> Michael: "Teachers are (mostly) public employees. Aren't they all pretty much
> under the gun?"
>
> [WS:] Probably, but it seems that teachers are getting special
> attention, certainly more than TSA employees with whom adults interact
> more, and in more unpleasant ways, than with teachers. However, as
> Graeber observed, most Americans seem to have particular reverence for
> cops, and TSA is not unionized - so that may make a difference.
A huge difference, I'd say. And then of course the corporate elites would like teachers to become even more *like* cops than they already are. In fact they seem to want everybody to be some kind of cop, all of us policing each other.
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