Fundamental Bogus

This week a reporter at one of North-Americas premier dailies (both the reporter and the daily shall remain nameless) examined the success of a couple who had immigrated from

South-America to the prospers of North America. The husband, a former teacher in Brazil and his wife a Brazilian psychologist made the move north in 05 taking "low paying" cleaning jobs until finally in 06 husband Julio "hit pay dirt". Julio a former teacher, acquired a position as a caretaker with the local school board.

Pay dirt, are you kidding me this man (Julio) is a former moulder of minds, an educator and in a least one country a scholar. In North-America however we are expected to buy in to a void, fraudulent sense of accomplishment that dictates that any regular, full-time job on our content is greater then even the most prestigious position on another content. This is bogus fundamentalism.

Julio is a caretaker, Julio was a teacher. This is no knock on the worlds toilet cleaner but those that lead our children and those that clean their messes just don’t add up to the same thing. I am hesitant to say one is more important then the other as I feel they are both essential services and if you doubt the validity of deeming caretakers essential check out the bio-hazardous conditions that develop from just a day or two with out the friendly school janitor.

A caretaker for a school board can be a rewarding position for any young family man eager to keep food on the table well slowly building his portfolio, in fact it’s the very beef I was raised on but it’s just not a teacher and Julio’s story, is just not a success.

Zoltan Black