boo. Video unavailable in my location.

Do you mind posting the date these clips originally aired (I'm presuming they are from the daily show)? People outside of the United States can't view them, but we can find them on Canada's equivilent websites if you know what to look for.

Transcript please! This video is unavailable in my stinking location.

1st clip: 3/3/11
2nd clip: 5/13/10

Thanks for those.
I don't watch TV, so I don't see/hear all of the RIDICULOUS shit being spouted by people on news channels, THANK GODS. Just watching that first video clip made me want to stab my eardrums to keep from hearing any more of their idiotic, obviously middle-class-hating rhetoric.

Sometimes, I wonder what happened to pure logic.

My mum taught elementary and then primary school for thirty years. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I remember her bringing home work every night and being up until 9 or 10 doing it. I remember spending hours in the summer helping her put together new "learning units" and worksheets and buying more math manipulatives etc etc etc. (The words your sixth-grader doesn't want to hear? 'I need to stop by the teacher store to get some flashcards.')

Yeah, so that thing about how teachers don't work all the time? My anecdotal evidence (backed up by studies conducted by the AFT and others) suggests that this is FALSE.

Also...if John Stewart thinks school teachers should make $50 000 a year plus bennies...how much does he think college profs should make? AND, even a more exciting figure...how about us adjuncts?!?!

My total salary this year will be $38, 000 from which I will pay about $3000 to purchase insurance and then another $200 a month for actual medical care and THEN student loans etc...

Yeah. Fun times.

Transcript? Can't watch these in thew UK.

Teachers do NOT get the summer off! There's always summer school. Also, I remember many of the teachers at my high school had summer jobs because they wouldn't be able to survive on just their 9 month teaching job alone! And god forbid one of those jobs have anything to do with getting naked, especially if anyone found out about it...

I wonder how much money Jon Stewart makes...?

Really sorry if you can't see these videos... Jon is able to make a point and then hammer it in so completely, it's hard to get out the nail. Good news satire, and (unfortunately for those of us living in the U.S.) a lot more analysis than our so-called "news" stations.

That first one is crazy. Talk about cognitive dissonance.

"Teachers get the summers off"

This is a ridiculous misconception. A lot of teachers have to work summer school just to make ends meet. I should know, I'm a teacher.

Also, many teachers put in 10+ hour days with lesson planning, grading, and after-school activities. Teachers rarely work a typical 8 hour day.

Not to mention how much money teachers pay out-of-pocket for supplies. Most teachers have to buy a lot of their own classroom materials, including books, and sometimes even copy paper.

To say that teachers don't work as hard as someone who works on Wall Street is laughable.

You should add the clip from "I give up" today, March 28, 2011.
I can't even begin to talk about how upsetting I find this erupting war against public unions.
I especially think that the misinformation around this war the most dangerous and upsetting part.

Not that I even disagree with Jon... but aren't we missing something here? Vilifying the rich - in this case, the investment bankers especially - is just as much class warfare as vilifying the middle class teachers. It's just which side you're agreeing with.

The basic concept that people who make more money than you don't "deserve" that money, and should have to give more of it up - which I have heard constantly in the tax cuts debate - is a *huge* class warfare tactic, and in my opinion, at least, a negative one.

Not to mention that, irrespective of whether teachers are paid an appropriate amount or not, talking about teachers' *salaries* completely obscures the issue, as the majority of the budget crisis revolves around pensions and benefits, which tend to be much better for teachers than for private employees.

I guess what I'm saying is, I thought the original post was an excellent example of two sides of a class conflict, and then all of the comments have been along the lines of "heck yeah! Look at those other guys on their bad side of this issue and how they are warring on our class!" It just feels like someone's missing the point.

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