Too many parasites.
I wouldn’t say “stupidest”...I’d say “most depraved”.
They are stupid, it used to be that teaching attracted top students in college, today teachers come from the worst students in college.
Americans of the past were educated by very high quality, intelligent people.
But, but, they are very smart. They gots degreez in eddikashun. (Apologies to all the good ones out there, we know you exist. However, kick out the worthless toad lefties.)
There are a lot of good teachers. The problem is that there’s also a lot of admin now as well that don’t teach and just sit in an office.
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During the 80’s, my wife and I both worked for a book publisher. As part of our employee benefits we could get a 40% discount on books. The publisher published mostly educational and technical material, and other publishers were participating and we could also get discounted books from them. When our kids came home from school to do their homework with books that were falling apart, we decided to see why, and offer to get new books at a discount. We were told, oh no we can’t buy new books yet, they aren’t old enough, and we have contracts with distributers. It wasn’t for another couple years when they finally got new and up to date books. Meanwhile the superintendent plays golf with contractors. On our dime of course.
When I was in college in the mid 70’s, at a college known for being one of the best teacher colleges, the teaching degree was considered the dummy degree even back then. It was a degree for the kids who could not handle the rigorous content of the courses an actual degree program offered.
Paging “Our Miss Brooks”.
There are good teachers out there. Two of them I raised with my wife. They are solid Christian’s and very conservative with a talent for encouraging children to learn. They could easily make more money in private sector but consider teaching a calling,
They are wise as serpents so they can survive among liberal parents, children and principals.
In 2022-2023, California had the highest average teacher salary in the US
at $95,160, followed by New York ($92,696) and Massachusetts ($92,307).
Here’s a more detailed breakdown. Top 3:
California: $95,160
New York: $92,696
Massachusetts: $92,307
Other Notable States:
Washington: $86,804
District of Columbia: $84,882
Connecticut: $83,400
National Average: The national average public school teacher salary for 2022-23 was $69,597.
Lowest Paid States: West Virginia ($52,870), Florida ($53,098), and South Dakota ($53,153) had the lowest average teacher salaries.
Dear Mr. Conlin:
You neglected to mention “unions” and the GOPe/uniparty that cheerfully funded these “Stupidest Creatures” the last decades. It is ludicrous to blame this only on the retards of the left and every other mess we are in.
If you ever went to college and sat in class with some educations majors, you understand the problem.
The kids in my second son’s high school math class had to teach themselves from the math book, the “teacher” was so thick. On the other hand, the chemistry and Latin teachers were great.
The whole culture of developing teachers revolves around leftists and leftist institutions that produce and only hire leftists.
This has resulted in ‘feelings driven agendas’ as most of them are virtue signaling women. They believe those are THEIR KIDS and THEIR CLASSROOM....which is a bully pulpit to teach their personal ideologies.
Apparently nobody told them, they’re OUR KIDS and OUR CLASSROOMS and it is NOT YOUR JOB to inject your personal ideology, or behave as some sort of psychiatrist with the responsibility of ‘transitioning’ kids - which is nothing more than practicing without a license.
It’s become a cesspit, churning out kids well exposed to drugs, sex, and disrespectful attitudes to adults.
The only bright side seems to be that it’s becoming obvious to all, including the kids - that are rebelling against wokeness.
I can’t say exactly what all teachers are paid, but i worked most of my working years as a skilled technician in a shop with very few raises. I daresay that most teachers with a few years under them made as little as I did & I worked a solid 12 months a year.
According to this article, the country spends $1T a year on education.
Imagine if there were no government schools. No teachers unions. No need for a heavy administrative layer.
There are about 3.8M teachers in the US. If we spend $1T, then that would provide for more than $250,000 for each teacher.
Imagine if we encouraged Home Schooling. Or provided money for parents to choose a private school. Books and whiteboards and other materials are not really that expensive. In the end, teachers would not get $250,000 each, but they could get a lot more than they do now.
We just have to structure our education system differently.
In NJ there are 21 counties and every year the teacher’s union would declare that county x was the lowest paid. The next year, county y was the lowest paid. That’s how the scam worked for years. If a district vetoed the “education” budget, the State overrode the decision.
Oh, the waste. Here's a few examples.
1. BREAKFAST - They decided they'd feed all the kids Breakfast in the Classroom. At first the food was good, but after a while it deteriorated to soggy, pre-packaged burritos, pizza, poptarts and coffee cake, and an apple or banana. The kids threw most of it away (I always scavenged what I could and kept it for snacks later, because what they rejected at 7:30 they were sometimes hungry for by 10am.) But the amount of food that went directly into the garbage was just sickening.
2. BOOKS AND PROGRAMS - Independent contractors would sell the district all sorts of new books and programs meant to fix this or that. A principal would buy hundreds of these things for the teachers. The teachers would try them, find they were useless, and put them in the storage room where they remained collecting dust with all the other silver bullet programs they'd accumulated over the years. Rooms full of stuff.
3. TRAINING - They were constantly sending us to trainings that we didn't want or need, often to learn how to use these new programs. This was a money sinkhole paying for the training, paying for the subs to cover our classes for days... then we found the programs were crap anyway. These trainings were almost always mandatory.
4. TRANSFERS - Teachers move around a lot. They'd train us to use the programs that our school was using, and then a year later we'd transfer, taking that invested money (but not the program materials) with us... so that was wasted.
5. TESTING - They tested the kids constantly. Every 6-8 weeks there'd be a standardized test of some kind, which materials had to be bought, administered, scored, analyzed... there was always more money for more testing.
A lot of times, the teachers weren't the problem. It was the administrators spending on stuff like this, putting it on their CVs, and then after three years they'd leave their position touting all these programs and trainings they'd implemented. Up the ladder they went, leaving a mess behind them every time.
They never miss a year.