"I feel like a dog begging for scraps every single year." teacher Heather Boyle told VICE News. WATCH More on teacher walkouts across America here:bit.ly/2GpeO5a

Teachers know they aren’t going to be rich, but they never expected to be poor.

10 years with no pay raise? Thats atrocious. I dont see how anyone could be against a pay raise for our teachers

After the teacher pay raise bill was signed, they retracted and cut part of the raise. How pathetic.

Meanwhile sheriff in Alabama bought 700K beach house using tax payer money. Muricaaaa, #MAGA.

Our schools are so broke in Oklahoma that we don't even have school on Fridays to cut spending. When that happened it seemed like such a shock.

This is pathetic. I'm 21, working in Canada. No post secondary education and relatively new to my field. I'm making more than the teachers in OK with 20+ years experience, even after the CAD to USD exchange rate. And they deal with stubborn assholes like me all day.

All the clocks in my school are broken and we can't even afford to buy new ones because we don't have the money. This is pathetic.

America dosent seems so great anymore

Health care workers and teachers make some of the lowest wages in America compared to athletes and entertainers. Is it me or do we have our priorities mixed up??🤔

Im from Hungary and Im a teacher with a MSc degree in two subjects teaching these subjects in a foreign language. Im earning 470 USD a month. Renting a room per month costs me 500 USD with bills. Im working after school for hours (second job) to earn enough money to buy food. Im glad Vice is in OK to show these teachers have a voice.

1st raise in a decade? That is sad and pathetic. Get your shit together America.

A 4 day school week, thats embarrassing!

Loved the library meeting. Everything is taken care off in every area. We got a raise! We NEED more. "I won't tell you the walk out had an big effect. It definitely did something."

i work as an Assistant teacher abroad in an elementary school with no education background and I make more than some of those teachers

Just left my home state (OK) for Texas to teach...more schools and higher pay just over the border. Support staff needs higher pay too!

As a student in North Carolina I feel very lucky At my school we have a lot of teachers and i feel very privileged. I really hope they pass it for Oklahoma.

When has real education ever been given in America? They teach what they want you to believe, not the truth!

Maybe move the budget from the military by 1 percent and it would probably pay for everything.

And they still don't STAND UP FOR SUBSTITUTE FOR guess what!!! We're starving

I dont remember the last time Oklahoma crossed my mind. I was just like "What is Oklahoma?".

The OK legislature passed 1010 (teacher raises) without fully funding it. The problem is they have to actually raise taxes to do it, and the republicans that control the state legislature are extremely anti-tax. They have already removed some of the funding that was left and plan to cancel all of the tax increases with a vote in November.

How can teachers make so little but Lil pump can make so much :/

where's trumps money when you need it.

Correct me if I'm wrong : the avg median income in ok is $49176 the avg teacher income is $45276 with summer and winter vacations off. Even office workers have to take work home thesedays. According to that the avg teacher gets paid 26.47% more than the median income in ok. With the pay raise, the it increases to 43.5%.

Funny how they suddenly decide to get their asses in gear only when their backs are up against the wall...

GO TEACHERS!!! They absolutely should strike. In OK a union is needed. +$1 tax on cigarettes is nice, but a +$1 tax on a gallon of gas and diesel is needed. They're even more unhealthy and costly to all of us. Make them pay for the damage they do to all of us.

I can't believe how many anti-teacher trolls are here. If they want to improve schools let them go back to university, get a degree or two then start teaching themselves with no union support. Where are the conservative teachers who think that OK teachers are earning enough?

Truckers face similar problems with pay but most truckers don't go home each night to spend time with family. The grass isn't always greener on the other side.

we all must support teachers and public education, it's the future of our world

that is a pretty white cast of characters

I live in Oklahoma😐 I hope we all meet an agreement

Ugh I’m gonna go out on a limb but is there any teens 14-18 that live in Oklahoma who worry about this stuff? Not just to get out of school? (I live in mustang)

That is terrible. Teachers deserve a yearly raise.

A four-day school week? Goddamn!

50 grand for a part time job.

adjust lawmaker pay to teacher pay. they both work about the same a year.

