Posted on 04/02/2018 8:00:07 PM PDT by BackRoads775
“Close all public schools and send the students to private schools.”
Easier said than done.
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The mechanisms involved are easy to implement.
The willingness of politicians to proceed with that implementation is the problem.
If I hit the Power ball I will be walking 3-5 Hyenas simultaneously.
Please keep them on a chain and have them litter box trained.
If you think public schoolteachers in other areas are different. ...
you haven’t met many of them.
Check my math, but if $6,ooo is 15% of the current rate, they will go from about $38,000 to about $44,000. In Seattle, where I live, that would be a marginal income. I know Oklahoma has a lower cost of living, but that still isn’t a very healthy income.
It is mostly day care. Literally speaking 1 person could teach millions these days. But each mind is different and some people learn at different paces or through alternate explanations. But that’s OK because 2 million people can teach 1 million people these days. If you think about it the way we teach kids hasn’t changed much in at least 100 years. The world has changed incredibly. It was designed to churn out future factory workers in a world that, by the time those born today graduate, will have seen millions or tens of millions of jobs disappear - transportation jobs, factory jobs, warehouse jobs, food preparation jobs etc are all going to vanish to automation, self-driving cars, robotic burger makers etc.
While I wouldn’t necessarily abolish school buildings, school systems and even ‘teachers’ are anachronistic. Education is a process, you need a certain foundation upon which additional knowledge is layered. Kids need some facilitation and direction. The current method requires they respond to the sounds of bells and sit arranged in neat little rows that discourages interaction, when they would learn a lot more if they could help each other peel away the layers of a subect. The current method of learning has a lot of starting and stopping and switching of topics many times in a day when real learning requires time dedicated to delve into a topic.
At the end of the day if we want a truly brilliant generation then they have to learn how to learn at an earlier age. That won’t happen in the very stifling environment that our public education systems are designed to be.
The article says the average before the raise was $45,276 and that the $6000 was an average raise - depending on time/experience. It is a sort of meaningless statistic. I don’t know what that really translates to in the real world - what is the starting salary and what does a 10 year and 20 year teacher make?
>> but teachers said it was not enough
Clearly, they deserve more vacation days, seasonal breaks, a longer summer, and 25% salary increase.
When you churn out that many democrat voters, it’s only fair. /s
the Gov should take back the bill she signed and say fine, you get nothing then. She can asign the monies elsewhere where its appreciated.
Remember Wisconsin?
“and defrost a possum for supper.”
I’ve got a dog that’ll go out and bring back fresh — no need to dig one out of the deep freeze.
The “average salary” quoted includes value of benefits like paid health insurance and retirement contribution. Actual base salary for a beginning teacher is a little over $31k on the state salary schedule. Some districts will pay more but not a bunch more, usually. A dated example for an experienced teacher is my now-retired wife, out of the education field for 9 years. She was right at 30 years service so the salary schedule had stopped recognizing years of service, she has a master’s degree in speech pathology (5% special education salary bump), and her final salary which was right after the last statewide raise was around $45k.
They have asked for a $10,000 raise as well as additional funding for schools and raises for support staff like bus drivers and custodians.
Thanks BackRoads775.
actually they are overpaid and underworked relative to real work....
they never say what they make now do they?...they always point out to beginning wages....
maybe we should pay them the same and give them a few more weeks off in December or April...poor liddle dears....
The only ones I know of were the Nuns (the real ones) who taught & worked for free. And they did it happily for the Lord.
But you should see their Cadillac benefits that even part timers receive. Another week of more teachers who want to get paid for no work.
It would be different if kids graduated with basic skills.
These folks give honest educators a bad name. People who pour themselves into the kids.
So they get a 16 percent raise and go on strike? Voucher the @#$^!**&^ schools and be done with it.
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