Education / Teaching thread

[Sun Wukong]

This guy hates educators even beyond the usual conservative talking points. He is going to make our lives hell for as long as he is governor. The only thing that *might* create a firewall is if the local hick reps and senators start to get push back locally as boards of education tend to be big central employers, especially in rural districts. But we're a long way off from that happening, if ever.

I'm effectively dead inside anyway. I'm prepared for the worst.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

caveat: i have not been able to verify this but might forget it if i don't post now

 

[St. Widge]

Shocking.

Landry isn’t backing a permanent teacher pay raise, confirming educators ‘worst fear’ • Louisiana Illuminator

Gov. Jeff Landry doesn’t want to make a public school teacher pay hike from last year permanent, frustrating teachers who have been pushing for the pay bump since early 2023.

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Landry benefits in no way from better educated Louisiana voters.

I don't so much think its about making schools private, it's about making schools bible schools instead of places to really be educated. If he has to make them private to do it he will, but the goal is more about a pacified electorate that won't question his, and his supporters, backward views than about taking things private.

 

[Tapxe]

This guy hates educators even beyond the usual conservative talking points. He is going to make our lives hell for as long as he is governor. The only thing that *might* create a firewall is if the local hick reps and senators start to get push back locally as boards of education tend to be big central employers, especially in rural districts. But we're a long way off from that happening, if ever.

I'm effectively dead inside anyway. I'm prepared for the worst.

Constitutional convention would start on Aug. 1 under bill passed by House

The state House voted on Tuesday to call a special convention to rewrite Louisiana’s constitution but only after Gov. Jeff Landry and House leaders agreed in a major concession to

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But Senate President Cameron Henry, R-Metairie, said that action could “open the floodgates” to other amendments to protect additional items in the constitution to win the votes of other lawmakers.

His prediction came true on Tuesday. Before approving HB 800, House members approved amendments that instruct delegates to not touch pensions for retired state workers and school employees and supplemental pay for local law enforcement officials.

Several critics of HB 800 warned their colleagues that the bill cannot protect any specific items in the constitution during the convention, despite the amendments.

Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans, likened the protective language in HB 800 to “a pinkie swear,” meaning that it’s nothing more than a promise.​

 

[Eeyore]

They're doing it in my hometown and have already done it in Gary, Indiana. If I remember correctly, Gary has one public school remaining.

Recently, my hometown abandoned my old middle/highschool. They said that they couldn't justify the expense.

They built a new, central school which replaced three high schools and several middle schools in a really unpleasant part of the city. The solution was to bus the kids in. Then they announced that they don't have the money to operate busses. Now we have kids who are expected to walk 4+ miles to, and from school every day (in a Northern climate). Now they're cutting teachers, teacher's pay, and taking money out of the teacher's healthcare fund during contract negotiations. They're three months past the state deadline to finish. They have been through mediation twice, and the teachers filed, and we're awarded an unfair labor practice against the city for backing out of tentative agreements. The goal is to break the union and eliminate public schools so that they can teach kids about magic sky fairies, sugar candy mountain etc. rather than STEM, civics, how to accomplish basic things like doing taxes and navigating being an adult.

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They did it again about two weeks ago.

They cancelled school for the whole city and said that they didn't have money to finish.

The next day they announced the closing of three elementary schools.

No plan announced. Just told everybody that the schools are closed. Nothing about where the kids will go or what happens to the staff.

 

[bonnjer]

Landry, Brumley push for sweeping classroom changes for teachers • Louisiana Illuminator

Louisiana’s governor and the state’s K-12 public school leader unveiled recommendations they say will free teachers to focus on classroom instruction rather than what they consider bureaucratic hindrances.

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Dear Governor Landry,

This is all fine and good, but could you please forking PAY US?!? Quit with all the smoke and mirrors and the "oh look, I'm trying help alleviate so much of the bullshirt that the government has put upon you" crap because it rings hollow if you aren't putting your money where your mouth is.

 

[Tapxe]

Landry, Brumley push for sweeping classroom changes for teachers • Louisiana Illuminator

Louisiana’s governor and the state’s K-12 public school leader unveiled recommendations they say will free teachers to focus on classroom instruction rather than what they consider bureaucratic hindrances.

lailluminator.com

Dear Governor Landry,

This is all fine and good, but could you please forking PAY US?!? Quit with all the smoke and mirrors and the "oh look, I'm trying help alleviate so much of the bullshirt that the government has put upon you" crap because it rings hollow if you aren't putting your money where your mouth is.

Caught the 6 pm WAFB on it. There were a few things that could help if I heard right. Stipends and after hour compensation for non curricular.

Are those more talk than substance?

 

[bonnjer]

Caught the 6 pm WAFB on it. There were a few things that could help if I heard right. Stipends and after hour compensation for non curricular.

Are those more talk than substance?

Probably so. Stipends are temporary and they can yank them whenever they like. After hour compensation won't amount to much for most people and there will probably be all sorts of stipulations on what you can get paid for and what effort you'll have to put into documenting your work.

 

[DaveXA]

Probably so. Stipends are temporary and they can yank them whenever they like. After hour compensation won't amount to much for most people and there will probably be all sorts of stipulations on what you can get paid for and what effort you'll have to put into documenting your work.

What teachers need are actual pay raises, not jumping through hoops to make a little extra. Teachers have long been criminally underpaid.

 

[Sailorsaint]

I don't know why but, I'm speechless. I shouldn't be surprised at all.....

"Wow, America Has a Problem" — Teen Seriously Asks Father if Adolf Hitler Is Alive or Dead

"What do they even teach in schools in America??"

www.distractify.com

 

[Sun Wukong]

I don't know why but, I'm speechless. I shouldn't be surprised at all.....

"Wow, America Has a Problem" — Teen Seriously Asks Father if Adolf Hitler Is Alive or Dead

"What do they even teach in schools in America??"

www.distractify.com

I mean, this stuff is taught. The issue is on the receiving end almost completely. The term brainrot that gets thrown around lately is applicable and so many of these kids have it.

 

[SharonT]

I don't know why but, I'm speechless. I shouldn't be surprised at all.....

"Wow, America Has a Problem" — Teen Seriously Asks Father if Adolf Hitler Is Alive or Dead

"What do they even teach in schools in America??"

www.distractify.com

File this under, "Do you talk to your child?"

Do you know the state standards and what classes she's been enrolled in? If she fails a test, do you go over it with her?

This is just clickbait used to pile on teachers and justify defunding public schools.

 

[Sailorsaint]

File this under, "Do you talk to your child?"

Do you know the state standards and what classes she's been enrolled in? If she fails a test, do you go over it with her?

This is just clickbait used to pile on teachers and justify defunding public schools.

I don’t see it as a message for defunding public schools. Quite the opposite. We need more money going towards education not less.

 

[SharonT]

I don’t see it as a message for defunding public schools. Quite the opposite. We need more money going towards education not less.

It's part of the cooked-up narrative of the "failing" public schools that has been used to open up public monies to private entrepreneurs. (big business, charter chains, etc.) And "more money" could be going right into a CEO's pocketbook, not necessarily into anything that actually benefits classroom instruction. Way too many scams going on, and not enough checks and balances.