1 yr. ago • 97%

She did her best ok?

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We referring to teachers as "it" now?

Damn. Underpaid and dehumanized all at once. That's gotta be rough.

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- Pfft, rest of the world should start following Finns on this and call everyone and everything 'it'! Except pets for some reason.
  
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  I know a guy who calls people "se" and things "hän"
  
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- Cut a bit of slack as the world adjusts to not making assumptions. Yeah "they" would have been better.
  
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- Trap em with a bunch of nazis, minorities disproportionately penalised for minor infringements, throw in some beatings and torture and you pretty much have the American prison system!
  
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- As a non-native speaker, referring to a single teacher as "they" is not very intuitive (although correct)...
  
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  Um.. How about "... their money..."?
  
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  I very much agree. Learning English as a foreign language, it feels very wrong to use plural for a single person. I'm still not quite used to it! Although, had I been taught that early on, I doubt it would feel any weirder than using "you are" for a single person.
  
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  is not very intuitive though
  
  Yes it is. It's completely intuitive. Native English speakers do it all the time every day. The singular "they" is used literally without conscious thought. The only time it becomes controversial is with transphobes talking about specific people who do not identify with their gender assigned at birth. Even transphobes use singular "they" without thinking in contexts like this OP where the gender is unknown. (Which is why their "but it's bad grammar!" arguments fall flat.)
  
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"it's" own money? I'm assuming you meant "its" but even then your teacher is an object?

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- Permanently Deleted
  
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- Don't assume someone's pronouns. "It" is a safe bet these days.
  
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  "Their" assumes they're still human though
  
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Anyone who thinks this has never hosted a birthday party for a bunch of grade schoolers. I get enough pizza so they can have a couple of full pizza slices each, they take a few bites, then immediately go back to goofing around with their friends.

Then I have leftover pizza for a long time. XD

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- I think the joke is that a lot of us were little shits that didn't appreciate some of the only adults that cared to see us succeed.
  
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  True words, yet probably applies to every generation.
  I have a handful of teachers who have had a great influence on my life and they were very happy that I reached out decades later to tell them so.
  
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It's all about the intentions. Not the quantity.

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For some reason those school party pizzas tasted so much better than normal

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- I feel like pizza always tastes a little better in social settings. Does anyone else feel that?
  
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  Food should always be enjoyed with others
  
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  I do
  
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- Forbidden fruit.
  
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It‘s not much but it‘s honest work!

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Kid me: Pizza is pizza.

Adult me: Pizza is pizza, unless it's Papa John's.

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i have never seen a meme this sad before

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I learned recently that teachers in my area actually make decent money. Not like.. Tech industry money, but for my area they make $30/h on the low end, $43/h median, and $52.60/h on the high end.

That's a decent living that most people don't experience. I'm sure some places are awful for teachers though.

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- Based on the $ ima assume you're American and probably live in a high cost of living area, they get paid that much to compensate for high prices. They're probably as poor as the rest of us.
  
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  Average wage in my area is around $30/h.
  
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- Future teacher here, my salary starts at 52$ CAD/hour, which is great! But I'm only paid for the time I'm in class, which is roughly 3h45 per day...
  
  This pay doesn't include the time to prepare the class, the time to correct, the time to attend mandatory meetings on the lunch break. Finally, we don't have our vacation payed, so they split our pay to give us a salary during the summer (okay this last point is fair, but it illustrates that hourly salary in education is not representative).
  
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So are we now just reposting all the old memes from reddit?

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- Well I don't go to Reddit so it works for me. Down vote if you don't like it.
  
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- If you look at OP's profile, that is exactly what s/he's doing.
  
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Was this not the top post of all time from reddit? Huh.

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- It's not much.
  
  But it's dishonest work.
  
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