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[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.

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.

 

[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.

 

[Zardnok]

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.

No. No Governor Landry can not give us a Pay Raise... A big part of small limited government is limited government functions, like paying teachers or fixing pot-holes.

 

[bonnjer]

No. No Governor Landry can not give us a Pay Raise... A big part of small limited government is limited government functions, like paying teachers or fixing pot-holes.

It's definitely not a pay raise. It's barely a maintenance of the pitiful stipend they tossed our way. Still irks me that they were initially going to cut the stipend.

 

[Tapxe]

Estimates put the chances a child will be subjected to some form of trauma and neglect at 75%. Both directly impact brain function.

A child in those circumstances develops to survive not thrive. We could treat that first and include improving resources for struggling parents.

Or we could go deeper in the whole by cutting those services so 1% of the people can bank 6.5 million by the time they hit 30.

At least every student will know the commandments. Maybe that'll fix things.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

 

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