You're right on all accounts. I mean, if the teachers and kids have to risk their lives by going to school in the U.S....
At least give them a LIVABLE salary if they must risk their lives to be there.
Adding…they should also be funded to provide school supplies to each student for the semester’s …as most of the Teachers I know are buying some of their kids supplies out of their own “kitty👎🏼”
Sure in a utopia. That would mean that A) GOP taxes the rich, opposite what they do now and then B) suddenly have a moment of clarity that public education is one of the four pillars of our society, but considering they rely on a base of “useful idiots” to survive and are arguing for more h-1b…yeah
No one should be guaranteed a salary. It should be based on how well you treat your students, how well your students perform, and how many kiddos go to a trade school or college. Teachers salaries should not be guaranteed. I have had a few doozies with my kiddo and it really sucks, very small #.
While I understand, many "bad" teachers are the result of years of underfunded classrooms and unsupportive admin cramming classrooms with unmanageable students.
I get it but the Chief of Staff who heads my daughter’s school board just killed himself yesterday and we JUST found out that he was being investigated for child pornography. He was with her district 10 years and has been teaching 18. We have to stop looking the other way with the way people behave.
Absolutely and the school didn’t tell us until about three weeks later after he was arrested, after he killed himself is how some found out. They scrubbed his name from their website.
To the news stations the district is saying that it’s an active investigation, but it should’ve been something that the parents should’ve had an email on immediately after the arrest. I have taught my daughter to always question authority because of reasons like this with men or women.
First you should attend to the destruction of our public school system. In the hands of our Mad King, Project 2025, Hillsdale College (S. Mich.), Patriot Mobile (Tx) and Academica (Fl.) the only teachers left will be hollowing out the minds of our children with alt-facts, fake history and religion
I’m sorry but I disagree with part of that. Teachers should be paid closer to 100k a year or more. They need more for the number of hours per week that they put in both in the classroom and after kids go home.
One benefit that helps students in Ontario is that all publicly funded students receive about the same funding with some variations for some students (e.g. special needs). Students are not disadvantaged because they may live in a low-income neighbourhood.
And if you think that would make one damn bit of a difference in the absence of psychologically healthy families, you're dumb enough to vote for a Democrat again...
Now that trump plans to defund the dept of education, money will only come from state funds. So the poorer states won’t be able to pay better teacher salaries or free lunches, or even the cost for special ed support.
But it never will! It goes into their pockets and stays in their pockets! So let's not sugar coat the Oligarchs true purpose and that is to pillage the poor!
We see the tunnel we’re about to go through is on fire… but still we’re going to drive through it anyway, that’s what I feel America is about to do with trump/musk taking over the reins of democracy!
Are your kidding me! The Republicans will never go for that..they say they are for education,but in all reality they do not .ask for your post i agree totally..
Maybe ..it is the Republicans that are doing their best to suppress education. read the news.local and nation wide .to stay away from a argument let's say we agree to disagree..I do not have enough room to express all my thoughts...
If Democrats wanted to improve conditions for teachers and students, they just had 4 years in which they had all the time to reform what was needed.
They're not going to, because better education is not in the best interest of ultra-capitalists.
Well Biden tried to improve things for student debt. Republicans wanted nothing to do with it. local schools in each state is at the mercy of who ever runs that state..you know that ..
I’m not sure if you understand how public education works.
For starters, Federal funds go to the states. There is some control how it is spent, but states mostly distribute the money as they see fit to schools. Then state and local taxes are used for funding.
Charters and voucher programs will pull funds and students from public schools. This will increase inequality.
Our schools need improvement in many ways. But the orange one’s plan to destroy the department of education and create Betsy Devos’s fantasyland would scatter Federal funds and programs.
Republicans want to reduce funding to public schools. That is what the vouchers and charter schools are for. But, you see, public schools have to serve everyone. charters don’t-
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Huge portion of Federal funding supports the disabled, the poor, and the otherwise disadvantaged. Charters and vouchers
Blue states tend to have stronger teacher unions that fight for better schools as well NYSUT (NY union) for example just won a fight to improve classroom conditions during hot days. This will hopefully improve the classroom temperature issues. I
Yeah, well, meanwhile in West Virginia, the RED legislature has cut county school school funding and gave the Private School/Home School kids a $4000.00 "grant" to pay for those schools each year. We have seen over 50 pub schls close - more closures coming. Also, $5 Mil to OH Catholic school. WHAT?
