Teacher Rally in Raleigh Today

farce© said:
Agree about the mid career teachers. Most beginning teachers last less than 5 years and it’s not due to pay. NC Republicans are solely focused on tax cuts, trying to eliminate the corporate tax while restricting localities from increasing property taxes. The legislature also requires state permission for cities and counties to hold a referendum on whether it can tax its citizens.

So yeah, the legislature needs to start focusing on more revenue and stop treating budgeting essentials as a zero sum game. The problem with public schools lies more with parents than with the kids or school employees.
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Using the lottery money in addition to the school budget instead of in place of it would be good, too.
 
CarolinaFever said:
Using the lottery money in addition to the school budget instead of in place of it would be good, too.
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Instead the NC GOP is in favor of giving more and more public school money to vouchers and charters. They've doubled the amount going to vouchers in just the last year or two. They can justify it however they want, but the bottom line is that they're deliberately starving public schools to allow mostly well-to-do people to send their kids to private (mostly Evangelical) schools. If all of the voucher money were given back to public schools then there would likely be money to give teachers raises. To be honest the NC GOP has been extremely successful in their agenda to destroy public ed, and they've been sneaky enough to this point that most NC residents probably have no idea of what they've been doing over the last 15 years. Hopefully protests like this will wake some people up, and even if it doesn't, to hell with it - make these GOP legislators at least squirm a little.
 
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donbosco said:
"A March is being conducted by the teachers in and around Raleigh. They have misled and negatively influenced our children to participate in their politics.Meanwhile, nearly half of the students can not perform to grade level.These same teachers pushing their political agenda on our children think they deserve a raise for their performance.The Capital was respected in the past. It represented the sanctitude that is not being taught today."

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Phil Berger and other GOP leaders in the legislature have been complaining this week about teachers "not doing their jobs" and staying in their classrooms to teach their kids instead of taking a single day to peacefully protest for raises. Which is rather ironic given that Berger and his cohorts haven't been doing their jobs all year and passing a budget for the state - we're the only state in the country without a budget. So, according to the NC GOP, underpaid teachers peacefully protesting for a decent pay raise for the first time in many years = slacking on the job, but themselves failing to pass a budget = we're not talking about it. GOP hypocrisy at its finest.

And this march is generating a lot of publicity on social and news media sites across the state, which overall is good. But I will say that many of the replies in comments sections to news articles about the march are just appalling - many ignorant of the facts, some bitching about "radical left" teachers unions (there are no teacher unions in this state, they're illegal), and many just spewing hatred towards public school teachers and pushing homeschooling, "Christian" schools, etc. One thing this march has also done is to reveal just how much resentment and contempt and even hatred there is towards teachers among too many people in this state.

Overall, though, I'm all for this march - it's long past time for public school teachers in this state to start hitting back and being more aggressive in pushing for raises. Because the NC GOP is just going to keep quietly chipping away at public ed until there's almost nothing left. Better to go down swinging than just passively accepting it.
 
donbosco said:
Lots of potential future school teachers in my classes. The hate directed at teachers and surveillance of classrooms is always a topic that comes up no matter what class.
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That's a shame. But there's still a lot of respect and admiration for teachers. Hopefully your students don't focus on the minority negative views.

Of course, that respect and admiration doesn't seem to translate to electing legislators that will provide a salary commiserate to that view.
 
Raleigh or Charlotte, NC protest for teachers had CHILDREN PARTICIPATING!Way out of line these children don’t know what they’re doing and to use them as meat sacks that move is disgusting. They are tainting their future with these photographs and videos.I had to blur this kids face.
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donbosco said:
Raleigh or Charlotte, NC protest for teachers had CHILDREN PARTICIPATING!Way out of line these children don’t know what they’re doing and to use them as meat sacks that move is disgusting. They are tainting their future with these photographs and videos.I had to blur this kids face.
@clovis1931

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I do wonder how many of these posts are real people or AI bots (social media is rife with them now), or just trolls stirring up crap. I will say that this one reads like it's from a real person - the ranting, batshit crazy paranoia, and over-the-top, woefully misguided outrage all sound like something a MAGA believer would say. I mean, teachers who are parents taking their kids with them to protest for higher pay, or school kids who care about their teachers helping them protest for higher pay. THE HORROR!
 
Lost in the outrage is that today was a planned Teacher Workday for many of these counties, including Wake County where the march is held. Parents here aren't outraged, their kids were going to be out of school anyway.
 
This is what they meant by fighting the deep state. Teachers, park rangers, and aid workers.
 
donbosco said:
Raleigh or Charlotte, NC protest for teachers had CHILDREN PARTICIPATING!Way out of line these children don’t know what they’re doing and to use them as meat sacks that move is disgusting. They are tainting their future with these photographs and videos.I had to blur this kids face.
@clovis1931

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What a fucking dork. My older son (second grade) asked why he didn’t have school today. My wife, a former public school occupational therapist, told him that teachers were protesting for higher pay and more school funding. He immediately asked if we could go.
 
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