He just compared and conflated tenure (which are most strongly associated with either professors or rich high school teachers for) to the usual shittily paid teaching jobs. Nobody who works an actually shitty paying job wants tenure for that job when they could just have a better paying job, period.
Not to mention tenure does create that phenomenon, people do tend to get lazier when they feel safe and secure, it happens with anything like that. (Not saying that it's inherently a good or a bad thing, job security is obviously something desirable, but let's not pretend that teaching doesn't have a dearth of issues with regards to the general lack of competence in the profession and learned laziness in the talented few who can rest on their laurels). A lot of people simply take teaching jobs because of the sheer lack of qualifications for them. The amount of teachers I've seen who genuinely seemed to love teaching were always in the minority relative to the schools (and ironically most of said teachers tended to be male but I digress).
He's grandstanding to look good in front of his mom and the public and the reporter was a dumbass who framed her question poorly, but you can tell the guy doesn't have a clue about what it actually looks and feels like to be in most classrooms in America if he can pretend like most teachers are passionate about their jobs like this.
The guy's just dumb lmao.
He just compared and conflated tenure (which are most strongly associated with either professors or rich high school teachers for) to the usual shittily paid teaching jobs. Nobody who works an actually shitty paying job wants tenure for that job when they could just have a better paying job, period.
Not to mention tenure does create that phenomenon, people do tend to get lazier when they feel safe and secure, it happens with anything like that. (Not saying that it's inherently a good or a bad thing, job security is obviously something desirable, but let's not pretend that teaching doesn't have a dearth of issues with regards to the general lack of competence in the profession and learned laziness in the talented few who can rest on their laurels). A lot of people simply take teaching jobs because of the sheer lack of qualifications for them. The amount of teachers I've seen who genuinely seemed to love teaching were always in the minority relative to the schools (and ironically most of said teachers tended to be male but I digress).
He's grandstanding to look good in front of his mom and the public and the reporter was a dumbass who framed her question poorly, but you can tell the guy doesn't have a clue about what it actually looks and feels like to be in most classrooms in America if he can pretend like most teachers are passionate about their jobs like this.
Almost as if he's an actor.