Teachers in Australia get 4 weeks paid vacation a year. A new graduate educator typically earns $88,615–$101,278, while experienced teachers earn $105,498–$125,582.
I know 2 teachers in America. They BOTH drive uber after school to make ends meet.
Like universal health care, family leave and gun violence prevention, dozens of other nations have solved these while the US flails in incompetence. School meals are provided by other wealthy, and some not wealthy, countries.
Most of the year, yes. But obviously something else has happened that requires a more comprehensive solution than schools can provide. Feeding children at school is good, but it's only a bandaid on a bigger, longterm problem
Why should kids get to use the school's electricity and heat and toilet paper and water? In addition to paying for lunch they should also pay to cover these other overhead costs of the place they are required to go to, right?
I'm an adult capable of consenting to my working conditions. A child is required to be at school. They should be given free meals if they are required to be there.
While we could certainly provide more funding, we have a fundamental problem with education that goes far beyond lack of funding.
We spend more per student than 40 other developed countries and yet, we fall far below all those nations in actual education.
Let's talk about trans folks. yes, /s
Me too. Having worked in public education, I know that there are never enough resources, teachers are terribly underpaid, and most educational administrators are cowardly, useless and vastly overpaid.
Yes, but forcing children to attend school is wrong. Public school should not be compulsory. Children who don't want to be there interfere with those who do.
And let teachers teach children in a way that the children can learn. Don't chain them to a particular curriculum, because not everybody learns the same way.
I too will sacrifice some of the wealth of the top 1% of the country. After all, the US made their wealth possible. It makes total sense for them to reinvest a small amount of it.
Okay, but why not just use the taxes from the ultra rich to fund education? Feels like there could be both without equivocating. Defund the pigs and siphon that into education, free lunches and the whole deal while you’re at it.
I was a special ed paraeducator, made $12.00 an hour in 2000 and spent hundreds of dollars a year on my classroom. Teachers are so underfunded it’s not funny. Just ask one.
On top of it you have to deal with entitled parents who think the world revolves around them and their child along with their specific views. Let alone all the flipping food allergy issues. Annnnnd all that and you could get shot just for being at work that day.
I taught 8th grade science for 29 years and loved it, but I also spent $75,000 dollars for supplies. I was never given a budget to teach a hands-on, engineering based class. Luckily my husband supported my quest to give my students the best education possible.
I never got that. The school should budget for things that are necessary for teaching, duh! It's quite baffling. The fact that it's normal makes it worse.
The rich do not want an educated public that could see through their game of constantly promoting fear and anger to keep morons from realizing how they are being robbed
Amen! I wouldn’t be able to do half of what I am expected without my amazing staff. One of my staff member I call boss. And students know it,
FAFO about my support system (staff, but I hate that word. It sounds subordinate)
I’d like to add that the standards for social studies remain in tact and that we can please teach the accuracy of the Trump administration and the impact that it has had on our country
Signed,
every social studies and science teacher in America
I am 78 and have 0 school aged kids or grandkids and am FINE with my high property taxes going toward good schools, in-school meals for kids, and strong teacher compensation. I would be happy to see billionaires taxed too! 💙
I have never had children and my spouse and I are both happy with our high property tax dollars going into good schools with free meals, excellent teacher pay, and a diverse education.
This is a nice wish list. I cannot see it happening during the next four years though. The opposite is more likely to occur, especially tax cuts for ultra rich.
If only those tax breaks would pay for things like this instead of the ammunition and weapons of a globe spanning, tyrannical empire of extinction level, ecocidal wealth extraction.
In high school one of my daughters books was duct taped, the health books were from the seventies. The football field and uniforms were brand spanking new. The dad that wrote an editor got summoned by the superintendent. He didn’t go in.
Don’t rely on the rich for what the working class needs.
That capitalist pie isn’t divided fairly at all.
