Isnt this simply AMAZING? Just facinating!

I will never argue with you in public but wait till you bring that sexy ass home there will be hell to pay woman lol.

Sorry for thread derailment Kunoichi.

 

They have a couple youtube vids like this, its crazy how small we are.

 

I'm so glad you are back, and thanks for the vote of confidence that I wasn't trying to be offensive. :smt058 You got the point that I was trying to make, and the only reason that I used race was because I knew that was an analogy that could be understood. I was meaning mindset and not actions. A person who is racist or sexist today still thinks the same as a person that was a racist or sexist in the past. Their goal is to oppress people based on a physical characteristic. They may go about it differently today than they did in prior years, but their mentality is still the same.

 

I think that it is amazing how small we are in comparison to the universe. It's actually mind-blowing when you try to comprehend it all. Great pic, Kunoichi. It helps to put things in perspective.

 

i love it kuni...!!! could you give me the link...??? i'd love to send this to my kids teachers

 

I co sign this.. get back on topic!
This is very interresting and thank you Kuno for posting that.
I eat this stuff up!!!

 

Teachers simply don't make enough money. If I stopped doing what I do now and went into teaching I'd take a 40k a year pay cut.

 

This is one of the vids I saw a couple years back

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Oh no problem, EVER. I never mind when topics sidetrack, it makes for passionate reading. Eventually it might return when someone comes along and just reads post #1 and comments.

 

I've said it before and I'll say it again, American teachers are severely undervalued. I'm a 2nd year out teacher and I make twice that amount. By the time I've been teaching for 10 years it will be close to 3 times as much. But still, many more women than men are attracted to teaching in Australia. I don't think that's got anything to do with salary.

 

What do you think it is then?

 

Well, I guess teaching is a nurturing profession. Like nursing etc, usually female dominated fields...

Plus teaching is also not esteemed highly, that ol' "if you can't do, teach" BS... So maybe partly an ego thing..

 

That's nice. If you work in the right area you can get paid. Up North in Chicago, you can get paid six figures. Do that for a number of years, invest, then move on to less disenfranchised area...

 

What's special about Northern Chicago?

 

That's also a possibility. I've always thought about teaching but not until I make my first million or if I lose my wife and my kids need me to be home.

 

Long story short...a good amount of wealth in that area, maybe the recession put a damper on wages up there as well, but I'm sure they're still making good money.

 

Kinda interesting that teachers get paid MORE to work in more privileged areas.......? Where's the incentive to work in at-risk areas?

 

Exactly...especially when teachers in hay area get treat like crap by the admin & students, teachers getting, mulled, murdered & raped, so sad.

 

Definitely sad. Sounds like a fundamentally flawed system. Where's that education overhaul?

 

Right.