Are school teachers bourgeois? (hexbear.net)

submitted 10 months ago by ButtBidet@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Consider:

-holders of advanced degrees and credentials (gatekeeping)

-assigns labour (literally called worksheets!) to pupils (proles)

-gives out sanctions, extra work, and bad reviews to punish bad work behaviour

-literally trained in discipline

-sharing of knowledge is forbidden, calls it cheating

-insists that you not work directly with your best friend, assigns you pairwork with a gender you're not yet comfortable with

-according to most media, teachers are the most liberal profession

-creates quarterly performance reports for workers, stressing constant need to improvement (report cards)

-have direct access to whiteboard markers and notebooks, the means of instruction!

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[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

no, but they are cops

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[-] worldonaturtle@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

Teachers dont own the school but the principal might own it and if not the principal the superintendent. Teachers are workers!

[-] TraumaDumpling@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

not bourgeois but they are kinda like cops, obviously horrible under capitalism but probably a good/necessary thing under communism.

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[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

tequila-sunset :

[-] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

To add on to that, they even have significant amounts of capital! They get paid tons, relative to the proles allowances. They also use a lot of their money to buy school supplies, and the school supplies are used to do their job, which produces money. Teachers literally do M-C-M.