• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    Cool, can I take a third of the year off here in America and still keep my job?

    Otherwise, I think I’ll take the lower pay plus all the days off and the free healthcare.

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      Depends on the job, that’s what a teacher does, and the average teacher salary is double the median french salary

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          What’re you talking about? I didn’t say anything about healthcare or health insurance. But I will say now, full time public school teachers do get health insurance usually

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            I said it. You responded to it. I guess you responded without reading.

            And as someone with the same insurance they give to the local teachers and is thousands of dollars in medical debt over just two years, comparing that to the French healthcare system is laughable.

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              I said it. You responded to it. I guess you responded without reading.

              What? Again. I did not say teachers get free healthcare before. Why are you so hostile? I get the impression that you either want to view anyone who disagrees with you as dumb or a villain.

              Anyways, you said:

              Cool, can I take a third of the year off here in America and still keep my job?

              Otherwise, I think I’ll take the lower pay plus all the days off and the free healthcare.

              To which I responded:

              Depends on the job, that’s what a teacher does, and the average teacher salary is double the median french salary

              Because yes, a teacher does get a third of the year off.

              And as someone with the same insurance they give to the local teachers and is thousands of dollars in medical debt over just two years, comparing that to the French healthcare system is laughable.

              $30,000 of debt? If not you still would’ve made more money than in France.

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                See that “free healthcare” line you literally pasted from my post? That’s the part you didn’t respond to.

                $30,000 of debt?

                How are you not aware that there are things health insurance either doesn’t cover or doesn’t cover 100%?

                There’s also this thing you’ve apparently never heard of called a deductible.

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                  See that “free healthcare” line you literally pasted from my post? That’s the part you didn’t respond to.

                  Correct, meaning I didn’t claim they did have it…

                  How are you not aware that there are things health insurance either doesn’t cover or doesn’t cover 100%?

                  What does that have to do with what I said. Also FYI, there’s a lot of things single payer systems don’t cover. One of my relatives has to travel to the US for treatment

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                    Travel to the U.S. from where? Treatment for what? Do you expect me to just accept that?

                    By the way, you know what else a lot of the French don’t have? Student loan debt.

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        Teachers in the US definitely do NOT “take the summer off”, as someone who has an SIL that’s a teacher. That time winds up getting filled with lesson planning, adapting to new curricula, meetings with administration to discuss new curricula or books, and usually working a second job because your school is, most of the time, not paying you to do any of that.

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          It definitely depends on the type of teacher. My mom is a teacher but for her current job doesn’t need to do much planning so does get it off. Also like I said the average teacher is paid double what the average french worker is with similar cost of living