The presidents of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers say the political climate has added to age-old money problems for teachers, such as underfunded schools.
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My daughter has been telling me how the ‘feel’ at school has been changing. The vibe she is getting feels less supportive. She feels the teachers are stressed and just wants things to be more normal and fun.
You don’t live in a red state do you? If you did, you would know the states cannot be trusted to handle it because they have no interest in funding public education, let alone interventions for struggling students, funding for special education or civil rights for all students.
The proposal is to end DOE. Ending the central control of a out of control DC bureacrats. Money going to state control.
I believe Texas new deal is giving extra money for special needs. Yes I'm in red state. Closer the money is to kids, the better the knowledge of needs, my opinion.
Yes it does. Texas got busted in 2018 pressuring districts to not qualify students for special education services they needed to succeed, because they didn’t want to pay for it.
QUESTION: Does the orange “leader” want to do away with undocumented workers and then ruin the American economy so that (broke and desperate) American citizens can then do those often grueling and back breaking jobs the undocumented did? Just asking. 🤔
Yes and their children. The advancements from the 20th century were too much for these men to handle. They lost control & concocted a 50 yr plan to get it back.
I have had it with everyone picking on teachers! I was one and couldn’t hack it. You couldn’t pay me a million dollars to be a teacher again. Most teachers are selfless servants. I know, my father was a beloved teacher, my cousins my nieces and nephews. People that berate teaches have no clue.
Republicans hate education because critical thinking challenges their backwards, fascist world view. They would rather only the rich be educated while everyone else gets indoctrination and slaving away in the factories and fields to make the rich even richer.
I quit teaching middle School after 20 years. My pay was just fine. The supports for bad in-class behavior, however, we're not. That's what did it for me.
I think teachers should shut down the system until #tRump backtracking on education just like he does for #amazon, #meta, #china, you get the picture. I'll stand with you all!
You may be ok with capitulating because you're too weak to make up your own mind, but parents are the boss of teachers, and we don't need them deciding on anything besides the subject they are ostensibly trained to teach.
It’s clear you don’t get it, and won’t get it. So I don’t need to lower myself further by engaging honestly. 🤷♂️😆
Holy shit you’re entitled, aren’t you, chuckles. Really think you’re in charge of everything just because “I’m the parent and what I say goes”? How childish…
True but also concern should focus on students and how they can’t get a first world education to better learn to discern truth from fiction. The plight of public ed can be understood as an existential issue.
Americans are resilient. Let's take one day at a time. We must stand united. Pessimism is contagious, and so is courage. It's for each of us to choose.
Be not afraid.Trump and Maga will one day be gone.
RESIST RESIST RESIST.
As a high school teacher, I can attest to how nice it is to feel appreciated by my students and their parents.
Just today I got two of the nicest letters from two of my 12th graders acknowledging the difference I have made in their lives—and the letters were handwritten! ♥️💙♥️
NEA has played a large part in making education the wasteland that it is. It is the regulatory capture of “unions” and regularly sells its members and the kids out for profit and corporate bidders. They are trash. Doubt me? I have lots of proof.
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Authoritarians and Dictators want the populace to be ignorant.
It's past time to #unite for #EducationReform, including paying teachers more, and prioritizing #EmotionalReform within educational institutions.
Anything less is uncivilized and abusive.
#PetitionForParity 🌏
1. The voucher program has not started yet.
2. The plan includes extra money.
#Iowa
Chile please
Republicans hate our children being educated, they have defunded schools, and continue to harm our schools and teachers.
Its core functions are still in operation.
Education funding has continued to increase in areas controlled by both parties, for decades.
Math and reading scores are in the toilet. States can handle it just as they did before Jimmy Carter
I believe Texas new deal is giving extra money for special needs. Yes I'm in red state. Closer the money is to kids, the better the knowledge of needs, my opinion.
https://www.texastribune.org/2018/01/11/federal-special-education-monitoring-report/
The 99% needs to unify against them.
there will be no more public schools.
look at MO and AZ budgets after passing voucher programs.
that will be true in every state that falls for them.
the end of public education.
My property taxes went up $600 this year. Yours will, too
$600 I can afford.
Ending public education? Cannot recover from that.
Pretty sure it won't cover NEXT YEAR for us.
And $600 so private schools can siphon off my tax dollars?
No thank you.
You’re not a teacher and you’re not in charge of a classroom just because you think you’re entitled to it.
Learn your place, FFS. How does this need to be taught to a supposed adult?
Holy shit you’re entitled, aren’t you, chuckles. Really think you’re in charge of everything just because “I’m the parent and what I say goes”? How childish…
The wealth of billionaires should be confiscated because you can’t become a billionaire by following the law and being moral and ethical.
Be not afraid.Trump and Maga will one day be gone.
RESIST RESIST RESIST.
Just today I got two of the nicest letters from two of my 12th graders acknowledging the difference I have made in their lives—and the letters were handwritten! ♥️💙♥️