Pay politicians teacher wages and teacher wages of politicians.

Being assaulted or disrespected only to find out the kid faced zero consequences. Not worth it.

Problem is pay and how the children act. If you’ve never been inside a inner city school of many of our major cities, an increase in pay would not suffice in attracting teachers.

Passing a civics test should be mandatory for home schooled children to demonstrate that parents actually taught them something.

There's no teacher shortage, there's a shortage of morally upright education officials and school administrators.

I am a current 4th Grade teacher And literally talked to my district to renegotiate my salary and they denied me,there losing teacher’s everyweek because they fail to invest in teachers commited in the field

Student behaviors and impossible performance goals are driving many teachers away.

Teachers should be getting paid close to 6 figures a year.

And parents disciplining their children when they're wrong would help too

The fact that they’re trying to figure out just how much is JUST enough for teacher to come back and then have them work 11 months?! Absolutely not.

I got paid 100k just before retiring after 32 years of high school teaching. Don't forget that we contribute 10k a year to our pension.

This man has never been in a classroom

The wage, the constant refresher courses, taking their work home like grading, disrespectful students and parents, unsafe environments, active shooter drills, too many requirements to become a teacher. If a student attacks you you can't fight back, I can't imagine why there would be a shortage.

I taught in a very affluent area and those kids were the worst. Can’t pay me enough to deal with entitled, spoiled brats.

Time for the politicians to start paying the piper.

Teachers deserve more pay.

Before retirement, I was seriously considering hiring a secretary because the workload was unachievable. That needs to also be addressed

Public school teachers are all six figure earners here. That's the way it should be everywhere.

There is no shortage of people with teaching credentials, but there is a shortage of financial compensation and supportive administrations. Those need to be addressed if there is to be any substantial increases in teaching staff levels.

Listening to teachers, doubt you can pay them enough to handle the kids in some areas.

And security issues

Top teachers make $100k a year in Canada

As a teacher, I didn’t care about the money. I knew going in I wouldn’t be paid a lot. I didn’t know however, the constant disrespect, apathy, and feeling like I was being set up to fail was insurmountable.

People don’t want to teach bad kids 😭 I doubt the money would work it would probably increase it at first until they get tired of it

Wrong about summer vacations: it was not about the harvest. It was about it getting too hot in the school houses so they closed during the hottest times of the month. If you want year round schooling, A/c in all buildings. Give longer breaks during the school year (think two weeks at Christmas instead of one, the whole week of Thanksgiving, etc. ) and raise the pay.

If you think teachers aren’t getting paid enough? Try working as A Substitute Teacher sometime! Substitutes get paid even 👎🏿👎🏿 LESS $$$ than a certified teacher…with NO BENEFITS! …No health insurance, no dental, or sick days! 👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿

Increase teacher salaries based on performance. There ought to be a way to remove/reassign teachers who don't cut the mustard.

There isn’t a short answer. But 100,000 dollars will definitely help.

As a public educator trust me. The main issues stem from moral decay in society (which has impacted parenting) class sizes and lack of trade/alternative schools!

These talking points are from someone who has never worked with kids.

Saying teachers need to work throughput the summer in order to get paid a good salary totally devalues what we already do. I was shocked when I heard that! Also, kids should have that ‘summer childhood’ most of us had. We went to the pool, rode bikes, camped out, went on trips, etc Why would you take that away from them?

The US spends more money per student than any other country and we are mediocre at best compared to other countries. If you can, homeschool or send your kids to private school. Keep them out of government schools.

I think civics should be brought back into school curriculum. It absoultely should be! We can blame modern politics for removing it to begin with.

I agree that a pay raise would definitely draw few people into the teaching profession, but nobody is talking about the real problem. The real problem is lack of consequences for disruptive students. The admins are afraid they will be sued, so they don't punish them. They will be sent back to the classroom with a lollipop. The kids know this and are abusing the system. The teacher's hands are tied when parents can't control them either. The entire Education System needs a reboot.

No higher pay will not totally solve the problem, it only helps teachers so they do not have to work 2 jobs and it is very needed but the need is to stop student bullying and negative behavior and cell phones will solve the problem.

Pay me six figures and I will absolutely work 11 months a year. What else can I do to make more? I will do it.

Salary is not the only problem but a huge one. In the USA students are disrespectful, lazy, and at times violent. The lack of work ethic is a big problem. Kids are not made to work at home and therefore do not work at school. They do not want to put in the time and hours to learn. The parents defend them and do not want to enforce homework. The parents do not help them with homework and do not extol academic success. Violence then erupts as kids rebel and are not held responsible by parents or admin. Admin is out of touch and fears the parents and will not rock the boat and protect the teacher. Admin should be made to sub two weeks each year in a Title 1 low income school's classroom. Further, remove the mountains of paperwork that have nothing to do with teaching and everything to do with tracking students such as SPED and behavior. Bring back real grades that are not inflated so everyone passes and gets a blue ribbon. Retain kids in elementary that are more than a year behind. This is best done early in grades K,1st, and 2nd when there is time to correct things without social impact. Bring in merit based competition to enter the best middle and high schools in the city. This is done across East Asia. Further, there is nothing wrong with an average teacher. If you can behave yourself and sit in that room and learn what the state requires for the grade then the teacher has done well. Yet, most average teachers would move up to other levels if the students behaved and we had supportive parents and admin. God bless these teachers as they deal with society's problems, loaded with useless trainings and paperwork, and have no support from anyone. Also, stop teaching to the test. This does not make a critical thinker and problem solver. Return to the 3Rs and STEM. Pay will not solve it as the older teachers retire as soon as they make basic retirement age and no younger teachers enter. Retired last May after 26 years in public school.

