in Toronto is sooooo expensive, unlike public-sector workers who just got an effective wage-freeze, and minimum-wage people who also got frozen.

[ironed_orchid]

I'm relieved you will still have a job and roof over your head while you continue to fight for education.