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Colorado's teachers' union expects more than 400 teachers at a rally that's planned for Monday at the state's Capitol in Denver.
[...] Englewood School District, outside the capital city, announced on Sunday that schools would be closed the following day as 70 percent of its teachers had indicated they wouldn't be working Monday. It was unclear on Sunday whether more school districts would be closing.
"We are calling Monday, April 16th a day of action", Kerrie Dallman, president of the Colorado Education Association (CEA), told KDVR in Denver.
[...] According to[1] KMGH in Denver, "The CEA estimates that teachers spend on average $656 of their own money for school supplies for students." The state's teacher salaries rank 46th out of 50, with educators making an average of $46,000 per year.
Public schools are underfunded by $828 million this year, Dallman told the Post, and lawmakers have said they could inject at least $100 million more into schools--but they have yet to do so.
[...] The planned protest follows a trend that was seen in West Virginia and Kentucky before moving west this month to Oklahoma and Arizona as well as Colorado. In all the states where teachers have walked out and rallied at their Capitols, teachers have reported paying for school supplies out of pocket, working second and third jobs to make ends meet, and coping with funding shortages while their legislators hand out tax cuts to corporations.
[1] For a laugh (or perhaps a deep sigh), check out all the whitespace in the source code of the page.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by digitalaudiorock on Monday April 16 2018, @11:37PM (5 children)
I've noticed a trend for quite some time now: There seems to be an active attack on most professions that pay more than minimum wage and can't be outsourced to other countries. Two big examples are teaching and essentially all public sector jobs. It's as if there's an actual disdain for any line of work that must be done here and which actually pays a fucking living wage...can't have that right? Call it a hunch, that's not a coincidence.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @11:55PM (2 children)
Yup yup yup. Private sector has moved forward with it too, "gig economy" oh yeah baby!
Equality means the filthy rich won't be able to maintain their filthy status for long, within mere decades they'll be reduced to just stupid rich. So they have to clamp down on everyone and everything with comparatively high salaries for the most needed skills and garbage for everyone else. Modern serfdom is coming back, but hey you're free to be a serf in any city or state you'd like, yay freedom!
(Score: 2) by Shimitar on Tuesday April 17 2018, @06:27AM (1 child)
Hate to take you down man, but, hey, what makes you think you will be free to move from city to city freely in the future?
For proper serfdom, the raising cost of living will further divide the "normal people" into two:
N. 1: The ones who inherited an house from their parents, thus becoming unable to move anywhere unless selling and falling into n.2
N. 2: The ones having to "rent", which will forced to work just to sleep under a roof, forget about anything else.
The N.1 will slowly turn to jobs rooted in the community and soon also their job will be inherited from parent to child.
The N.2 will be able to move around, but bound to the lower, hardest, and less paying jobs.
Both will be unable to lift from their condition anyway, since access to the N.0 people will be restricted by marriage and family.
Welcome back, Middle Ages, but this time technology is there to help(no, stike that)enforce.
It's history and human nature, it's not "evil", it's just the way it is. But this time around, i am not sure how long it will last. Enjoy while you can, i dearly hope me and my kids will still not see this, but i am making sure both will have one house each when we parents will pass away, so they at least hope to stay N.1.
Coding is an art. No, java is not coding. Yes, i am biased, i know, sorry if this bothers you.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday April 17 2018, @02:09PM
Look into the history of blockbusting in real estate, you're not going to be allowed to passively stay in N.1.
Red pill them a bit? Make sure they get an education (which has nothing to do with state systems).
A N.2 is a N.1 who got blockbusted (not entirely of course, but ...)
The specific enforcement technology will probably be social media. To some extent you can see it already. Look at what passes for being politically correct and see how well that matches up with whats needed to survive or thrive. If a group were actively trying to destroy you and your culture and your people, it would look like ... huh... what a coincidence...
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday April 17 2018, @02:04PM (1 child)
1) for a good time tell a high school career counselor you want to apprentice into the skilled trades. Some of it is probably jealously, IBEW base rate is in the low 30s where I live which puts you about 50% higher pay than the average high school guidance counselor or teacher, LOL. Or tell them you're joining the military, I had a couple teachers near shit themselves with indignation when they found out I was going into the Army. Of course I'm so old these were former draft dodging hippie teachers, but still... Even going reserves before promising to attend college instead of going active duty triggered them pretty well.
2) Be careful looking for coincidences, next thing you know you'll see parenthesis everywhere, then pockets fill up with red pills, suddenly outta nowhere you're a full blown Nazi. Just saying there's a bit of an ... echo ... about disdain of fairly compensated skilled labor. One minute you're just a curious apolitical scholar looking into some mysterious coincidences and circumstances, next thing you know its Roman salutes and you ask all your IRL friends and it turns out they have indeed seen Kyle, ye know a kinda tall guy about this high? Listening to podcasts that haven't been approved by the SPLC, that kind of stuff. Just saying there's some things you can't unsee once you see it and you're kinda pointing the binoculars out that way and focusing in; so if you don't want to see it, best look away now and turn on some nice Seinfeld reruns or tune in CNN on the TV to inoculate yourself.
(Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Wednesday April 18 2018, @12:45AM
Holy crap. If anyone can find two words in the above post that make sense please enlighten me. I sure can't (especially #2?).