Teacher Rally in Raleigh Today

[Kingpin]

Teachers are nothing but glorified babysitters to our right wing friends.

I suggest we agree and pay them the same way.

10$ per kid per hour, assume 20 kids in a class, for 6.5 hours a day, 180 days a year... That comes to $234,000 a year.

Make that 35 kids/per classroom and do the math. We could only dream of 20/class. A teachers dream

 

[farce©]

Many school systems are cutting back on teachers and personnel because they are in a budget crunch because of the state legislature's failure to pass a budget and because the money they get from the state is insufficient to meet their needs and being increasingly diverted to vouchers and charters.

All while the legislature is scheming how to keep counties from raising the money to pay for schools on their own, with Berger’s bill to freeze real estate revaluation for tax appraisal purposes, pushing a constitutional amendment to cap the total revenues local governments can collect in property tax, and requiring state approval for localities to raise sales taxes. Their intent to totally control the finances of the counties is clear. They are simply not going to allow blue counties to raise the revenue to support their own needs.

 

[wmheel1287]

Make that 35 kids/per classroom and do the math. We could only dream of 20/class. A teachers dream

Ain't that the truth. My spouse teaches 5th grade in Wake County and hasn't had fewer than 26 any year in the last 15. He also never gets a planning period and almost always has to eat lunch with the kids as well. Basically, from the moment he walks in that door in the morning until the last bus leaves, he is with kids. Even to step out and use the restroom he has to get another teacher to watch her class and his.

 

[Mulberry Heel]

Ain't that the truth. My spouse teaches 5th grade in Wake County and hasn't had fewer than 26 any year in the last 15. He also never gets a planning period and almost always has to eat lunch with the kids as well. Basically, from the moment he walks in that door in the morning until the last bus leaves, he is with kids. Even to step out and use the restroom he has to get another teacher to watch her class and his.

Yeah, all these idiots who think that teaching is easy and just glorified babysitting and that they don't deserve more pay because they "get summers off" desperately needs to go and try to do what modern teachers do for about a week or two. They'd never say that again.

 

[Bigs23]

Yeah, all these idiots who think that teaching is easy and just glorified babysitting and that they don't deserve more pay because they "get summers off" desperately needs to go and try to do what modern teachers do for about a week or two. They'd never say that again.

The decks have been and continue to be stacked against teachers and public schools.

Way too much is asked of both.