The working class should demand a fair cut, not minimum wages. If a job can’t support your housing, food, healthcare, & education for a lifetime, you’re being robbed of your economic rights.
Republicans just want them to be born but don’t want to take of them once they are here. Minnesota gives all kids free lunch and their teachers make a decent wage.
It helps a lot if schools receive the capital funds they need to install gyms, athletic fields, and swimming pools, ON TOP OF sufficient supplies for classes and classrooms.
We bitch about school teachers salaries (the men and women who teach, babysit, council, and protect your kids), but when a professional athlete gets $100 million contract, we're all for it!
Difficulty for politicians is that it will take 10+ years to see the economic benefit,as compared to tax cuts this year to get votes. To get stable support for 10+ years also means voting across party lines, which means sharing credit and facing off primary challenges for supporting the other side.
Don't know where you live . . . but $70K won't do it for ya in Denver. Teachers need to be in the $100K area salary-wise. But obviously . . . geography matters here.
So schools get a SMALL % of money from the federal government. Most comes from state and tax payers. So what you’re REALLY saying is you want the % schools get from federal government to increase
I’m a teacher and I wish you luck! About half the country thinks the poor kids should starve during the day instead of … oh I don’t know … giving them food to eat.
Alt text: All public schools should be funded to ensure teachers earn at least $70k, students receive free lunch and breakfast, and that books and technology are fully stocked and up to date. I would gladly sacrifice tax breaks for the ultra-rich to make it happen.
The Republicans have a continued vested interest in lowering the level of education in this country. Populism does not thrive within an educated and well-informed electorate with critical thinking skills. Countless studies have shown the correlation between right-wing voters and level of education.
What cracks me up even more is MAGA saying that dems lost because they felt insulted by being called uneducated. Like it mattered. Those fools are still convinced a billionaire that benefits froma broken system is going to fix said system.
MAGA are being very cynically manipulated by a group of people that *are* educated. We also could have had a real chance in 2024, had mainstream media not been so complicit. The networks had a duty to inform - and there was a lot that needed to be out there. They refused to do so.
Honestly, there’s probably a lot there to get to that point now. I’d bet if we looked at central office and admin salaries/political favoritism positions, there’d be a lot of surprising numbers.
But, yeah. Teachers deserve at least 70k a year.
And I would add, a robust curriculum to include arts, sciences, basic economics, media awareness and after school programs. All this (excluding media) was available in CA public school in the 40s! Think- in the midst of WW II on the heels of the Great Depression… yet we figured it out.
Money = power as far as I can tell power = Devil, Evil, and it has no numbers maybe 666 because it is NOTHING BUT EVIL. Look what Money is doing not just this country but to the world why don't we believe in God anymore? Be assured wealthy are NOT Gods and there are not GOOD.
Republicans in government who want to eliminate public education, leaving only private education as a wealth gate, and have them teach christianity and only christianity as religion, will never let it happen.
Add in classroom supplies being fully stocked at all grade levels. (At the very least, if a classroom has a printer for students to print to from their school computer, that printer should be fully loaded at the start of each day, a second ream of paper ready, and toner/ink stock check/fill weekly.
Musk made his fortune off of U.S. government contracts. Since he called Americans “dumb” (he used I slur I won’t repeat) he should fund the department of education rather than call for its elimination. The U.S. needs a better leaders and a better set of priorities.
He is earning at a rate of 1.2-2 billion a month. He could spend 500 million a month on the country and not hurt him.
Will he? Certainly not. Even his charities are shells clearly looped back to him
Theil is interesting. His family wasn't as wealthy as Musk but they were upper middle class German professionals who moved globally quite often. Thiel is religious & follows the monarchist philosophy of Curtis Yarvin. He's dangerous
No intent to dispute their sociopathic natures. It just seems around Musk that his whole family is broken. Like he is trying to show he is the good one. That his wealth some how is his grade for mommy or daddy, whichever he is trying to please. I am guessing mommy. I guess man child covers it
You're right. Musk is obviously seeking approval His father was very abusive, his mom abandoned him,as well. Otherwise, he tells so many lies & has no morality at all. He's a con artist who enjoys breaking the law, like his father. Dont forget the racism, misogyny & general disrespect.
