realcaseyrollins 9 months ago
If enough teacher leave, maybe we'll start to pay them more
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 higher shittier teachers because the primary highlight of public education is that it is free daycare for their exhausted, working parents.
“primary highlight of public education is that it is free daycare for their exhausted, working parents.”
In their eyes. That doesn’t make it true. Education is, and should be treated as, the backbone of society.
Oh, I’m a teacher by trade. You needn’t convince me of the merits of my job.
That point was meant to underline that the most bankable benefit of public education in the eyes of the American public is having the security of knowing their kids will be cared for free somewhere during (most) of their working hours. People are fucking exhausted from work, stress, and fear, robbing them of the potential of seeing it as much else.
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.
They’ll just shut down the schools
iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
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 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.