Education / Teaching thread (4 Viewers)

[bonnjer]

Teachers in The People's Republic of Indianastan are dealing with this group now.

Or maybe, just maybe, that teacher wants to encourage kids to put down their phone and pick up a book. Why must people insist on being so stupid?

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Teachers in The People's Republic of Indianastan are dealing with this group now.

I am sad to note that as I get older, my kneejerk reaction to violence increases- anytime I read/hear stories like this
It makes me want to show up to one of these gatherings with a 2 wood and do as much physical as possible to their lower extremities
The future must be protected from the mythological past

 

[Sailorsaint]

Anyone else see the irony in that PowerPoint presentation?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/25/us/florida-flagler-county-schools-black-assembly/index.html

 

[bonnjer]

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.

lailluminator.com

 

[jrdbrn]

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.

lailluminator.com

Smart move during a shortage

 

[Sun Wukong]

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.

lailluminator.com

Buckle up, because Landry is going to be bad news for the entire profession and not just in regards to money.

 

[bonnjer]

Buckle up, because Landry is going to be bad news for the entire profession and not just in regards to money.

I've got less than 10 years total (including DROP) before I can get out. I'm to the point in my career where I'm going to do what I want for the most part as far as teaching in my classroom goes, but I dread seeing all of the crap that's coming in the next few years. I'm fairly certain the goal is to crater the school system as completely as possible and then make it for-profit as completely as possible.

 

[Sun Wukong]

I'm fairly certain the goal is to crater the school system as completely as possible and then make it for-profit as completely as possible.

Bingo.

It's going to get very, very ugly.

 

[Eeyore]

I've got less than 10 years total (including DROP) before I can get out. I'm to the point in my career where I'm going to do what I want for the most part as far as teaching in my classroom goes, but I dread seeing all of the crap that's coming in the next few years. I'm fairly certain the goal is to crater the school system as completely as possible and then make it for-profit as completely as possible.

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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[bonnjer]

Not that I needed more proof they're trying to run education into the ground and take it private, but this just angers me. Not only did they say you're not getting a permanent raise, but that temporary stipend we gave you last year? Yeah, we're reducing it.

Louisiana House committee cuts teachers pay, early childhood education in budget proposal • Louisiana Illuminator

Louisiana lawmakers advanced a state budget proposal Tuesday that would cut public school teacher pay next school year.

lailluminator.com

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Buckle up, because Landry is going to be bad news for the entire profession and not just in regards to money.

You were saying?

 

[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.

lailluminator.com

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.​