Teachers have deserved more money for decades. Politicians have been promising teachers more money for decades so they can be elected to forget about giving teachers more money. I don’t know what the moral of the story is.
Teachers deserve more money.
Submitted 6 days ago by StillAlive@piefed.world to [deleted]
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finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 6 days ago
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 days ago
First of all, there should be one Federal curriculum for all schools. 2+2=4, CAT spells cat in every state. There is no reason to have 50 separate curriculums. The ONLY reason that exists is so MAGA states can use the schools to indoctrinate American schoolchildren into Confederate Treason, instead of giving their children an education that allows this country to compete in the world, instead of just compete against each other.
JayDee@lemmy.world 6 days ago
You’re aware no child left behind was literally that, and it’s a big reason for schools declining as they are right now, right? Because the standards it set were poorly thought out, and the execution of said standards was also terrible. And that was when the US government was still even mildly coherent.
The educators - the people who actually gave enough of a fuck to go through years of college and take a dirt poor job because they believed in teaching - should be setting the curriculum. Not some bullshitting politician on the hill.
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio 6 days ago
Look at the state of the federal government right now. You want them running education for the country?
mkwt@lemmy.world 5 days ago
There is no reason to have 50 separate curriculums. The ONLY reason that exists is so MAGA states can use the schools to indoctrinate American schoolchildren
That’s not the only reason. There are in fact principles of federalism, and there’s the 10th amendment to the constitution. Educating the public is not one of the 17 enumerated powers granted to Congress in article I. Under the 10th, powers that are not granted to the national government are reserved to the states or to the people.
This is why the national government’s regulation of education is based around carrots in the form of block grants that states apply for. Not enforcement sticks.
Kaligalis@lemmy.world 6 days ago
The real problem is that most politicians were once kids themselves and learned to hate teachers in general. It’s not all teachers. But kids are easy to influence. The bad teachers ruin it for everyone.
Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
kill politicians and put educators and experts in charge.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 days ago
hearing the experiences from the teacher sub, cant blame them, due to the manospheres reaching male students even in middle school has made things worst, plus indifferent parents and administrations that drove teachers to quit, oh yea and covid of course amplified the situation. first because you cant have inclass teaching most couldnt keep thier jobs
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
wat? teachers were fired?
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
No, OP doesn’t understand it fully or isn’t describing the process well.
Every year a budget is set that determines the total teacher FTE (full time equivalent). If the number is higher than last year, new teachers will be hired. If it’s lower, it means teachers will be fired.
Teachers are not hired (fired) at the end of school year/beginning of next year. The way it usually works are the principals have a giant bid process kind of like a draft. Teachers that have tenure (usually 5+ years, but depends on district) are guaranteed a seat and get first pick of their preferred school, grade and subject. All of the other teachers then put in the 3 favorite schools and they get assigned based on principals trading them around.
So if the budget changes during COVID, let’s say dramatic spending on technology, it reduces the amount of teacher FTE. That means in some districts, classroom sizes are increased and non tenured teachers are not rehired. But this isn’t true everywhere, it was just a small trend during COVID due to changing budget priorities for that year.
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 5 days ago
My one history teacher in high school drank vodka from a water bottle when he was teaching about the Holocaust. He drank more the days he showed us uncensored concentration camp liberation vids. Nobody said a damn thing about it because he deserved to get a lil blitzed for enduring those videos in every class of the day for a week.
He showed them to us because he thought it was very important that we know the awful, ugly, disturbing truth about what happened so it doesn’t happen again.
Guess the rest of the US didn’t have that sort of history lesson.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 6 days ago
The world would be a better place if everyone chugged gin more
ponypuncher@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Alcohol has never made anyone less annoying.
snoons@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Well, my abusive dad died of alcohol poisoning so technically not true.
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
In my experience alcohol makes everyone less annoying, as long as you’re the one drinking the alcohol.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 6 days ago
This is true. Even when I’m driving, I find myself being a lot more level-headed about things that would give my road rage if I have a few shots beforehand
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 6 days ago
Nope! Infinite supply of teachers equals modest pay. Supply and demand matters.
You can absolutely give more of your money to teaxhers if you are serious about it.
But im not. Id give more to my self. So I can lift myself up, then my family, then my community.
burgermeister@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Where is the infinite supply of teachers?
Paddzr@lemmy.world 6 days ago
We haven’t got a supply, even dwindling one… there are no teachers.
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 5 days ago
Basic supply and demand matters.
The supply side matters. Teaching has one of the largest labor pipelines in America, which weakens bargaining power for higher wages. Large numbers of education degrees are awarded every year, while many districts can still fill positions from a broad applicant pool compared to highly specialized professions.
Teachers are also among the largest professional workforces in the country: www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/07/teachers-among-most-educated-yet-pay-lags.html
Meanwhile, professions with tighter labor supply like engineering, medicine, and advanced tech fields generally command much higher salaries because shortages increase leverage.
That is basic supply and demand economics, whether people like hearing it or not.
NotBillMurray@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Somewhere at the bottom of their water bottle full of gin. They’ll find them down there eventually.
ponypuncher@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I actually read this story. She thought it was water so she didn’t drink at school intentionally. If she were a drunk I highly doubt she would have vomited after one chug. Even if gin does taste like pine shit.
Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Yeah Im calling bullshit on that. There is no way you take a slug of gin and not immediately know you just drank alcohol.
Drusas@fedia.io 6 days ago
Yeah, but I don't know if you've ever tried straight gin. Even the good stuff is horrible on its own. Definitely could vomit after unexpectedly taking a large gulp.
Godric@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Back in college, I left a plastic water bottle full of vodka at my buddy’s place after a party, so he brought that bottle to campus in his gym bag to return it to me.
During his cardio session, he grabbed the bottle without thinking, started chugging, and then promptly ran to the toilets.
He was fucked up afterwards, but sure didnt have enough time to get alcohol in his system XD
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 6 days ago
Eh, I’ve hit a few that were weak enough I wasn’t sure what they were. A bottle filled with someone’s chew spit- instant realization. A wounded soldier that was actually piss? Not until it hit the back of my throat and the cigarette butt at the bottom hit my lips.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 6 days ago
I’ve accidentally drank alcohol thinking it was water many times. I don’t think she was drunk from it, and probably spit it out immediately. I could very much see her puking immediately after though because that shit is shocking and triggers a gag reflex immediately.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 6 days ago
You’ve never once grabbed the movie theater water bottle instead of the actual water bottle?
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Did the class/one student replace the drink?