Remodeling Maidiac
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Who's crying? Now, since you know it all, let me fill in the blanks. I teach in a PRISON therefore teach year-round. There is NO tenure. That myth of a cushy retirement and health benefits, man, I wish you were right. I'll never get to retire and that's the goal as these retirement plans continue to up the retirement age, and that's fine. The health care myth is another one where I wish you were right. That's another reason many can't and won't retire - it eats up a lot of what retirement you do get when you retire. So fuck you for saying I was crying - you have no clue. And we're also SECURITY. When something happens at the prison - riot, mass shake down, etc, we're pulled from the classroom and put in the pods right along with the officers because we get the same exact training they officers do. You wouldn't last a day there.
Off topic but quick question. (I guess on topic because you are 'wasting' the government's/taxpayer's money trying to move criminals from a life of crime to productive individuals of society. I would give you a 15% pay raise if I could vote on that.) What do you teach? (Man, some people are just so stupid as to what a benefit to society/America is. No wonder we have some politicians who walk all over us and we're none the wiser, > Republicans)
See, these right-wing playbook readers don't understand that today's inmates are tomorrow's neighbors. Ever since that sillyass "crackdown on crime" started about 25 years ago, police, but mostly lawyers, judges and the government have been trying to make us all guilty of something, hence prison population in America is stupid huge. Almost all of us know at least one or two people who have been to jail/prison. It's big business.
My job is to get them out and make them taxpaying productive members of society. That's it. I teach mostly math although I'm a social studies person with a masters in history. Shouldn't surprise anyone that research shows that over 70% of freshly minted high school "graduates" cannot even pass the GED! Hell, read these threads and it shouldn't be too much of a shock.
While your posting history speaks poorly of you I give you kudos for your job. I was 17 when sent to prison and under educated to that point. I got my education and basic skills taught to me in prison. Thanks to not just being locked in a cell 24/7 I now have a highly productive career.
If you didn't post in such an inflammatory manner all the time you might get better responses.