13-year-old girl crushed to death during teacher strike

[giblets]

Regardless of whether that is true, how does it make retirement a petty issue?

[Tupac Shakur]

I didn't say it was a petty issue.

[giblets]

Hey.

[Kuciwalker]

Hence, why I consider this petty. They're not coal miners, they're teachers. Their jobs are pretty cushy as jobs go.

You are a ****ing moron. If teachers' retirements were "petty" benefits then you wouldn't care about them. The fact that they are so expensive that you care necessarily implies that they are also very valuable.

[Egbert]

Hence, why I consider this petty. They're not coal miners, they're teachers. Their jobs are pretty cushy as jobs go.

Contending with a room full of children, and trying to get them to actually learn, is far from my idea of cushy. Throw in snarky parents, education bureaucrats, school boards and so forth and one gets further from "cushy". I shudder at the very thought.

[Asher]

Also throw in a lack of respect.

[MikeH]

You have to spend all day in a room with people like HC!

[kittenOFchaos]

Why don't you just keep working? It's not as though teaching is a physically demanding profession that one can't do past a certain age.

I dread to think of having to deal with teenagers at the age of 65. It is tough enough as an energetic 30 year old. Though not appreciated by the unintiated, teaching is mentally tiring, can be very high pressure and demands alot of a person. I rarely see teachers approaching retirement and think we could/should be getting a few more years out of them, quite the reverse.

[kittenOFchaos]

You are a ****ing moron. If teachers' retirements were "petty" benefits then you wouldn't care about them. The fact that they are so expensive that you care necessarily implies that they are also very valuable.

They aren't that expensive...

[OneFootInTheGrave]

in short - you must be nuts to become a teacher in the UK.

[Tupac Shakur]

teaching is mentally tiring, can be very high pressure and demands alot of a person.

That doesn't sound much different from most jobs in today's society. It also doesn't explain why you think it's a good idea for yourself and your peers (male British educators) to spend 20% of your lives (on average) retired from a job you could still perform, wasting valuable human capital in the process.

[kittenOFchaos]

teaching is mentally tiring, can be very high pressure and demands alot of a person.

That doesn't sound much different from most jobs in today's society. It also doesn't explain why you think it's a good idea for yourself and your peers (male British educators) to spend 20% of your lives (on average) retired from a job you could still perform, wasting valuable human capital in the process.

Why is it a good idea? Frees up jobs for the next generation amongst other things. The crime is if people retire without passing on their skills.

[Jon Miller]

Why should people retire/why should people expect to retire?

I never understood this.

I sorta expect that people should work until they are unable to.

JM

[Hauldren Collider]

Retiring is fine. If you've saved enough money to live out the rest of your life without working, there's nothing wrong with doing exactly that.

[giblets]

But people who want their pensions are just being petty?