And both of his parents have talked about wanting to spread their DNA all over (or rather that they should have as many kids as possible) -- very out of this world parents--???
Is Musk actually autistic, though? He's weird & socially awkward but he seems to have started with the autism story later in life. Perhaps as a cover for his drug use. ?? Just guessing, there seems to be some question.
His "earning" is largely based on the price of tesla stock, which is grossly overvalued due to pure speculation. They are not selling many cars and they are not making any meaningful advancements in AI. I doubt he would actually be able to liquidate if he wanted to.
He is earning at an exponential rate, he has more than doubled his net worth (69% growth as of November 6, to December 12, 2024. $264B-$447B) since Donald Trump won the 2024 election. He is projected to be the first trillionaire by the year, 2027.
For perpective, we all like or would like to have one million dollars. That's a lot. Elon has a million of those million dollars X 450. And counting. He gives nothing to charity I believe. Probably more $$ than King Louis XVI of Versailles --who ended rather badly when the poor finally rose up.
The United States wealth inequality is the highest of developed, post-industrial, wealthy nations. Albeit not the same, comparable to pre-revolution, feudal France. Just 0.0005% of the US population (150 men) contributed 18% of the entire 2024 American election cycle.
Maybe not as disparate as in feudal France but to think workers (like the New O bomber who had $$ problems, they report) have a minimum wage of $7.50! Sorry, but not sure i understand the 150 men comment.
Sorry but when we're talking 465 million million (Elon), that amount could go far in helping with so much. And the idea of putting such a person as Elon in charge of what to cut out (like kid cancer research) is in my view obscene.
better tax structure for sure but 450 billion should be at least at 50%. And would you agree we need to increase the shameful minimum wage of $7.50!!! By the way, aren't you watching game?
Do you think that the money spent just... vanishes? That it doesn't ever go toward working people who in turn, spend it again, and pay their own taxes on it? Come on. If we actually tax the wealthy, they're STILL WEALTHY -- but the money they're *not hoarding* is actually back in circulation!
I'm sorry, but - if you make over half a million dollars every year - you are /wealthy/. Even in costly areas! You're quoting that 40.1% of people aren't paying taxes - could that have something to do with our vast swaths of people working multiple jobs to still scrape by at/below the poverty line?
W.Buffet should have led the way decades ago based on his net worth and longevity. Let’s not reserve our criticism to billionaires whose political leanings are liberal, independent or conservative
Wenn er unsterblich werden wollte und die Menschen ihn in guter Erinnerung behalten sollten, dann ja, glaube ich aber nicht, außer Geld und Macht ist ihm alles egal, schade.
I couldn't agree more, but it's a little tricky when tax payer dollars are streaming into private and parochial schools. The Catholic Diocese is raking it in here in Green Bay. Check out your city and state.
MAGA Fascists: "We CAN'T have educated kids!! They won't believe our LIES, they'll demand a living wage, and they'll cause our regime trouble!! Keep 'em down, sick, uneducated, pregnant and scared. THAT'S the fascist way!!"
In Arizona, school districts bought tiny homes for teachers. I have a better idea. Pay them enough to afford a decent apartment or a house. I thought about going to Arizona to teach for a couple of years. I decided that will encourage them to keep underpaying teachers. They don’t deserve teachers.
My high schools IT department was completely paid for by a local business (Brewery). All new PCs and Monitors. The business got to claim the Tax break, and the School got brand new equipment for free!.
You’re making sense. You’re being rational and that type of thinking is obsolete. How do we know this? For example we’re talking about jailing librarians but a convicted felon will be running the US with his crew. wtf is going on?
Public Schools should be eliminated. Parents need to be responsible for the education of their children. Leaving that to the government is like sending your kids to play in traffic.
Not necessarily. Every child deserves to be as well educated as they can be. Some will opt for trades, some will aspire after higher education and careers in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math. Some will become future teachers.
