Posted on 07/29/2020 6:18:55 PM PDT by karpov
My son was called into the high school principal's office during the 2016 election for wearing a Trump "build the wall" t shirt. The principal called him in but then didn't know what to do or say so just let him go. Still, he missed class for that. . .pisses me off to this day.
Too bad they weren’t government workers, like the Air Traffic Controllers about 40 years ago. I’d love to see President Trump do to these radicals filling our children’s heads with Leftist crap what President Reagan did back in the day.
Contracts are already signed for the upcoming school year—months ago. Teachers will be paid.
If teachers are overworked and underpaid, they should find new jobs. Why stay? The problem is the free market is not at work here, as far as salaries and supply and demand go.
I know one metric that shows remote learning failed many children this spring: one-third of all LA students—tens or hundreds of thousands—never logged in at all last spring. They roamed the streets or played Xbox.
Private schools are also shut down, in CA. Millions of students prevented from in person schooling, private or public. Trump can do nothing about it, I guess--K-12 is managed by the states. Only 10% of the K-12 US Dept of ED budget is for K-12.
Screw the teachers unions. Take our money and students away from them. Mine are 10 and 13.
They stay for the same reason you stay in a job where you are vested in retirement and/or building retirement benefits. The free market is definitely at work here. Not all districts pay the same. And, supply and demand is very much at work in the teaching industry as much as any other licensed/certified industry such as plumbers or electricians. Districts only hire teachers if they need them. Where you really have the pork in education is with the upper administration.
I know—my district pays the superintendent nearly $400K a year. . .an amazingly high salary.
If I were a teacher and felt underpaid and overworked I’d get another job—or at least try to—seems like a no brainer to me. Other jobs (such as city and state jobs) have good retirement benefits too.
Today’s teachers and their unions are horse crap.
Wal-Mart can stay open.
Home Depot can stay open.
Grocery stores can stay open.
But teachers are forbidden to open classrooms?
Today’s teachers are socialist stoopids and if you have a school aged kid and can do it, keep your child home and teach them your morals and not allow these ghouls a chance to screw them up/
I am weary about holding an election during a pandemic. Let’s skip this one, according to the constitution, and resume elections in 2024-
“Best of all. All teachers could be fired because they’d have been replaced by a machine.”
Yep.... figured that one out early on. Once everything is set up, a monkey could pretty much do the rest.
Not a big fan of Moodle LMS at all as it takes away from the
one on one needed for successful learning.
Thankfully I’m short time so the light is getting much brighter with each passing day.
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