cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35280201
All of those rewards would come after the current fiscal quarter so the greedy ghouls in power don't give a shit.
this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2025
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No can do, we have to give the shittiest football team to ever grace the NFL $600 million in public for a new stadium despite their owner being the richest in the league.
The goal is deprofessionalization.
The model for public schools will be online, self directed courses. The multiple choice questions will have answers that are trivial to pull up online and free response answers will be graded by AI.
The goal is to replace qualified teachers with barely qualified babysitters; there are teachers in classrooms right now with nothing more than a high school diploma. They want the job to be as “deskilled” as working a fast food job, so that the pay can match.
Imagine gymnasiums full of children on chromebooks, monitored by a handful of “teachers” just there to make sure the students don’t kill each other.
Because one aspect of the shortage isn’t just that there aren’t enough qualified teachers - it’s that teachers who are educated about their own rights, join unions, or advocate for policies that benefit students but don’t align with the rigidness of standardized testing are unwelcome and unwanted.
I can’t get a teaching job, but survive tutoring, filling in the gaps. Schools want the teachers that will upload worksheets and accept copy-pasted versions of the first Google results. They want students to be passively pushed through to the next grade, whether they understand the material or not (one district I worked in required parental permission to fail a student). The ones with wealthier families can hire someone like me when those standardized test scores come in and it turns out that they cannot solve a basic algebra equation.
The “powers that be” (administrators, government officials, parents, school board members) want teachers to be interchangeable pieces, cogs like a McDonald’s worker. They want them to use whatever canned curriculum slop the district signs a contract for, regardless of whether it works or not (see abandoning phonics for “whole literacy” - teachers knew it wasn’t working)
The system is barreling towards collapse.
I called my rep and they said they won't do it because the opposite of all those things keeps them in power.
So many people are in the positions they are, not because of malice, but because they already have the incorrect views that align with capital. Which is very much by design in the way our education system has been structured.
I think of what Noam Chomsky said to the journalist interviewing him about media manufacturing consent.
"I'm not saying you're self censoring. I'm saying that if you believed differently you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting."
So, as you said, bluntly to make a point, the actions of politician's can be perceived that way. And the material outcomes are the same as if they were directly being malicious.
But, the reality is more sad. They are in those positions because they do believe that what favors capital is the most important outcome. The filter of our media and political landscape ensures this.
Link of Chomsky talking about this.
Sad part and why we're going to destroy ourselves is because everything good is planted, everything bad is immediate. Good luck everyone.
That would be socialism.
Paying teachers more is win/win regardless of any viewpoint
Nah not if you're right wing. Then it's one of the first places to start cutting budgets, together with Healthcare and elderly care. You want people to have less education, makes them easier to manipulate and keep under control.
I don't know. I'm in Europe, it doesn't work like the US in my country. I have yet to find a party that doesn't use budgets to further their own cause. It applies to both left and right wing here. Supporting higher budgets doesn't need to mean the curriculum has to be in align with party beliefs. Education needs to be affordable and be good to teachers salary wise. No "higher wages only if". You'll never achieve an agreement in a democracy if there are conditions. All parties should agree to increment spending on education. If a right wing party uses leftists ideology in education as an excuse to not fund education, make it work so there is no argument to be made.
Anything that isnt teaching strictly the bible is leftwing education here.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-religion-school-ten-commandments-9159f412c4f47ad421551885093a4a22
If a right wing party uses leftists ideology in education as an excuse to not fund education, make it work so there is no argument to be made.
The problem is that our right wing thinks that basic facts are 'left wing ideology' and we can't "make it work".
Like, I grew up in a conservative state, with an education that stripped out everything they complained about, and we didn't even cover reproduction in high school biology because the right doesn't want sex-ed. Nevermind that kids were banging in the bathrooms, we couldn't learn about mitosis because it might lead to impure thoughts.
What sort of compromise would you even suggest with that?
Edit: I had a girl in my senior class that was pregnant with her third kid, and she literally didn't understand why she kept getting pregnant and actually thought god was sending her babies so she'd be a great mom.
They are raising teacher pay in Texas... yet also trying to force the 10 commandments posters in classrooms and curriculum with protestant bible based references.
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