A certain writer (A.P. Chekhov) has written "Fools like to teach, intelligent people like to study". This is not always true, but it certainly applies to the majority of the teachers I came across as a student.

@@xgx899 Name ONE reason to teach?

@@youtubesucks1499 When I was teaching, the only joy was to direct my graduate students to realize and exceed their full potential. But that was only possible by carefully selecting just a few of them. In large undergraduate classes with curriculum prescribed by committee, it was joyless mass production, complete with grade inflation, student evaluation forms, and deans pandering to students. For high-school teachers it is, probably, worse.

@@xgx899 Yeah, I get you. Your students are drones. You did the best you could under a crappy system.

@@youtubesucks1499 I did not say it. Humans are never drones.

Yes, and they get to go around the School watering the plants!! Please make it make sense!!🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

WHERE'S THE LOTTERY FUNDS FOR EDUCATION BEEN GOING FOR THE PAST 50 DAMN YEARS? NOT BEING PUT IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. WHERE'S the money?

​@@Chulitatr Like they said early on, it's in admin. We hire out more administrative positions, but not teachers. Additionally, once you've been in education for a little while (teacher here) you'll quickly realize that every five years or so, there's someone new who has the "solution," and that solution usually lines the pockets of million dollar companies. My personal least favourite right now is Edmentum, which is currently eating off the corpse of the vague "if you're grading for completion, you're grading for behavior, and you can't do that" idea that's been proliferated over the past two decades or so. It's the only thing I heard in teaching school, and it's pure shite.

Don’t blame ya. You could always work online with online universities if you still want a career in education.

WHERE'S THE LOTTERY FUNDS FOR EDUCATION BEEN GOING FOR THE PAST 50 DAMN YEARS? NOT BEING PUT IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. WHERE'S the money?

​@@torixmc3957WHERE'S THE LOTTERY FUNDS FOR EDUCATION BEEN GOING FOR THE PAST 50 DAMN YEARS? NOT BEING PUT IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. WHERE'S the money?

@@Chulitatr Pell grants, FAFSA, federal scholarships, public schools, lunch, SPED

I taught elementary for 7 yrs. I'm done with it.

@MichaelLoutris Ya I know. The party is just running on all his ideas but doing it half ass. They don't even know how to articulate the good they are doing it seems. It's like they were given all the answers for a test they didn't study for. And they only kind of know the answers.

Yes ! It varies but typically teachers will pay for: books for students, pencils, paper, book shelves, rocking chair, rug that students gather on, bulletin board materials, posters, electric pencil sharpener, laminator, colored ink, classroom printer, crayons, glue, hand sanitizer, Kleenex, disinfectant spray/wipes, broom, hand sanitizer, paper towel, snacks. Schools are relying on parents to send their children to school at the beginning of the school year with materials … however in less fortunate areas students may not come prepared with supplies and the school may not provide these supplies! Teachers are then forced to purchase what is needed so that students are able to learn and complete basic assignments.

@@YTuser874 That is very kind of teachers in these areas, but (from my cultural perspective) an absolute disgrace that the government (local, state or nation) does not provide these supplies instead, or give teachers a budget for it on top of their pay. Of the list above, here we would possibly pay for the rocking chair, because a nice desk chair is provided, so a rocking chair is nice but not necessary. All the rest I would 100% expect to be supplied by the school.

It's true I used to work at Walmart and the teachers would stock up on paper pencils ect because many parents couldn't and others wouldn't buy the kids the basic supplies but the school will not reimburse them. It is so bad even though I was poor too and had a bad job I felt sorry for the teachers!

Most teachers make a hundred dollars least then I made part time in 1995 and 50 dollars less the I mad teaching in 83...my pay was 100 and 125 per half day ..😮sad but true also less Americans are college educated..

It's not so much that schools make teachers buy their own materials, it's that the school flat out says "we can't afford to pay for notebooks/textbooks/pencils/etc" as if they expect the teacher to just function without it. Also in low income areas, parents either can't or won't buy their child materials. So when it comes to teachers having to buy materials for their own classes, it's borne more out of empathy and a desire to not have their classes suffer due to reasons that the child has no control over.

WHERE'S THE LOTTERY FUNDS FOR EDUCATION BEEN GOING FOR THE PAST 50 DAMN YEARS? NOT BEING PUT IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. WHERE'S the money?

Where do you teach? Whst do you teach?

Same. Moved 2 years ago.

Please let me know which countries your recommend. I would deeply appreciate the direction that you can provide.

Where do you teach?

Yes please tell us!

