Conservatives hate teachers because teachers don’t need to work when kids aren’t in school for the summer. That’s the only complaint I’ve ever truly heard from them. Meanwhile, those same teachers are up stupid early, on time every fucking day, dealing with over-filled classes of every type of child, and then doing even more labour in the evenings as they aren’t officially given much of any time to create plans or mark work.
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2026
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They also do work during the summer, making lesson plans, teaching summer school, working a second job, etc.
But if Republicans made policy decisions based on reality they wouldn't be Republicans.
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Their pay is insanely low as well, and they can either not get paid for summer, or take their pay even lower per month to cover summer too
There's plenty more that they complain about with teachers. They complain that they are ineffective, promote progressive ideals, target their children's shitty behavior, aren't held accountable, and the whole "those who can't do, teach" bullshit.
I used to be a teacher. I've seen it all, heard it all.
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US politics as seem by Europeans:
except blue is more like "we're strongly opposed to diarrhea forever, but this undercooked fish should be good in the fridge for another few days right?"
As a European, to me it looks like blue is a free puppy, like the picture.
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Corey A. DeAngelis is an American advocate for school choice.
DeAngelis was an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. He worked for the American Federation for Children, a conservative education nonprofit group founded by Betsy DeVos, from 2021 to 2024.
He joined the board of directors of the Liberty Justice Center in 2022. He has appeared on Fox News multiple times to as a commentator on education policy.
DeAngelis has described school choice as "a winner for Trump". He contributed to the Project 2025 document, in the section discussing education and the dissolution of the U.S. Department of Education.
In 2024, he released the book The Parent Revolution.
This guy's literally done nothing his entire life besides get paid by right-wing think tanks to undercut public schools
Why do people in the US equate "choice" with destroying other people's protections?
- "School choice" = removing teacher's work protections.
- "Health care choice" = no healthcare unless you can pay through the nose.
- "Food choice" = some of the worst food standards in the hemisphere.
Almost all of it is, or at least originates, from racism, at least with schools.
When public schools allowed racial integration , school choice became a mechanism for racists to pull their kids from mixed schools.
It grew into things like charter schools that are private, often religious, schools that get public funding and maintain segregation.
It's a classic conservative propaganda technique to name their evil plans the opposite of what they actually mean. If it contains the word "freedom" it's about tyranny. If it says "protect" it means persecution, and if it says "children" just mentally append "fuck" in front of it.
Right, but I don't think I even want "choice". I just want the best. The best education, the best food, the best healthcare. If there isn't any choice...that's fine as long as it's high quality.
And what are you willing to give to the society around you? Your best? Is that what you're doing right now? I sure hope so because otherwise you sound like a petulant child.
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If they want to dismantle a union, start with police unions. But I'm sure that's the one and only union they would support. Tells you something about these assholes. And police.
Counterpoint: Unions who break up strikes aren’t unions
Police aren't working class, I don't make the rules
True. They're the ruling class' private army. They don't count.
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I wonder if they feel the same way about police unions, or wait no I don't wonder.
They'll save them for last. The brownshirts always get what's coming.
Great so teachers have no support, and people wonder why we have a shortage of teachers
It's by design.
Once upon a time, the USA had a strong middle class. Billionaires got taxed heavily, and our public schools were the envy of the world. Well funded and produced a lot of great students.
But educated people are difficult to control and even harder to dupe. The GOP realized that if they can gut public education, the masses will become malleable again. Meanwhile, the children of the rich can continue to go to expensive private institutions for their own education. So the rich stay educated, and the poor's go in the gutter.
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I already support unions (in one) and adore teachers because I pretty much worship at the church of education. They have one of the most important jobs in society. It's kinda hard to make me more sympathetic to their plight, but hey, you did it.
Those public school teachers have had it too good for too long.
The weakest union with the lowest paid members? Clearly doing the Lord's work here
WE'RE ASSEMBLING A TEAM TO TRIPLE WORLD HUNGER!! BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!!
They’ve done the decades of work to turn people against unions, convincing MAGAts that unions are proto-communist organizations that extort unfair wages though dishonest practices while sitting around not working. They have people looking over at them saying “how come you get paid so much?” Instead of “I should get paid that much too.”
People are dumb. Whatcha gonna do.
They never stop to question how successful long lasting companies that have been unionized for decades are still around
I bet every one of the ghouls doing this were shitkids in school and resent teachers because they tried to do their fucking jobs
My conservative civics teacher once said that all unions, with the exception of Teacher Unions were obsolete. I wonder how he's feeling right now.
"All unions are bad except my union" is the much more consistent application of inherently hypocritical conservative values, compared to what they can say to a broad audience through right wing media. Hilarious.
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That is a sack of shit in a blue coat. He can fuck right off.
Reminder that the Republican party are traitors to the United States of America who work tirelessly to weaken our nation and harm our populace.
And that makes anyone who still supports them traitors too. Ignorance isn't an excuse.
Smart people don't vote Republican. That is why they are destroying our educational system.
A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
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Can't you guys just rob banks like normal crooks?
The crooks run the banks actually
I never understood why they burned witches but now I see how that would be a satisfying conclusion to some events.
Why? They were well-read women, aka "woke women" so they "sent a message" (don't mess with the patriarchy). Also, King James, his Witch General Finders, and the "demonologists" were all men, and they found women an easier target to do bad things too. They argued that "their feminine wiles" misled many men; therefore, they're in cahoots with the dark side.
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You can tell Trump has dementia: in the retirement home my grandpa was in at the end of his life, they also labeled the different rooms for when the residents got confused and lost.
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Why would you admit to that?
Because Republicans hate education. Most of the maga crowd will cheer this as a way to get back at the "wokes", or "intellectual elites".
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"I love the poorly educated! " - trump
They're just so much easier to fool into voting against their own best interests
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I can top that.
They are capturing and selling horses off to slaughter, at a severe loss. They spend up to $3,000 to capture wild horses then sell middlemen for $25. Those dudes then sell the houses abroad to slaughter plants for $750.
There’s absolutely no fucking reason to do this. They tried to buy gas chambers for to kill the horses faster.
https://www.rawstory.com/wild-horses/
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/us/trump-wild-horses-legal-loophole-slaughter.html
EDIT: Sorry, I just realize my comment is not related to work reform. I just wanted to point out how much more evil and cruel these people are. They are vile.
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hey guys, we're assembling a team to hunt down and scalp Nazis.
you in?
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If an elementary school teacher starts offing these people, I would not convict
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is this real? or just rage bait?
Actually, thank you for asking this; with so much insanity coming from this administration I accepted it as real without question. However, after some searching it's unfortunately a real Facebook post by a real asshole. (hopefully that works, Facebooks interface is such garbage)
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If there was any justice these people will end up in jail for long long time
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