"Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don’t need little changes, we need gigantic, monumental changes. Schools should be palaces. Competition for the best teachers should be fierce; they should be making six figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge to it citizens, just like national defense."
I hate how a 23 year old quote from the West Wing is still so relevant...
Next line that you left off speaks to that...still.
"That's my position. We just haven't figured out how to do it yet."
That hits hard. Will we ever figure out how to do it here?
This might be the most memorable quote from the entire run of the West Wing for me. Our teachers are doing their job out of good will and our society is taking advantage of them because their value far outstrips what they are paid.
We're several generations deep into a manufactured apathy meant to fragment and dilute any workers rights reforms
We stumbled into work from home due to the pandemic, but that genie will be put back in the bottle within 2 generations.
Robber barons never left, they just got smarter.
All of this is true,
instead of happening in schools for the advancement of knowledge,
it is happening in corporations for profits and egotistical power trips.
When I got sick Costco graciously moved me to a food prep and service position!
<_< That's so great.....
This is less of a news report and more of an ad for Costco.
Bullshit jobs are paying better than shit jobs. Might be a sign corporations are sitting on most of the money.
welcome to costco, i love you
Far-right media and muslim extremist are going hand in hand, blaming school of turning kids transgender. I cant believe I just wrote that sentence. Here in Canada and Québec, no one wants to work in school anymore because of those brainwashed idiots, and I dont blame them. You think school teachers have a agenda because they try to teach kids about having basic human decency? Then fucking school your kids at home and let's see how that goes. I am fed up will all those idiots who chose to boycott their brain.
"Then fucking school your kids at home and let's see how that goes."
They are, and not well.
Not sure why you made a distinction between far-right and musilm (or any religion really) extremists. Those venn diagrams are practically circles.
An inspiration, all teachers should do this!
This reads like a bad ad.
Not only that, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's more job satisfaction in retail than teaching. Teaching in the US is a dog, and I'm frankly amazed they haven't already run out of teachers.
You also didn't read the article, at all - clearly
If enough teacher leave, maybe we'll start to pay them more
Some states? Maybe. Georgia (as mentioned in the article), likely not. There has been a continual war on education in the US and we see it on display every election cycle.
Despite their best efforts (including paying teachers in red states poverty wages), those who would keep us dumb and scared are frustrated to find a new generation that doesn't give a fuck about division along arbitrary demographic lines and is increasingly aware of class warfare.
This drives further education cuts and cries from extremist/hate motivated groups to further crack down on our schools because these parents are so weak willed as to be offended by diversity and critical thinking.
I hope these are the last dying wails of this kind of hatred and ignorance, but I'm not taking that for granted. Vote, educate, and promote solidarity and unity at every opportunity because the shitheels who are on the other side will fight tooth and nail to destroy education funding and cut down our teaching corps.
Edit: How a teacher of eight years experience is making $47k a year is a travesty.
Florida's approach was just to give anyone with a police or military background a teaching license.
They won't up teacher pay. They'll just hire shittier teachers because the primary highlight of public education is that it is free daycare for their exhausted, working parents.
Oklahoma is doing the same. My first year I was teaching the other “teachers” the material they were expected to teach students.
Nah, the only people that will still be teaching will be ideological extremists and people that want to hang out with children for other reasons.
Oof...you're probably right to a degree. And that will make culture war polarization even worse when it comes to what is taught in public schools. It will be a sad state of things, when the majority of teachers are mere activists.
As I understand it, the problem with teacher pay is with corruption in the school system, not the schools themselves not getting enough money. They have plenty of money, but they're still not paying their teachers well.
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