Thank you for this -- I loved the balance.
Sometimes I think we're so hyper-focused on being better than someplace/someone else that we forget to just be the best version of ourselves . . . we can see others as solely displays for inspiration, rather than competition . . .
Thank you so much Joyce--I'm glad you enjoyed it, albeit a difficult and unfortunate topic and turn of events for all of us . . .
Beautifully stated.
If only we saw this level of compensation as something to aspire to, or to protect, or to expand.
Instead, it is framed as something to resent for others/for teachers. Instead, it is seen/framed as something to rail against.
But then again, I think resentment is easier to breed and participate in . . .
Teachers are regularly belittled and dismissed due to the myth of the "extraordinary" amounts of time-off -- not just summers, but weekends and holidays too. So, I appreciate a comparison to the local police department.
Allow me to add: teachers' time-off is very much constrained whereas in other professions time-off can be taken at any point in the calendar year. It's very hard--at times impossible--for a teacher, for whatever reason, to take time-off (earned sick-leave and PTO), during the school year.
Writer of intertwining topics—things are much more interconnected than we realize . . .