You can definitely cover the entire average curriculum in fewer days. Probably three, or even two, depending on the complexity of the subject. That is not the problem. The problem is that not every student learns at the same pace. Many students will not be able to keep up with that pace and there is no time available for individual help for those students. So the case is fail or fall behind. Worst case scenario, the pass grade is lowered until they do pass. There is also NO extension work for the brighter students. Just get the course covered, is the program. And all this with underpaid and unqualified teachers. A recipe for disaster, even with committed teachers who get "burned out", trying their best to help students along. But that is what the Legislators in these States want, and that is the goal of the voters. Only voters with kids care, and they are in the minority. A recipe for a downward spiral. Not a new thing, though. This degrading of public education has a long history.

I was a supporter of Fallin before this, but how she has handled this situation disgust me. Mary Fallin needs to go!!! Our State Government is beyond incompetent. Mary Fallin isn't even a Oklahoman!!! She's from Missouri!!! My mother is a teacher and her class room is so outdated cause the school has no money because Funding for schools was cut by 3 Billion in the last 3 years alone! Mary Fallin has to go!! The Teachers have their right to strike!!!

ooops! What they actually did was give an AVG of 6k! actually most teachers who have been teaching for less than 20 years will get less than 40$ a paycheck. nice

Where has David Boren been? Oh thats right.. siding up to politicians and again failing to support public education.

I felt sorry for these teachers until several admitted in another video to having voted for the same politicians who denied them a raise, due other issues such as abortion and transgender bathrooms. Republicans love the poorly educated, so you get what you vote for, I suppose.

Future of student 👍👍👍👍

This is what happens when Republicans have power

When I was a young man full of hope, and optimism I viewed every American From Maine to California, Texas, to Topeka, Boston to Beverly Hills, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, et al, as my family, brothers, sisters, cousins. I swore an oath to defend them all. Today however; since the "(fanatical right wing)" barged in to town, the "(Republican criminal cartel)", that kinship is shattered. That American dream has become a nightmare of wanton ignorance, hostility, deceit, insult, and conflict. Want to know who's kids are putting graffiti on the walls, stealing your car, knocking up your daughter? Who's selling opioids on the corner , filling up jails, costing $billions per year for prosecutions, incarceration, violence, and tragedy ?????? Look no further than the Republican bomb throwing machine of "anti children" anti government, "anti middle class", "anti science", "anti common sense", anti teacher, anti union, anti citizen, corporate whoring Republican wrecking ball. Look no further than the millions of Children they abandoned, and stabbed in the back, who's teachers can barely pay the rent. "(Betsy De Vos)? " "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?" I am eternally grateful to all the courageous generous teachers of my youth who at least then made a barely reasonable wage compared to the paltry wages of today. They allowed me to survive. Teachers are as important as any missile, or strategic bomber. They are the underpinning of our society, critical infrastructure. That costs real money. Their pay is among the lowest of all industrialized countries. That BS is going to come to a crashing halt very soon, no later than next November.

This is sad af

Not all school districts can go on strike. 😡😡😡😡😕💵💵💵💵

the major problem is your job depends on the GOVERNMENT. You need to get off the system support.

They need to legalize marijuana... that tax money...

Every teacher should make 250k a year

If you are about kids stop harming them be sending them to government schools. Let them choose.

guess they will pass cigarettes out at recess

This is the reason why Americans need unions.

End private schooling and all the public school problems will vanish in the wind like so many farts.

Yes walk out..its the only way. Save our public school please. They need to help them self ..700 billion for the military but not for public school. Other countries are passing us on education. China has better Public Education then we do!!! Public Education matters, save them Please. Action, no more talking its the only way they will Listen and Maybe Trump will see this. Could be good thing or bad thing . A tweet can bring this to the Attention of the country Where is money to make our public school great again? Huh..

Oklahoma can't ever execute correctly !

Is it because teachers get 3 months off a year and work 7hrs a day, or do they get paid through the holidays and get paid 8hrs a day?

By the way notice comments . Some look like they are coming from fake people . Don't give their hate life, ignore them .they can only comment that's all. ..ignoring somebody comment is not silencing them .its choice to not give that comment life of its own. You don't need to agreed with me at all But neither Do I.

I'm still trying to figure out why it's the state's responsibility to pay teachers more; it seems like individual school districts should be paying their teachers fairly. The state doesn't even need to be involved.

