• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    8 hours ago

    I’m thinking about the teachers I had in school and trying to work out what they would be doing if they couldn’t have been teachers.

    Some of them definitely would have worked in HR. Being the teacher was their access to a world of petty vindictiveness where they were absolute rulers and could do whatever they wanted.

    • ILoveUnions@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      several of the teachers at my school were retired lawyers or other professionals. Most were there with masters and by choice. (Public school, for the record). Not everyone’s district pays them so little