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Teacher Ralley May 1 StateHouse
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Seems some Teachers in the state are doing a walkout this coming Weds and protesting higher wages. The State of SC has already given them a 4% raise for next year. That is not enough they want 10%. Should get interesting since Gov. McMaster is not happy the Teachers are doing it. No Teachers Union is representing the protestors.
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The schools are closed for it.
Our limpdick Governor will probably be marching with them :x
NC Teachers pay is ranked 29th in the US and their salary has been raised almost 10% in the last 2 years.
All the money that goes to education I figure they should be making some serious bucks. They have the Lottery, Money from Liquor sales, Property tax and income tax money. I think over 1/2 of my property tax goes to education.
Let them march I hope its raining.
I forgot May 1 is a commie parade day that just shows you where their head is.
Does it take over 20 years to master a subject area of teaching?
Absolutely Not. The new Teachers are complaining their student loans need paid. WTH everyone had student loans to get their degree. Each district has a sliding pay scale. More years more money. More degrees more money. Wife is at the top pay scale cannot go higher with her Ph.d. and yrs. Of course with big money comes more responsibility . 180 Days a yr.she is making a little over 90k . Next yr add 4% she will be around the 95K a yr. plus any additional payment the district has her do. Next yr. will be her last. Most likely will do just do part time advisory for the district on her time.
I know a couple of teachers and they've got a lot of responsibilities. They've got to do things that should (used to?) be done by parents.
I think that throwing more money at it isn't going to fix a darned thing - until parents and society change.
I sat in on a class where a math teacher admitted that she "didn't know all the letters" when we were discussing cursive. She was in her late 30s. So this is not a _new_ problem.
The US has allowed way too many things to degrade in the effort not to offend or hold people accountable.
I have a local neighbor where the mom has done a lot of her son's homework. For whatever reason he didn't and she did. What's going to happen to his kids? Who's going to be able to do or help with their homework?
I gave a CCW class where a father / daughter attended. As I watched them fill out the application, the daughter had to tell the father how to spell the county name - Grant.
The monies available in 2018 were targeted to salaries. Teacher Unions demanded and got somewhere around a 14% average pay increase. Most of us realized that this level of pay was not funded in subsequent years. The unions were no doubt also aware that future funding was not there, but seem to have made the determination that they could cry about it for the 2019-2020 school year and someone would cave and give them more money.
At present, this decision seems to have bit them in the *, as all of the local districts have drawn up lay-off lists to balance their budgets.
So, those that are charged to educate our children are either manipulative and conniving, ignorant and easily lead, or just dumb.
Not the best of choices, but there are few other options.
Brad Steele
Hilarious.
I?ve been preaching this for years. Sports and, to be fair, music should be dropped from all high school and college programs.
Why are we paying these idiot coaches millions to babysit a bunch of thugs, that can?t read or write.
My taxes are paying for this, and it?s outrages !
Let the local rec centers pick up the slack, and the parents pay for it, with donations from the community.
School Choice legislation allows parents to send their kids to the private school of their choice and divert their tax money to that school, rather than to the local system. Obviously the unions and their political cronies can't allow that. So it doesn't get going, let alone passed.
My kids go to a private school so I pay their tuition there AND I pay taxes to my local school system.
The local school has a newer facility, most of it being built in the last five years. Big fancy gym, the works. And poor results to go with that. Their state school grade is a D.
https://reportcard.education.ohio.gov/school/overview/029694
They spend about $17 thousand a year per student. Over three times what my kids' school spends.
So cry me a river, teachers.
Nailed it!!
Not only that, but you children would not get indoctrinated into partisan DEMOCRAT ideology.