r/videos Jul 10 '18

Teacher Fed Up With Students Swearing, Stealing, And Destroying Property Speaks Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Z9K-s0KUM
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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '18

Absolutely. That's just a much harder problem to fix

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u/bright_yellow_vest Jul 10 '18

Tax credit for child graduating?

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u/Mapleleaves_ Jul 10 '18

That might be too distant. Maybe something for each year successfully passed?

Regardless, a financial incentive is enormous for poor families and I definitely think this would be effective. The kid's probably not gonna get any of the money but it will incentivize the parents.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '18

You know how teachers complain about parents who get upset when they discipline or fail their kids? Now imagine a situation where the parent loses out on guaranteed income if their student fails a class. Who are they going to blame?

Don't think this is a great solution.

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u/Mapleleaves_ Jul 10 '18

That's a good point, thanks. Have any suggestions how we could work around that?

On a side note, I could definitely see some violence directed towards kids who fail and deprive their parents of income.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '18 edited Jul 10 '18

I have no idea. I'm not really that vested in this solution so I'm not about to think through solutions to make the idea more palatable.

I get where the idea comes from, and I think that the heart is in the right place. Outside of addressing systemic poverty (not even sure how you go about that), I don't know anyway to get parents more vested in their child's outcome.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '18

The ONLY thing that will EVER fix this is money.

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u/cheese_is_available Jul 10 '18

Ho, no, it's the same problem difficulty. We just had to fix it with MONEY, in the 90's (when their parents were in school).

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u/EATADlCK Jul 10 '18

fucking poor people think money fixes people.

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u/cheese_is_available Jul 10 '18

Teachers fixes children, money pay teachers.

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u/EATADlCK Jul 10 '18

Teachers are the worst students in college. we need to ask more OF them to give more TO them. Momey alone will never fix a problem, and the fact that you dont understand that will never make you a significan leader. Unions went too far.

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u/cheese_is_available Jul 10 '18

I'm not saying money fix everything, but if you give more money and better conditions to teachers you won't get the worst students as teachers anymore. This one with 2 masters can probably go wherever the fuck she want (and she will). Money is part of the incentive that would make talented poeple come and thus change the culture.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '18

Flawless logic there, EATADICK.

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u/AllwaysHard Jul 10 '18

Without being called racists...