Posted on 03/15/2025 6:21:49 AM PDT by davikkm
Public education is facing a crisis as mass teacher layoffs sweep across the country. Thousands of educators are losing their jobs, and the consequences are already being felt in schools and communities. This isn’t just about numbers on a budget sheet. These are real teachers, real students, and real families being affected by decisions that will reshape the future of education in America.
In Massachusetts, the situation is especially severe. The Department of Education is slashing nearly 50% of its workforce, eliminating over 1,300 positions. The official reasoning? Cost-cutting and streamlining operations. But critics warn that these cuts will hit the most vulnerable students the hardest. Special education programs, school meal funding, and essential support services are all at risk. When resources shrink, class sizes grow. When programs disappear, students suffer.
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Declining enrollments for decades, but the same number, or more, of teachers...
Seems to me layoffs are long overdue.
I didn't know that.
If the unions rebel, BACK THE TRUMP INITIATIVE AND SHUT 'EM DOWN !
We're not just now learning of our failed PS system, this is DECADES old.
We circa 1950's public school kids were the last to be educated
Of the roughly 4 dozen teachers I had through high school I can only recall 7. One because she was endlessly kind, one because she was flamboyant, one because he was really a coach at heart and spent most of the class joking and cutting up with his students. The remaining 4 were smart and articulate. They made you think and participate and I still think highly of them. The odds don't seem high that you will get a great teacher.
This is fake news propaganda.
The Dept of Education does not pay for local teachers.
You want to let the students off the plantation?? What is wrong with you?
Have you walked into a public school and spoken to staff in the last 20 yrs? These are not impressive people.
Maybe they can even stir up enough hate to cause another mass school shooting or assasination attempt
I also noticed the "propaganda perps" (news) likes to call layoffs "firings"
because "firings" demonizes Trump for firing them when they did nothing wrong, while "layoffs" implies financial cutbacks
For too long “education” (and government) has been an employer of those with degrees who couldn’t find work in the private sector.
When I worked in the schools as a public school teacher, the ratio was one-to-one of teachers vs. “support staff” - of which I never saw or none of whom ever offered any help or support - they often made a lot more than we did - and weren’t anywhere near children, teaching or otherwise. That level needs to be wiped out. Usually they had ridiculous, made-up titles to go along with their cushy jobs in air conditioned district offices which they never left.
That and schools are reporting that illegal students are fleeing the schools, leaving some classrooms near empty - freeing up more money for American citizen children, exactly where it should go.
School districts are built on teachers’ unions. HR plays no role in curbing outrageously illegal behavior by school admins, and like the legendary thin blue line, taxpayers are loathe to find themselves liable. Yet these teachers’ unions are completely broken; the exclusive focus on shutting the schools down and keeping them closed replaced the last trace of standing up to abuse against teachers.
The level of sexual abuse teachers are subjected to is absolutely astonishing. And that’s just by other teachers and their admins.
The latest thing sweeping the nation is that all violence directed against teachers is the fault of the victim for not knowing how to manage problem students, as if a given teacher is the only adult that student interacts with all day.
You’re looking the opposite direction. The problem is that any time a teacher has any problem, the response of the schools is “you must be a MAGA! Our schools are perfect!”
Preferably through homeschooling.
I think they are talking about the state's DOE. I predict they will destroy all they can just so the can blame it on Trump.
Do not worry. In those areas where the kickbacks and influence buying occur the government will surely not cut back.
Example: Big publishing companies won't need to worry.
“Reshaping” is not the cure!
Fire all teachers... Dismantle the union...
Burn it down and plow it under... Then, let the neighborhoods rebuild it back into the renowned public school system it was back before the 1970s...
Nuns are more evil than regular teachers. They lie. They hate. They steal. Just like priests.
Watch the shelves of drugstores. They will be cleared of all forms of hair dye. Anything that will cover up blue/pink/etc hair. The rats are gonna go to ground.
Not IN the ground, unfortunately, just TO.
Explain why property taxes are $25k (not a typo) for 1500 sq ft 1960 houses and we are at the bottom of the world’s education list.
Will be glad to see the end of illegals so we won’t have to keep building new schools for their kids.
I wasn’t literally serious. Jeesh!
I’ll bet that few of the cuts affect administrators and their staff. Most cuts will impact teachers suspected of being non-DEI.
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