They don’t want use to be prosperous, they wants us to be compliant and accepting of the station they will give to us. To unquestioningly toil in dangerous environments similar to cyberpunk themes. Until we break this two party system and their billionaire hold on us we’ll never advance as a race.
The wealthy aristocracy that controls both parties needs a paramilitary police force in the streets to quell the inevitable uprisings that will occur once enough Americans realize that the aristocracy has dispensed with economic populism and constitutional order
Wtf? A teacher wrote this about education and then uses the actual wrong fucking word like an absolute moron? Populous? Are you actually kidding me? Is this a joke? That’s an adjective. They clearly meant to say “populace”, which is the noun to use there. Looks like maybe they’re right about education having been defunded whenever the fuck they were supposed to get their own education.
I’m 70% sure this is a joke getting downvoted because sarcasm is hard, but regardless of whether this is a joke or not this is hilarious
Autocorrect is a bitch sometimes
That’s right! A single typo invalidates the entire point they were trying to make. Great job! :D
Either that or it was a typo
This holds true for almost any “modern” and “civilized” country, not just for the United States.
They just tend to dial it up to 11.
Well, it’s also kind of shitty teacher pay is based on taxpayer contribution! I get it, publicly funded locally vs federally for ICE, also idk how bad ICE pay was before Trump.
What are you trying to say? Public school teacher’s salaries are funded federally. Also, the cost of the Iran War alone could help pay teachers more. Instead trump’s goon squad is cutting education and making it more christian.
The truth is that it depends on whether the teacher is working for a private or a public school. If he or she belongs to a public school, the money he receives comes from the government, related and concerned government agencies, and the taxes of the people of the United States. Same goes for all the maintenance crew, cafeteria servants, guards, and all the staff of the school. On the other hand, teachers who work for a private school get their salary from the school itself. The money being paid to them comes from the students
No usually teacher’s salaries are from local city taxes whereas ICE is federal.
You might-be thinking of Basic-Aid schools which are typically, at least in CA, in wealthy zip codes.
Did you see that I sourced it, lol?
Your source doesn’t state that the money comes from the federal government. It says broadly that it comes from the people of the United States, this is true, typically school taxes are levied by the local government and disbursed to the the school to make payroll.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the federal government provides less than 10% of total funding for public K-12 education. The source you provided uses ‘government’ as a catch-all term, but in practice, school boards and local property taxes are what determine and pay teacher salaries. Unless a teacher is working in a high-poverty school receiving Title I federal grants, their paycheck is almost entirely funded by the specific taxpayers in their city and state, not the federal treasury.
You’re right
Public schools receive funding from three different government sources: local, state, and federal. Local and state governments contribute the majority of funding to support public school systems, while the federal government provides a small fraction (only about 8% on average). Even with recent infusions of federal funding related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal share remains the smallest.
Three different sources of funding and teachers are still having to buy their own class supplies with already meager incomes.
What a freaking disgrace.
Not to mention the unmentioned difference between number of teachers and number of ICE goons making that salary.
I’m all for teachers making more money. I think pay should be based on need and workload. Teachers rank high in both.
But the argument above is not great argument. It uses something I hate, something I agree with, and makes a false equivalency argument out of both. As inclined as I am to agree, the argument could be a lot better
Idk I kinda get it:
Federal salary employee that teaches young people to be intelligent members of a future society they’ll grow up to create:
Peasant pay, overloaded classrooms, stripped authority over class disruptors. 😭🍎📚
Federal salary employee that yanks families apart and throws kids in the back of vans to get shipped to concentration camps, and sometimes just shoots people because they were having a bad day and didn’t feel the customer service spirit:
SIX DIGITS AND A SIGNING BONUS BAYBEEEE💰💰💵🤑 (AIR_HORN.WAV x 5)
Our taxes fund both and they choose how to spend it.
It shows where the government’s priorities are, and it’s quite telling how they feel about We the People and our children.