School discipline is a touchy issue because the problem at its roots stems from parenting or lack thereof. Parenting has been boiled down to exhausted and permissive parents who choose to let their child do whatever they want if it means they don't have to deal with the stress of actually raising them. You've probably heard of the so-called "i-pad kids" who are given a tablet the second they begin to make a fuss, because it's quicker and easier to shut the kid up with an i-pad than take the time to help them process and manage their emotions. It's an epidemic in American households, and that lack of social skills and emotional regulation doesn't magically cure itself when kids go to school. As a result, in order to keep parents happy and the money flowing, administrations forbid discipline of any kind in schools, force teachers to simply pass the students along to the next grade without actually being able to teach them anything, and the students have zero consequences for any of their actions. As the famous phrase goes: "teachers are afraid of administration, administration is afraid of parents, parents are afraid of kids, and kids aren't afraid of anything."

But raising salaries will help a lot.

@@mustbtrouble It will not help A LOT. People can still make more at jobs where they don’t have to deal with the other issues in schools. Teachers at my school have left education over the past two years. None of them left because of pay.

@@kcm7134 ok then don’t raise wages. you’re right🤡

Good point; how can you simplify your classroom tasks so that your after school work: grading papers, preparing lessons, calling parents can be shorter?

@fredwelf8650 You are correct; a lot of those things you mentioned take place after school hours, but writing IEPs is a huge portion of a special education teachers job. It usually takes place in the evenings and on weekends for most teachers. An IEP can take anywhere from 4 - 8 hours or more to write, and then you have to conduct the meeting and finalize everything. I'm not the only special education teacher with this complaint. The workload is not sustainable long-term. The only teachers that I know that aren't super stressed are the ones cutting corners.

I really can’t stand it when teachers like myself say, it’s not the money. Please stop saying that! It’s definitely the money with everything else!!! If teachers keep saying it’s not the money, they’ll never pay us what we’re worth. I can’t pay my mortgage!! Stop saying it’s not the money!!!! We spent four plus years in school just like any other profession. We should get paid accordingly if not more…we shape the people who become lawyers, doctors, senators and so forth. We deserve more pay so we can take care of our bills, mental health and our families. There’s no other profession dealing with other people’s children with multiple behaviors issues. Imagine that!! We have families just like everyone else. STOP SAYING IT’S NOT THE MONEY!!! It is plus more!! Annoyed!!

@@natachaCB I'm sorry that you're annoyed, but be annoyed at the system not me... Take your anger out on them! AND who's to say that I am just like you? There are a lot of factors at play and not everyone is in the same situation and not everyone cares about the same things. I can only speak for myself and you speak for yourself. Of course money is a factor, almost everyone in this country deserves to make more money than they do right now, but it is definitely not MY number one reason for thinking about leaving the profession; it's not even my second reason... More like my third! Sadly, my teacher salary is the MOST money that I have ever made, so for ME... It is not about the money! At age 45, I changed careers to become a teacher in 2019. I have a bachelor's degree in business and went back to college to earn my master's in special education. The path that led me to become a special education teacher is surely different than yours. Money has never been a priority for me in my entire life and not because I was born into money or anything like that, but because I value other things besides money like being a mother and my time. Time equals freedom to me, but money makes me feel like a slave to the system. I have got a taste of having more money with my current teaching job and if I have to work 60 hours a week at this stress level, I don't want it! AND no, I am not married; I do not have a husband to fall back on. I am just good at handling my money and do not live beyond me means. Not to say that you aren't, but everyone's situation is different. So, I'll speak my truth and you can speak to yours! Good luck!!!

@@lwad3128 I understand your point base on your truth. My mindset about this is anyone who pays to get a college education should be able to pay for their basic needs. In my opinion, it is fundamentally wrong to not pay people for what they’re worth. For example, I have been teacher of the year twice. I am given the most difficult students every single year . With God’s help, I am able to produce amazing results. It isn’t right to applaud my performance and yet not compensate it. Yes, I love my students, but I also would like to be able to take care of my own family becauseI love them too . Both can be true! We live in a society that demands money the minute you step out of bed. It is the reality. Mind you, I’m not even speaking on the extra 15 or so hours due to massive stress and workload. I’m not asking to move heaven and earth, just give me what I’m worth and value what I do. I’m not only annoyed when teachers say they don’t do it for the money, but also at the system. It’s equal annoyance! And I truly live within my means and it’s still hard because you can only stretch the dollar so much.

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Never heard this criticism.

Your post proves the point... It should be.... "A" better education.

@@ianturpin9180 "a" 🤭

Truth!!! America wants so desperately to be a 3rd world country it's pathetic....🙄🙄🙄🙄

​@@ianturpin9180lol you assume that the erson is from the U.S.

Ban cell phones for these babies period They DO NOT HAVE THE MATURITY TO HANDLE THE BULLYING THE MAKIGNANT POLITICAL PROPAGANDA, THE CORPORATE PROGAGANDA, AND THE ADDICTIVE ALGORITHMS THAT KILL ATTENTION SPANS AND LEARNING POTENTIAL

the issue in the US is that teaching is not a high status job, I have no doubt a pay increase would be good, but the biggest issue is that too many people don´t give teacher´s the respect they deserve. It´s not just pay, it´s that they are increasingly very micromanaged, many parents don´t have any respect for how difficult the job is and how hard it can be to control a room of teenagers. There´s also much less of a culture of accountability than there was, teachers increasingly get blamed for behaviour problems in school. Now sometimes the teacher could have handled it better, but it should always be on the kids to behave. We´ve lost that now.

