Believe me, if one spends 5 years in school to attain an ed degree, then jumps thru all the hoops, background checks, testing, continuously paying for/taking classes to keep certs current, work 14 hour/days doing school related activities (in school & at home) to make a decent livng doing something that's quite enjoyable;;;; it sounds completely nuts to rock the boat and be looking for new employment in our world today. I really like the summers off too actually.
I did donate a couple hundred to Palin last year. We have voted for repubs since before Reagen, write letters to our unresponsive politicals, and generally keep up on what;s going on.
By the way, talking about cowardice & consequences makes you sound quite foolish, where have you been all your life? You sound as bad as the libs that claim the rich will have to pay for nat health care for everybody.
No offense, we'll keep our positions, continue to vote for conservatives, live our lives, and scratch our heads at your outlook.
No offense intended, but you may go into defensive mode long before you ever finish reading this post. I may be wrong about you, but there are a whole lot of people in other fields, not just in teaching, who feel about the same as you do.
What I am referring to? To your wonderfully frank line: “it sounds completely nuts to rock the boat.” That is precisely the predicament that those who are out to steal our liberty have created for you. They know precisely how you feel and have been making a winning gamble that you and those like you will do nothing to undermine their racket if it will endanger your own. See my tag line.
There are so many regs (statism) and collectivist thugs (fascism) that you feel up the creek without a paddle to do real battle with them. The threat of getting out of the canoe and portaging out of the ever dwindling lake our masters have you locked up in isn’t that difficult were you to wildcat strike, and if done right, it would put the fear of God into those schemers who’ve been milking you and us all these years. When it comes time to retire, you won’t like what they have planned for you (and they aren’t talking about it either).
But canoes are so easily upset: can’t even stand up like a man cause it may rock the boat (ruining your relatively ok status quo). The water simply doesn’t hot enough to jump out, eh brother frog?
I spent five years in school, worked 90 hour weeks, lived a quarter of my year out of the country, and gave up my career to pursue an injustice, not so much to me as to others, from which I have yet to earn a dime. So far, it has cost me over !,000,000 in lost income not to mention nearly a decade of brutally physical and demeaning work.
No sale.