I am in college now might uses an iPad

Teachers alone time ago made a decent living. Now a days, you can graduate from high start at an entry level job or work your way up and make more money than a teacher.

Make more people pay taxes to help pay for this.

People want more funding for stuff like this but less taxes MAKE UP YOUR GODAMN MIND

End of Esau is the Beginning of Jacob

Good education comes from a teachers knowledge and student’s ability. How are raises about student’s education?

Vote democrat.

lmao

Do uses iPads in this school

>conservative state

I wish I could just demand a raise working my ass off as an hvac tech, but I would just be told deal with it or quit. This is disgusting.

given that regulations have massively favored the rich minority that buys its influence over politicians and government; i hope these teachers show no mercy and make an example to show America what ought to be our right priorities. training the next generation of thinkers or having to take care of other parent's little problems, while they go off to personally enrich themselves, should not be seen as a sacrifice, but as the truly valuable contribution to society that it is. becoming a great quality teacher must be rewarded and incentivized far more than becoming a corrupt wall street type that favors short sighted corporate gains, which from historical experience sometimes turn out economically disastrous outcomes--although this shift in favoritism will likely never happen. by extension, incentivizing apt individuals entering teaching in the math and sciences, considering the future direction of the economy, ought to be an even higher priority. education is the great equalizer, and promoting the growing gap in education is to promote and further the already pervasive divisiveness, anger and frustration already plaguing the country. promote inequality in education at the risk of dire consequences devoid of any ethical or moral values

🎩 off to these teachers remember dangerous mind the movie yeah they were probably talking about future that’s how schools look today

I make a six-digit salary and I only work 25 to 30 hours a week remotely from home. I achieved that by studying hard, getting a technical degree in college, producing quality work product, and branding myself. While 70% of the students at my university majored in Liberal Arts, I took the less traveled path leading to a smaller supply of professionals in my chosen technical career field. Bottom line, you get paid more when there is less supply of people who can do what you do in the labor force. If you get a liberal arts degree and expect a career as a teacher, then expect to be easily replaced by an abundance of other job seekers with the same educational background. And if you think your union will protect your job as a government employee, then you should read up on what Ronald Reagan did to air traffic controllers who went on strike in 1981. Those that did not return to their jobs were all fired and then quickly replaced by scabs, including by air traffic controllers from the U.S. military. The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization union was then quickly within weeks after the strike began. Don't rely on your union. Rely on YOURSELF.

Lady, if you want good education for your kids, send them to a private school because public education has to take every one in and teachers are overwhelmed by all this diversity. Teachers do the best they can with the limited resources they have and being underpaid on top of it does not help educational outcomes either.

Oklahoma- the result of Republicans ruling forever

Then it spread to white and got everybody unidived attention Andre 3000

Oklahoma is not a rich and populous state. Not sure where they want all this money to come from.

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Smash the strike.

Not a single brown person in that meeting.

Oklahoma is not nearly an industralized or population exploding state as most of eastern US and the western coast. It's the midwest. All of these states are still developing, they're practically 2nd world in many regards. Expecting such funding is pure fantasy and a misunderstanding of their states economic and population situation. You can't just tax everyone and everything into the ground, because then no one wants to invest into your state, no growth, and eventually people will just escape your crushing hellhole to greener pastures. I'll say it once: If they don't have the budget, they don't have the budget.

Greedy teachers we will have to privatize education if they keep draining us dry where will the money come from privatize it

Teacher in OK already got $6,000 now they want another $10,000. Holy greedy rats Batman!

They have 3 months off and a super easy job what more do they want?

I go to a school in oklahoma.A lot of the teachers are money-hungry.The are just like little brats.They got 6,000 but they want more.I feel like they don't care about my education they care about the money

Apparently Oklahoma rates 48th compared to all other states in education, so maybe demanding more money isn't the solution.

As an Oklahoman can I say I don't care what happens? My kids in private school

Maybe you guys should quit voting liberals to the education board. Maybe, just maybe, if you got a conservative or two things might change for the better.

The government can't continue to fund these schools. Parent's should pay for private schools.

Teacher’s Unions should be purged.

Teaching should be automated

I am democratic but they are just money hungry

Greedy teachers

The teachers got more than enough...for Oklahoma. Deadbeat