I shouldn’t have to fucking care what they think about me and my children. God fucking damn it.
Read the books
Kinda hard when the education system fails to teach you how to read.
power always seems to instill a firm belief in one’s own immortality.
Says the person who actually thinks a signing bonus is what you get on starting a job. Then using camalcase to see like an idiot.
Join ice. Take the money. Be incompetent. Profit
i’d rather not risk being sent somewhere and having the guy next to me shoot and kill innocent people. that kind of shit would scar me for life
, Pray they don’t come for you when the curtain falls.
My local taxes say y’all got shit tons of money. The schools just do an absolute shit job blowing it on other things besides walls and salaries for the teachers.
My state allows you to unenroll your student and take the money towards you home schooling, or charter schools, or other education which is a whole quagmire I’m not gonna get into
But it’s fucking mind blowing
They get $10,000/student/year and they’re cramming 32 students into a classroom.
$320,000 and the teacher makes $45,000 of it
Where the fuck is the rest of it going?
We’re getting subpar education - 39% below grade level in reading. 36% in maths. But I would be the bad guy if I choose to take this and “continue the cycle of destroying public education”.
All the bullshit deals with corpos that sell textbooks and videos and online learning programs and tablets. Don’t forget the portal subscription to crap like ClassDojo.
We’re in the “poor” school district. Nobody has a tablet. Textbooks are older than the original sin.
And everyday for at least an hour they jumble multiple grades in the auditorium and have them watch “Whatever is on PBS” today.
Is that where it’s going? Do they just forward it along to the nice schools?
You’re probably in a population to needing a school area that doesn’t play very nice for funding of any sort. That or school board is stealing money
I have no idea how that works, especially in the US but I imagine there are some big ugly corporations that somehow got licensing costs in there. Like licensed learning materials or methods and stuff like that.
The money is always there. I spent a decade at a job where they constantly told us there was no money for pay raises, constant pressure on employees to cut or manage costs, shitty schedules, etc.
Then there was a hiring boom. They were throwing money at recruits like crazy. Better pay. Huge signing bonuses that were more than I made in an entire year.
The money is always there. It’s for the shareholders. Not you.
You could sign up and gum up the fucking works from the inside.
I completely agree with the message but had to snicker at “populous”.
That I had to scroll this far down to see this is rather telling of the state of education.
Why?
Please look up populous and populace.
Oopsie. Teacher needs to remember that populous & populace are two very different words 🤭
I don’t understand why the smart people and educators just don’t give them the horrors they’re wanting and expecting.
If anybody’s tempted by those numbers, remember Trump’s track record of not paying people.
It’s true. The ice employees have not been getting paid. And the bonus is a joke with so many impossible strings attached.
“Did we say ‘payable in USD’? Sorry, that was a typo. We meant ‘leprechaun gold’.”
Close! We actually meant TrumpUSD, an up and coming crypto coin that is expected to go up in value forever!
Are you under the impression he’s paying them out of his own pocket
Not at all. But that “$45,000 sign on bonus?” That was only for experienced, returning agents and only for a limited time (now passed). They didn’t say that anywhere in the advertisements. That proves they’re willing to lie to further their own ends, and nobody’s able to hold them accountable when they do.
The fact that the salary comes out of the taxpayers’ pockets also means it’s contingent on politics, and the democrats are likely to win in the midterms, and they’re starting to indicate that they may actually respond to public pressure and start pushing back.
You only have to look at all the homeless veterans and people killing themselves in VA waiting rooms to see how the empire “rewards” those who serve it. The McDonald’s employee who snitched on Luigi never got the reward they’d promised either.
Sign up, be so hated by the public that you have to hide your face, drag innocent people away to secret torture dungeons, get scammed out of your bonus, and yeah maybe you can get your 30 pieces of silver. But at that point, why not just sell crack? More trustworthy employers and less harmful to society.
Plenty of government people didn’t get the pardons/promotions/etc they were promised under Trump