Maybe work on the book-burning parents too. The Republican party has undermined American greatness for six decades now.

It definitely enticed me. I am subbing full time while i get my second masters toward licensure in sped and the step and lane I will be on is more money I could have made moving up the ranks with my other masters.

is the sky blue ? maybe more pizza parties would solve the shortage

With state government going out of their way to eff us over, I don't think money is enough. And a college professor with a doctorate to make less than a teacher with a four year degree? Not okay with that, or give us raises too!

Yes to the civics test. It's each state's responsibility to fund education for that state. There are not unions in my state....but there are police unions...but that's it.

The fact that most teachers work 185 days a year, their median pay is better than an engineer per working day (Boise, ID $291.63 vs. $269.68). Would be nice having all summer off and every school holiday.

It will help.

Duh, this is obvious. Salary will obviously help. The entire nation needs more money.

yes

The importance of what is being taught should equal the value of the instructor. If its a subject being taught as "busy work" with zero to no value in society or the future workforce, then they should be paid in correspondence to that. Mix in all these other personal agendas being added in lessons like Critical Race Theory, Social Justice, Gender Identity, Pronoun Training and the value of such teachers should be the minimum wage their state. The bottom line is that the world needs scientists, engineers, innovators, entrepreneurs and individuals of actual value, not people stuck on useless merits of valueless degrees. The ones teaching the individuals that will lead the future are the ones deserving of the six figure salaries.

with the current state of schools and teachers dealing with violent students... i think you might need to do a tad more than just pay them more? what exactly? idk, i don't work in schools, but if violence is a problem, either counseling or deescalation courses or something? i remember when i was younger, a room i helped out in for credts, the teacher and aids were trained to defend and restrain the student safely and legally.... bring that back and maybe you'll see an improvement, just an idea based off observation.

Raising salaries has always been a problem. It's the lack of assault weapons ban. I retired early because arming teachers is NOT the solution.

Needed presentation! James Deagle

No.

These teachers are experiencing a burnout/

How about dropping down the teacher requirements because some of them are ridiculous.

Maybe all public schools should have a military type element to them , say a basic uniform , drill instruction every morning after saying the pledge of allegiance or singing the USA anthem or in our country O Canada anthem....then time for a healthy morning snack...now hit the books for a few hours and then compulsory sports to end the day. Hold on a sec I think I read about this programming in China

Higher salaries are not the only issue. Yes, Not the answer but an answer.

Im not even going to watch the video. Its been proven in European countries that less time in the classroom and a better overall curriculum to take care of yourself through life (think wellness wheel) PLUS the addition, but not so much of the stuff we teach already as well. Stop stressing out the students, we're not the smartest side of the world anymore sadly, and its becaue we want to force coding down kids throats and they don't even know what theyre working with completely yet. We need that life manual most parents wish they had for their kids, but it can actually exist. We can become better than what we are now.

The public school model is not fit for purpose. Let parents decide who and where

Employ soldiers especially marines as teachers and let see how those unruly and violent kids end up.

A universal basic income worldwide will increase the number of teachers and boost economic growth to unprecedented levels.

Teachers are being laid off in California rn

I am an American born citizen. I left America to live in Asia (I am not asian or white), and I immediately found a job in Asia, much faster than compared to America (NYC). My quality of life is much better now. The cops don't even bother me, which proves stop and frisk is a bad policy and not needed. What America did to me is beyond unforgivable and pathetic. This country should be ashamed of themselves and embarrassed how it treats it own native born.. And I have a bachelor's degree and it got me nowhere in America. It's a shame, I never want to go back to America ever again..

If we don't compensate teachers commensurate with the value of their work America will backslide even further.

Stop throwing money at the problem. You could pay teachers 1m a year. Problems aren't going away and will only get worse.

My junior high teachers were lazy. They were union and couldn't be fired. I taught myself by reading the textbooks and taking the tests in the back.

I don't buy the argument against higher teacher pay. So much tax money is wasted every year on pet projects and stupid stuff. We need some private sector style management to stop the bleeding and reallocated those dollars to teacher retention efforts.

This man has never spent time in a classroom. He is yet another "consultant." We need fewer of them and his ideas reek of inexperience.

Yes. Wow that was easy! Pay our teachers!

Ya think? Dah. Especially Republican states!

Answer: duh.

😅 yeah, the money... clearly someone who is not a teacher.

Couldn't hurt.

This guy has no clue. "Teachers should work 11 months out of the year like everyone else." Does he not realize the amount of planning and organizing teaching takes? If you increase the time we teach and our salaries we really haven't gotten a raise now have we? Not unless you give us an extra planning period per day. And then he goes on to say it is hard to get rid of "underperforming teachers." No it's not. Not if admins are doing their job. You can't fire your way to a better teaching force. The reason this guy is talking like this is that teaching is a largely female profession that takes an enormous amount of time to plan for. This guy is obviously not a teacher.

Who would have thought this would be the solution??? 😅😅

Scary speech, now I see why you guys are in need of teachers 🤣🤣🤣🤣

No. Not if you're heavily restricted on what you teach : no black history, no sociology, book censorship, etc

Idk, what are the teachers actually teaching

All good ideas.

And, perhaps no guns, free and universal healthcare, free education - even university, free childcare and so on. I look forward to replies about "socialism", "my freedom", "If you don't like it - move", "nothing is free", "my hard earned money" and "what does this have to do with teachers". For once though , I'll hope some of you actually study different systems. For real I mean.

No to groomers!