Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pay teachers more. Better pay = better teachers.

+1 million

No vouchers. They will only hurt our public schools.

Afraid of a little competition?

As a parent and community member, I value the public school system. And I don’t want the voucher-pushing RWNJs to trash them.

+1

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pay teachers more. Better pay = better teachers.

+1 million

No vouchers. They will only hurt our public schools.

Afraid of a little competition?

No there is not one place where Vouchers have made schools better that is a fact.

What they have done is fill the pockets of people like Betsey DeVos.

Youngkin has a plan for this to line his pockets.

Vouchers never worked, period.

Of course you are ok with substandard education, religious privates with pedos and zero oversight, non acceptance of kids with disabilitities, racism, antisemitism, and down right garbage.

Anonymous wrote:I am not sure what dystopian work PP lives in but this is not the case in at least 60% of the population.

I wanted to go into teaching as a second career. It was not the pay that kept me away but behavior.

Parents need to do better.

It’s literally across most districts except for maybe the wealthiest. The parents are drug users, absentee, don’t have stable housing, the kids are living with this or that relative, older kids are needed for child care or working. Read the article in the NYT today about the increase in absenteeism. In richer areas parents take kids out of school for travel sports or just for vacation, or to visit their home countries for a month. And older students report that the quality of teaching is poor and everything is posted online so they don’t want to sit in class all day with the disruptive kids so they can watch YouTube videos and do poor quality worksheets.

Schools should ban phones but other than that, not sure what you want parents to do. 🤷‍♀️

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are miserable. Schools are full of problems. What could be done to revamp public education? How about privatizing education and giving people vouchers for online schools, homeschools, or privates? Could there be some radical change in the next century or will the system remain as is? Thoughts or ideas?

You are stupid

Never ever was there a time that privatizing schools worked!

Christian Nationalists hell no

Vouchers Bestsey Devos and her band of garbage robbing the public schools funds blind for her own end greed.

No my public school dollars are not paying for your religious shit indoctrination

And by the way all of you whose children have accommodations guess what privates won’t take your kids.

Great over site of schools from the pedo grift crowd

Not to mention fact vouchers do not work!

I am not sure what dystopian work PP lives in but this is not the case in at least 60% of the population.

I wanted to go into teaching as a second career. It was not the pay that kept me away but behavior.

Parents need to do better.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pay teachers more. Better pay = better teachers.

It’s more the parents who are in a position to change things.

But listen. The majority of school systems don’t have a lot of high or even moderate earning but checked out white collar parents, who could just get a little more involved or come down a little harder on their kids behavior and then everything would be wonderful. The majority of school systems have overworked and overwhelmed parents at best, and absent or abusive parents at worst. Never mind the language barriers. Kids are being essentially raised by the streets in many cases. So I guess you can say, oh it really is the parents in many cases. But you absolutely can’t rely on the parents to improve the quality of the schools and the quality of the students. It isn’t happening. But those kids still deserve a good education so they hopefully don’t end up like their dead beat parents.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pay teachers more. Better pay = better teachers.

+1 million

No vouchers. They will only hurt our public schools.

Afraid of a little competition?

As a parent and community member, I value the public school system. And I don’t want the voucher-pushing RWNJs to trash them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pay teachers more. Better pay = better teachers.

I think the funds would be better spent by reducing the credentials needed for teaching to a 2-year vocational program, reducing teacher compensation by 35%-50%, but then hiring twice to three times as many teachers to reduce class sizes to no more than 15 kids per class.

Which is to say that academic outcomes will improve more with a greater number of less-qualified teachers, than with fewer but higher-qualified teachers.

Peer reviewed research does not support this approach. I'm not interested in having my kid taught by someone making 30k per year, who can't afford to either live near school or have decent transportation.

The correlation between class size and results is also low.

Peer-reviewed research is how we got in this mess. We are up to our neck in peer-reviewed research, almost all of which is going to recommend Leftist solutions whether the data points that way or not.

What we lack are consequences for parents and kids who cause problems & don’t take opportunities seriously. And I don’t need a mountain of data to tell me that.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pay teachers more. Better pay = better teachers.

+1 million

No vouchers. They will only hurt our public schools.

Afraid of a little competition?

Anonymous wrote:Pay teachers more. Better pay = better teachers.

It’s more the parents who are in a position to change things.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pay teachers more. Better pay = better teachers.

They already make a great wage when you factor the actual days worked and pension.

And yet school systems all over the country can’t fully staff their schools.

That’s the uncomfortable truth. People don’t want to teach because the pay isn’t commiserate with the workload. For all the comments on this site about how good teachers have it, there don’t seem to be enough people willing to take the lower pay and disrespect.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pay teachers more. Better pay = better teachers.

They already make a great wage when you factor the actual days worked and pension.

And yet school systems all over the country can’t fully staff their schools.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pay teachers more. Better pay = better teachers.

If we eliminate the fat pensions, we can pay them market and just give em 401ks like everyone else.

The pensions aren’t fat anymore

Exactly, they’re pretty much just 401Ks at this point.

Then why not just give them a 401k like everyone else? Wouldn't that cut costs?

Anonymous wrote:Pay teachers more. Better pay = better teachers.

They already make a great wage when you factor the actual days worked and pension.

Anonymous wrote:Pay teachers more. Better pay = better teachers.

+1 million

No vouchers. They will only hurt our public schools.