[etni] Fwd: Let's just work for free ;)

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Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:39:13 -0700
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From: David Graniewitz <graniewitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Hi guys,
I thought that you might like a chuckle over your
Hanukkah "vacation' (I have written that in inverted commas
as I am sure that, like me, you too are slaving over tests
and papers that you so foolishly left yourselves to mark
over the holiday.
Anyway, the following I have copied and pasted from the
Times website. The writer is one of the presenters of a
weekly satirical podcast called "The Bugle" that can be
found on the Times website www.timesonline.co.uk. It is well
worth listening to. You can download it onto an ipod or such
device,or listen to it on your computer.
Before any of you start getting hot under the collar, I
would like to point out that it is tongue in cheek.

Have a good one
David Graniewitz


Don't pay teachers. That'll learn 'em

The Bugle gives the politicians a simple lesson in how to
solve our financial woes Andy Zaltzman

As the credit crunch sinks its spiky gnashers ever deeper
into Britain's single remaining financial buttock, the
Government and its loyal Opposition have been pondering
whether to spend or save our way out of their trouble.

The Conservatives' efforts to make political headway through
the economic swamp have resembled the incompetent thrashings
of a congenital non-swimmer. Not only have they failed to
shoot the sitting duck that is the Brown regime, but they
now appear to have stood the duck up, lent it a Kalashnikov,
placed its wing on the trigger and aimed it at their own
kneecaps.

Gordon Brown has brazenly flouted received political wisdom
by scoring better in the polls the worse his situation has
become - how James Callaghan must have wished for some of
what Mr Brown has been killing and eating for his breakfast.

At some point, cuts in public spending will have to be made,
either imminently or, preferably, after we are all dead when
they affect us less grievously. This could be achieved by
selling some of the nation's less productive counties to
Russian oil billionaires, by privatising the monarchy or by
postponing the kind of futuristic but unnecessary projects
with which governments become so jigglingly excited (for
example, monitoring where people drive via a complex
satellite tracking system, rather than simply installing a
gate and a special bucket on some busy stretches of road; or
electronically tagging all 6.7 billion potential asylum
seekers at present roaming the world, to give us early
warning of when they start massing on our watery borders).

Britain has always been sceptical about teachers being paid.
Whenever the issue rears its annually thwacked head, the
view seems to be: why should teachers get more than me, when
I didn't pay any attention to them when I was at school? And
if these self-styled guardians of our national future are
truly as busy as they claim to be, they should need no money
at all, given that they have no time in which to spend it.

More importantly, teaching is both reputed to be, and
marketed as, spiritually rewarding - why then sully it with
money? Teachers debase the purity of their profession by
demanding adequate recompense for their labours. The
satisfaction of seeing errant students learn how to endure
an entire lesson without throwing an object or attempting to
photograph their own genitals should be more than sufficient
incentive.

Teachers occupy a similar position to our Armed Forces -
they operate in difficult conditions, with little support
from the Government, lack adequate equipment and funding,
and often face hostile resistance, leaving many mentally
scarred for life. If the Armed Forces can cope with their
disparagingly minimal wages, it is not too much to ask
teachers to manage with no wages at all. If they don't want
to accept this deal, The Bugle is confident that Wikipedia
can educate our youngsters to a perfectly acceptable level
of semi-knowledge.



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