No, not everyone is cut out for college. Summer school in the High School I went to could be used to learn the basics of a trade. I picked up welding (and haven't used it in 50 years).
hilarious how people are sold on the idea that this is something the public is preventing from happening because they arent giving half their checks meanwhile the 1% cannot give up 0.1% of their wealth🤡
One of the most common comments I've seen about people being AGAINST this is that THEY had to suffer through such things, so why should the next generation have it easy? I DID suffer through these things, and I don't want future generations to as well.
So true! As someone who taught middle school for 36 years I totally agree with all that IF - the rich people pay for the taxes by paying their fair share. Property owners have taken the brunt of all the taxes. People living on fixed incomes who own their homes are being taxed out of their homes.
It is INSANE that the population in this country struggling the most, not eligible for anything, no loop holes to cut taxes, working 1 and 2 jobs, are the ones in the highest tax brackets! Business can deduct expenses, rich jump through all kinds of loop holds-ex. the 💩-elect getting tax returns!!!
Never tie teacher pay to a set in stone number... instead tie it to police and firefighters pay. In fact police and firefighters should go on strike for teachers so that our students don't lose out.
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At least give them a LIVABLE salary if they must risk their lives to be there.
That’s the last thing republicans want.
https://www.discovery.org/education/2020/10/29/why-do-singapore-students-outperform-the-rest-of-the-world/
Not fair at all.
They're not going to, because better education is not in the best interest of ultra-capitalists.
For starters, Federal funds go to the states. There is some control how it is spent, but states mostly distribute the money as they see fit to schools. Then state and local taxes are used for funding.
Our schools need improvement in many ways. But the orange one’s plan to destroy the department of education and create Betsy Devos’s fantasyland would scatter Federal funds and programs.
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Huge portion of Federal funding supports the disabled, the poor, and the otherwise disadvantaged. Charters and vouchers
The Biden administration has 4 years to help fund schools post COVID. They’ve increased funding for early reading intervention: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/09/04/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-additional-actions-to-drive-academic-success-for-all-students/
I know 2 teachers in America. They BOTH drive uber after school to make ends meet.
Teachers in the USA:
I've always believed teachers should be paid far more than they are being paid.
They help to form our children and, in turn, our futures.
qualified should start at $95K
in the entire USA.
Maga don't care
We accept suffering. Murica.
We spend more per student than 40 other developed countries and yet, we fall far below all those nations in actual education.
Let's talk about trans folks. yes, /s
LIKE WE USED TO🤬🤬🤬
Silliest engagement bait. Facebook tier stuff.
FAFO about my support system (staff, but I hate that word. It sounds subordinate)
Signed,
every social studies and science teacher in America
That capitalist pie isn’t divided fairly at all.
The working class should demand a fair cut, not minimum wages. If a job can’t support your housing, food, healthcare, & education for a lifetime, you’re being robbed of your economic rights.
Pay all teachers and first responders the same salary members of Congress are paid.
Teachers and first responders have to be more qualified to do their jobs than the members of Congress. Time to start paying them that way.
Would you believe it...in some countries, sports are played through sports clubs.
But, yeah. Teachers deserve at least 70k a year.
They write the laws after all.
All they know is chaos!!!
It’s all been downhill since 1979.
I pay for private and taxes for a public school
with low rankings and crime.
Otherwise, no notes
Will he? Certainly not. Even his charities are shells clearly looped back to him
Yet here we go
I agree that pediatric cancer research should be funded.
The common denominators are wealth and power.
The top 10% pays 76% of all federal taxes.
The .01% is part of the issue. The discrepancy between them and your local lawyer in the same tax bracket is astounding.
And to expand the ultra wealthy tax brackets. Today people over $626,350 > are in the highest bracket of 37%.
I propose:
Under $2m - 36%
>$10m - 37%
>$25m - 38%
>$50m - 39%
>100m - 40%
$100m> - 41%
Along with that, bad teachers should not be protected by tenure systems, just like every other profession.
How can our government not tax the wealthy.. it truly angers me.
Pure greed.
Even if it means investing some of your hard-earned income to start your own business in that trade.
That way you don’t have to chase and build someone else’s dreams for 45 years of your life.
That sense of security subconsciously help to boost your confidence in most of your jobs opportunities.
no child should be hounded for breakfast or lunch $