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(7,737 posts)I had another colleague ask me for a letter of recommendation again this morning.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)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)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.
2naSalit
(85,639 posts)dsp3000
(468 posts)I couldn't stomach one day in that field.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)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.
SunSeeker
(51,302 posts)Warpy
(110,746 posts)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)How can you even respond to that. Shes right. She has nothing left to give.
Hurts my heart
cab67
(2,946 posts)....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.