Teachers Kickin' It Ol' Skool

I guess some public school teachers in red states are tired of going from teaching to stocking shelves at Walmart. Makes for a long day. Good for them!

...from W. Va. to OK!

Reminds me of this speech from The West Wing. 

Mallory, education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes, we need gigantic, monumental changes. Schools should be palaces. The competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be making six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge to its citizens, just like national defense. That's my position. I just haven't figured out how to do it yet.

Arizona teachers have had enough too.  In the past, the state has been sued for not spending enough in poor districts for education.  

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2018/03/29/arizona-teachers-among-the-nations-lowest-paid-threaten-to-strike/?utm_term=.5c94e9b8ad5a

"Arizona teachers, among the lowest paid in the country, are threatening to strike if state lawmakers do not raise their salaries and restore dramatic funding cuts that schools have endured.

Teachers, who organized a grassroots campaign on social media, are demanding a 20 percent raise and restoration of school funding to 2008 levels, before the Great Recession struck, according to the Arizona Republic. They are also asking state lawmakers to stop cutting taxes until Arizona’s per-student spending reaches the national average."

On MOL once, I commented about education that even when governments ran into budget difficulties, education budgets should never, ever be cut. Cut anything else, but not schools.

I got quite a few laughs at that one.

ElizMcCord said:

Reminds me of this speech from The West Wing. 




Mallory, education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes, we need gigantic, monumental changes. Schools should be palaces. The competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be making six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge to its citizens, just like national defense. That's my position. I just haven't figured out how to do it yet.

Didn’t JC just walk out?

JC walked out and the strike was settled in a couple of days.

The earlier strike was settled after 2 days. Newspaper ads offered $300 per day for substitutes. Board officials assured parents that everything was going well and schools were functioning.

This was the time when computers in schools were new and every J.C. school had 3 in the rooms. On the second day of the strike, computers were thrown out of the windows at some of the high schools. The strike was settled that night.

I was a teacher at Ferris H.S. in Jersey City. One September, I was "signing in" at the main desk next to a teacher who was new to the district. He said he left Columbia H.S. to take a position at J.C.

Why? The pay was higher at J.C.

Teachers in 6 Kentucky counties went on strike Thursday. Schools were cancelled.

The deal in Ky. is the Republican vote to establish a dual pension plan. A lower pension plan is scheduled to begin in September for new hires.

ctrzaska said:

Didn’t JC just walk out?

Was that really posted on Good Friday?

I mean, really. Ten years to get to 40K?

Oklahoma is among the bottom three states for teacher salaries, where educators often work about 10 years before reaching the $40,000 salary mark. And they haven't gotten a raise from the state in 10 years. 
While educators nationwide have seen slight paycheck bumps over the past decade, when adjusted for inflation, teachers have actually lost 3% of their income from 2006 to 2016, according to the National Education Association.

cnn

So the blue states are smarter, healthier, safer, better educated, and better paid. Moreover, we help support the reds. Yet we godless gay commies are ruining America?

Good for them!  I have relatives in the Chapel Hill/Durham area.  I'd love to live there but the pay is so abysmal for teachers, it's totally not worth it.  

I teach in a very wealthy district but my income has actually decreased.  I absolutely love teaching and that's why I keep at it as my chosen career.  At some point though, you feel foolish for choosing a thankless career that is not respected by society and paid poorly.  

GL2 said:

I mean, really. Ten years to get to 40K?

Oklahoma is among the bottom three states for teacher salaries, where educators often work about 10 years before reaching the $40,000 salary mark. And they haven't gotten a raise from the state in 10 years. 
While educators nationwide have seen slight paycheck bumps over the past decade, when adjusted for inflation, teachers have actually lost 3% of their income from 2006 to 2016, according to the National Education Association.




cnn

ok. Is so bad that state police are under directive to drive less than 100 miles per day unless in pursuit.

The good new is that they do have enough money for capital punishment if they can find more drugs.

DaveSchmidt said:

ctrzaska said:

Didn’t JC just walk out?

Was that really posted on Good Friday?

VERY well played, sir.