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Protests in Zagreb
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Protests in Zagreb
So, what do you guys here think about the massive protests that New York Times is reporting are going on in Zagreb?
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/11...trike.html
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/11...trike.html
I am in Osijek, 174 miles from Zagreb, and I am having a hard time believing the protests are as massive as New York Times claims. But I don't have the time to go to Zagreb to see for myself.
Those protests are organized by public unions, and they are primarily demanding higher wages for teachers. Do you think that's a good idea?
Well, I agree with the mainstream Croatian media that it isn't. The government shouldn't comply to the requests of the public sector. We need to ask ourselves where that money would come from. In all likelihood, that would mean that the Croatian government would go further in debt. Or increase the already-too-high taxes. Perhaps both.
Also, I think it might be a better idea to pay all the teachers who teach some subject equally, and not according to their "merits". Right now, those who teach history of music or history of art generally have the same wage as those who teach mathematics or foreign languages. I don't think it's fair, it's way harder to teach mathematics or foreign languages than to teach art. I also think that paying teachers according to their "merits" is a deeply flawed system. Because what that actually means is paying those teachers, whose students succeed better on competitions, more. I don't think that's a good idea. When students succeed on competitions, it's not the teachers who have done the hard work, it's the students who have done the hard work.
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Protests in Zagreb - by FlatAssembler - November 28, 2019 at 5:46 am
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by LastPoet - November 28, 2019 at 5:53 am
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 28, 2019 at 6:43 am
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by LastPoet - November 28, 2019 at 7:02 am
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 28, 2019 at 7:07 am
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by FlatAssembler - November 28, 2019 at 9:20 am
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 28, 2019 at 10:01 am
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by FlatAssembler - November 28, 2019 at 11:26 am
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by LastPoet - November 28, 2019 at 3:14 pm
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by The Valkyrie - November 28, 2019 at 3:45 pm
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by FlatAssembler - November 29, 2019 at 8:07 am
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 29, 2019 at 12:26 pm
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by LastPoet - November 29, 2019 at 1:07 pm
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by notimportant1234 - November 29, 2019 at 8:20 am
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by FlatAssembler - November 29, 2019 at 10:17 am
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by notimportant1234 - November 29, 2019 at 10:22 am
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by FlatAssembler - November 30, 2019 at 2:51 am
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 30, 2019 at 7:19 am
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 29, 2019 at 12:23 pm
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by FlatAssembler - November 30, 2019 at 3:49 pm
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 30, 2019 at 6:31 pm
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by FlatAssembler - December 2, 2019 at 1:43 am
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - December 2, 2019 at 5:50 am
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by LastPoet - December 2, 2019 at 9:18 am
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by FlatAssembler - December 2, 2019 at 9:57 am
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - December 2, 2019 at 12:04 pm
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by FlatAssembler - December 2, 2019 at 12:48 pm
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - December 2, 2019 at 1:36 pm
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by FlatAssembler - December 2, 2019 at 2:11 pm
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - December 2, 2019 at 2:42 pm
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by FlatAssembler - December 3, 2019 at 7:08 am
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - December 3, 2019 at 7:19 am
RE: Protests in Zagreb - by FlatAssembler - December 3, 2019 at 11:28 am

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