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and reminder that the opportunity cost of a few days’ strike is far outweighed by teachers being overworked to the bone without adequate compensation or psychological support, resulting in the best teachers weeding themselves out of the field altogether.

anti-union sentiment is hurting kids.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

see my edit. and i don’t know what shipmate means.

[–] wanderingmagus 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Force of habit from almost a decade in the Navy, it's a term of "endearment" that was intended by politicians and bureaucrats to be a "polite" term that can be universally applied regardless of rank, but is usually applied out of exasperation when actual insult isn't warranted. Apologies for the unfamiliar term.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

oh lol i thought it was some chess reference i somehow was unaware of

[–] wanderingmagus 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It would totally make sense for some sailor to use it that way too after a night on liberty in port, but alas no.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

thanks for the clarification :) i believe you are on my side but im still gonna maintain that you badly maligned the meaning of the commenter’s post lol. i put the remainder of my thoughts here