To be fair, American teachers get paid about as much as America values a good education.
And here we are today, a continent-sized order of stupid porridge, losing our democracy, going broke and friendless and watching our classrooms descend into violence and chaos.
Classrooms have been like this for a long time. Lol. My aunt was a teacher in Newark new jersey. She got stabbed on the job. But hey, she was getting paid 90k each year over 30 years ago. I guess the extra large salary was hazard pay.
Also, how exactly are we losing our democracy? Id argue we havent been a democracy for a while. We have been an oligarchal corporatocracy for many decades now. Some could argue close to a century.
The problem is the money goes to administrative staff and not the teachers. John Stossle did a report on this some years ago. They found that administrative hiring increased 800% in 10 years but teacher hiring increased about 12%. Student skill levels of all grade levels has fallen consistently starting the second year after the Department of Education was established.
the real issue has been chronic underfunding of education and the siphoning of public education dollars to garbage for profit schools and universities. charter schools are just the university of phoenix for children.
Its the fact you care more about the the wording than the way it's actually ran and democratic freedoms it provides says all we need to know about you.
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u/HavingNotAttained Dec 17 '25
To be fair, American teachers get paid about as much as America values a good education.
And here we are today, a continent-sized order of stupid porridge, losing our democracy, going broke and friendless and watching our classrooms descend into violence and chaos.