@@Minimmalmythicist Increasing their pay recognizes the level of respect that should be demanded by the position. That's part of why it should be raised...

@@ciara6359 I agree with that

@@ciara6359 The point I´m making in addition though is there is a persistent culture of disrespect and increasing the salary alone won´t stop it.

The problem is their value is not measurable. Unless you want to use student achievements to define their values - which will tell how bad of the teachers they are, so probably not.

Teachers have a union.

teachers unions ARE the problem, you nitwit. or did you not listen??

@@kellybockholt5641 You absolutely do. LGBTQP and Critical Race Theroy

I think the problem with funding is more how the US has a weirdly localised funding system for schools, compared to other first world countries. Public schools in fairly wealthy towns are often really well equipped, but in poorer neighbourhoods, they´re really struggling. It´s also that the US has lots of really counterproductive policies, i,e No Child left behind means schools get financial penalties for poor results, and in a poor area it´s obviously much harder to get good results than in a wealthy, stable one.

Try 180 for middle school math 😅

I had 150 for my chemistry classes.

😂😂😂😂 ignorance has no limits.

Lord protect US from Bernie Sanders...

Did you actually watch the video

The motif of inadequate funding was pervasive throughout the hearing: teachers are often underpaid, the work conditions are often poor, and the available resources are often minimal. If anything was lacking in the hearing it was the connection between teacher certification processes, including college debt, and the classroom.

The lower half of your students who are uneducable don’t need “materials”, they need jobs as trades apprentices. And to no longer have over-schooling inflicted upon them.

@@marcmeinzer8859 Unfortunately, No Child Left Behind has been misinterpreted and it has meant that you can’t fail a child. Meanwhile, you still have parents that believe if the kid eeks out a passing grade, then they are college material and you aren’t allowed to have real conversations about what the child can be better at.

@@docsmith9915 I taught for 8 years and have nothing but contempt for middle class douchebags who tell their kids if they don’t go to college they’ll be unemployable. So the kids go to open admissions state universities and flunk out within two quarters. Then instead of enlisting to get trained as air traffic controllers or nuclear reactor operators they get jobs as city service department workers either collecting trash or filling potholes working in neighborhoods where they couldn’t possibly afford to buy a house.

There is no God. Human beings might love Bernie.

She has a real entitlement thing going on

She is terse and fast-talking but her main point that administrator’s priorities are indicated by how they budget, not by what they say in policy documents or school codes.

She was extremely nervous, watch her body language and the back of her chair, but she was intelligent, very informed on the subject matter, and advocating hard for something she believes in whole-hardly. I think she should have paused and taken a deep breath once or twice to slow herself down, but otherwise I applaud her courage. Speaking in front of Congressional leaders is not easy. Could any of you done better?

​@@CatCaretakerIDI had to rewatch her speech to make sure we were even talking about the same person. Are you talking about Ms. Neily, the mother who thinks teaching social acceptance is why students' grades are in decline? Yes, she used statistics in her argument, but never drew a connection between them and her conclusion. You should have realized how unserious she is by the time she mentioned "woke kindergarten."

Unfortunately, entitled unhinged people are not rare.

The US has a virulent anti-education mentality reflected in the basic divide of one-third of adults with the BA and two-thirds without. But, everyone recognizes the importance of getting at least the high school diploma - no one rejects this! So there’s a baseline of values. The critical issue is ‘results’ of education. Too many schools do not produce results for most students. Consider the addiction to sports by most schools; what are students doing? Learning or playing games?

Teachers aren’t leaving because of “fake culture war lies”. It’s pay and lack of discipline.

Teachers want our kids to be indoctrinated.

Are you a teacher?

Can you elaborate on the ‘suffering of retired teachers?’

@@fredwelf8650 they are forced into abject poverty, from a once lower middle class existence, to struggling to afford the most basic needs on a severely low pension in retirement, after devoting their lives to educating the nation's youth, you would think they at least earned a comfortable existence when they retire.

@@soundmind1705 I am a retired teacher with a pension, social security and an annuity from savings over the years. I am not in poverty. I am skeptical of your claim although I recognize that many states pay teachers peanuts. This was a main theme in the hearing. But, abject poverty? That seems like a leap.

@@fredwelf8650 Texas doesn't allow retired teachers to collect social security. They refer to this as "double dipping". Pensions here are very low. Please refrain from dismissing another person's experience simply because it's not your experience, and be thankful you are blessed to have retired from a state that values their teachers.

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