How right that is. As of yesterday the teachers took the next step. It started off as an understandable protest. I don´t agree with what they believe, but we all do have the right to manifest our discontent with the government and demand that it gives us what we need. Then it moved into the stage of an annoyance and an inconvience. The centro is not a fun place to go.Or even a safe place for that matter. The idea of the planton, how does that win support for your protest? The centro of the city generates so much money and is key to our economic survival in Morelos. How can we survive if the tourists refuse to go to the historic sites? It became real and very scary yesterday when they went out of control. How can it be that they not only blocked the highways for 5 or 6 hours but people couldn´t get to hospitals, they beat a woman who was just trying to get a bus of autistic kids through. What is wrong with these people? How can they call themselves educators? And who would leave their kids in the classroom with anyone of them?
My opinion of each and every one of the dissenting teachers has reached a new low. I could watch and say I don´t agree but you know, they have their right. I could be ideologically enraged that kids aren´t in school and teachers don´t even know what they are fighting for. I could argue the points of the Alianza (which this all has made me cement my belief yet even more)...but now it is personal. Now it is too far. 2 hours to take a trip home that takes 20 minutes. A taxi ride that should cost 50 pesos that was bartered down to 100. No mames guey. Wake up and smell the coffee...this is ruining our well being...economically, morally, and physically.
My message to these igornant egotistical hijos de la chingada...
Give it up, go home. Find a productive way to fight your battle. Start off by knowing your battle...are you against the ACE? Are you an agent of some clandestent political movement. Article 3 is not in jeapordy. Nor is the price of basic products. Nor is our livihood....What ACE offers is progress and quality...something private schools have figured out many years ago. If society only thinks in "I", the WE that makes up our city, our state, and our country will never be able to move out out this nightmare we are living right now.
You anger me. I am proud to be an educator in Morelos. I am proud to be forming the next generation of minds in this country. What about you? You worry about your automatic plaza yet you can´t pass a basic skills test? What tools are you giving the future generations? Year after year public schools are bashed for the poor quality of education. The quality of education is you.
You have proven to be ignorant, you have proven to be lacking even the most basic understanding of what it means to protest or to be fighting for something. Look at your social history. Look back in your own history books. Those people had a right to fight. Do you? Do you REALLY believe the shit you tell people? It is crap. Know the truth and then come back.
Don´t paralyze the city. Don´t starve us, and don´t put us in bodily harm just because YOU don´t want to lose your safety net. Educate yourself and learn to compete. Better yet... Fuck you, you bum. Learn what it means to really be a teacher. What it really means to educate.
My respects go to those teachers who have gone against the union and who have kept what is most imporant in mind...the children. My respects to the teachers who aren´t going to the marches by force and who are attempting to teach no matter the cost.
Morality has a price and if it means the local union doesn´t accept you, than guess what take that black mark because it is one to be proud of. When this is all said and done, I know what side i want to be on.
The side of reason, the side of justice and the side of peace.
STOP THE VIOLENCE, STOP HOLDING US HOSTAGE.
1 comment:
this is a very powerful posting. not knowing the intricacies of the situation, i'm unable to comment further - but am sorry for your frustration with your fellow educators. it's so hard to feel split among your companeros. i miss you and your passion!
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