Current Events > Florida is going to have military veterans replace teachers

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Clearly, the public education system is broken, and better solution than "throw more money at it!" needs to emerge.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/aug/24/the-problem-with-public-schools/

Clearly, the public education system is broken, and better solution than "throw more money at it!" needs to emerge.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/aug/24/the-problem-with-public-schools/

Clearly, the public education system is broken, and better solution than "throw more money at it!" needs to emerge.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/aug/24/the-problem-with-public-schools/

WOKE CULTURE IS KILLING AMERICA

TOO MUCH SLAVERY AT MONTICELLO

Edit: And the person you linked to is a part of this conservative think tank.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Institute

On the other hand, private schools treated school families as what they rightly are: valued customers.

The schools solicited their inputs and responded by opening their doors to in-person schooling. And they did it safely, without any widespread Covid-19 outbreaks. Many provided an online option for those who desired it.

Goddamit, that was the one with the least screamy bias, too.
Hold on...

https://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/detroit-schools-spend-more-educate-less-than-other-us-urban-districts
Probably worse, I dunno.

Gonna take a break from this thread, before I get tipsy and extra ranty.

Yea no. If your goal in education is profit motives, then you're part of the problem in education.

run schools like a business.

47k is abysmally low for a trained educator even if they werent overworked. You guys dont get to hand them pennies and expect teacher shortages to go away. Handing untrained veterans pennies instead is even worse. Fuck this republican nonsense

The issue is that the argument lies on the good old, very wrong, republican argument that public funding breeds inefficiency because it's "a given" and that on the other hand the invisible hand of capitalism will make ensure that no matter what the goal is it will be met perfectly.

It's just a weird fetishism of capitalism.

The issue is that the argument lies on the good old, very wrong, republican argument that public funding breeds inefficiency because it's "a given" and that on the other hand the invisible hand of capitalism will make ensure that no matter what the goal is it will be met perfectly.

It's just a weird fetishism of capitalism.

lol 47k is pennies?

Don't get me wrong, American teachers are definitely underpaid on the whole. And most of it is because it's a job that mostly women do, and it's funded by taxes which are low in the USA. If it was a man centric job they would definitely be paid more. But at the same time, to scoff at a 47k starting salary just reeks of being sheltered and privileged. My graduate professional program for third sector work (another mostly women job) would have had me starting at something like 35k if I had followed through with it. Ultimately it's not that difficult to become a teacher so they will never be making a TON of money. But you can still end up as a department head making like 85k, which is pretty good.

But yes, we should support teachers more.

"a low pay isn't all that bad because some people get even lower than that"

no

you think teachers should barely get average pay? no. especially not with the level of disrespect they get and how important the job is

Because the alternative is overworked teachers.

To be clear, you are stating that those are the ONLY two possibilities in the universe?

Clearly, the public education system is broken, and better solution than "throw more money at it!" needs to emerge.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/aug/24/the-problem-with-public-schools/

What the Soviets got right, is running education as a "profit motive" about fifteen years out. China went nuts on that.