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BLISTERING (Original Post) kpete Jul 2021 OP
Teachers too Thtwudbeme Jul 2021 #1
Already happening! SheltieLover Jul 2021 #2
I allowed my certificate to lapse. murielm99 Jul 2021 #7
A very sad truth. 2naSalit Jul 2021 #3
hats off to those working as nurses and doctors. dsp3000 Jul 2021 #4
And THAT is... Moostache Jul 2021 #5
K & R & Retweeted! SunSeeker Jul 2021 #6
Take it to the bank Warpy Jul 2021 #8
Sad but true! Tadpole Raisin Jul 2021 #9
I hate to say it.... cab67 Jul 2021 #10
This nurse is BOOKMARKING. No audio at work. Maru Kitteh Jul 2021 #11
I have nothing to add, but gods bless 'em all. Hekate Jul 2021 #12
I couldn't possibly K & R this any harder. Maru Kitteh Jul 2021 #13

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
2. Already happening!
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 12:11 PM
Jul 2021

And I agree, teachers as well.

They spent years attaining licensure in both cases.

They did not sign up to be abused by magats & wild students.

murielm99

(30,617 posts)
7. I allowed my certificate to lapse.
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 02:03 PM
Jul 2021

I am 72 years old and high risk. I was not going to go out and sub for unruly students. The backup from administration is not there any more.

A few weeks ago, I got a call from a nearby district asking me if I would teach first grade in the fall. I told them my certificate had lapsed. They told me they could get a temporary certificate for me. I turned them down.

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
5. And THAT is...
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 01:55 PM
Jul 2021

exactly what an empty bag of fucks looks like.

I happen to agree.
It is time for mandatory testing + masks for anyone unvaccinated.

Get stuck, or you're fucked.

Warpy

(110,746 posts)
8. Take it to the bank
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 02:25 PM
Jul 2021

A lot of nurses will need serious decompression time and since they're not paid well enough for things like sabbaticals, they'll find other work to do. There's already a bottleneck in education since PhD prepared nursing instructors are paid more poorly than floor nurses.

Nurses are going to quit and so are doctors. The same thing happened when we were deluged with AIDS in the early 80s. Hospital CEOs will be delighted to have even less staff to pay. Patients will suffer. It's coming.

I knew this country would be especially hard hit, not just from Covid, but from pigheaded ignorance at the top and a health care system that has abused patients and caregivers alike since Nixon fouled it up in the 70s, a giveaway to Edgar Kaiser.

Tadpole Raisin

(972 posts)
9. Sad but true!
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 02:26 PM
Jul 2021

How can you even respond to that. She’s right. She has nothing left to give.

Hurts my heart…

cab67

(2,946 posts)
10. I hate to say it....
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 02:34 PM
Jul 2021

....but nurses and teachers are only going to start getting respect, and the salaries they deserve, if a large enough number walk away and the positions remain unfilled because no one would be willing to put up with what nurses and teachers do for the pittance they earn.

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