New Mexico is often rated dead last in terms of pre-k-12 and in terms of education overall. Example: Best States for Education | US News Best States.
Pre-election dem propaganda: The 7% pay increase that the democrat-led legislature is considering that's mentioned in the article. If they actually wanted to do it - they would have done it already.
New Mexico asks Guard to sub for sick teachers amid omicron | AP News
The governor said state workers are encouraged to participate in a spirit of public service and that no one is being drafted. The state hopes to quickly deploy 500 new substitute teachers and day care workers.
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State public education officials say volunteers from the National Guard and state agencies can qualify for substitute teaching with as little as two hours of training and a two-step background check. School districts will decide whether military personnel appear in uniform or casual dress.
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Amid longstanding teacher shortages, the Democrat-led Legislature is weighing proposals to recruit and retain teachers with a minimum 7% pay increase for all public school staff, increased minimum teacher salaries at various career stages and spending to pay off teachers' student debts.
WHEN THE SUBSTITUTE TEACHER INFRONT OF YOU FALLS, YOU GRAB THAT CHALK AND KEEP TEACHING!!!
Ope looks like we need to increase military and police budgets to account for added expense.
No we're not raising teacher pay, why do you ask?!?
Edit: all this shit with education is just going to lead to the abolishment of public education. You want your kid educated? Pay for it, dickhead.
Pay for it, dickhead.
It's the American way. Liberals will decide that charter schools are the way forward "for our kids". It's only an ancillary benefit that teachers can be controlled and fired far more easily.
This is really just a long-winded way of admitting that schools are actually state-run daycares, because nowadays both parents have to be employed or else they all starve.
nowadays both parents have to be employed or else they all starve.
It's news to nobody here but It's still sort of amazing to me how the media ignores that.
As a public school teacher: we already knew, fuck this shit
start the countdown to the human interest story about national guardsmen stressed & complaining about getting bullied babysitting middleschoolers
:rat-salute: utterly uncritical support to the students dunking on bootboy substitutes
indoctrinate soldiers to kill foreign children for disobeying simple commands
send same soldiers to interact with the cruelest, disobedient and most annoying children possible
nothing could possibly go wrong
complaining about getting bullied babysitting middleschoolers
Yes I support the troops (the middle schoolers)
thank you for scabbing, troops, very cool
when will they be stationed at walmarts as cashiers
If they get to keep their guns on them, I support the troops doing retail
when will they be stationed at walmarts as cashiers
How about this for a hellworld situation?...
There's a big solar flare and a gigantic amount of electronics get fried all over the world. The US power grid is a joke so it gets fried and a huge portion of the US is without power. Biden says "Hold on, America. We can fix this..." He says the power will be back soon, real soon. But he loses his temper when reporters ask the reasonable question "When?" He'll intimate it'll be weeks. Then his administration will say months. But we'll learn that it'll take years to fix most of the mess because everything was in such a sorry stare to begin with and nearly everywhere is fubar.
Many magic machines are gone and no one will remember how to do anything. Cashiers will have to add up the numbers by hand. And that won't go well. The National Guard will be pressed into service with combat calculators that survived the flare. But - of course - they won't remember how to use a calculator so they'll learn on the job. Also - to verify credit card purchases - they'll have to read a string of numbers into the phone.
Imagine how angry and violent Americans will get it takes them 20 times as long to get their treats. High count mass shootings will be a near daily occurrence. CNN, MSNBC, etc will have a Mass Shooting sidebar with recent stats like they did for covid
"I served my country! I did two tours bringing in shopping carts from the Kroger parking lot and until I see you putting your life on the line out there with my brothers and sisters in arms, you can shut the hell up, kiddo!"
when will they be stationed at walmarts as cashiers
They'll make the lanes run on time
even if it isnt an official strike id say its still scabbing considering the state of teaching in america
Yeah now that you mention it that’s fair. No union’s gonna be welcoming to new employees who aren’t members
One way to describe it is that the teacher shortage is due to providing dangerous and impossible conditions for terrible pay. Bringing in the National Guard is a way to avoid remedying either issue. So a labor issue is being fought against workers by its employer (state gov't) by bringing in a literal reserve army of labor!
I teach, got covid and so did 1/3 of my kids (so far!) and all for less than almost all my friends make
What I like about this solution is that the guardsmen have other jobs. Those workforces are likely also strained for the same reason teachers are. Not only will they contribute to the burnout at that job by shortstaffing it further, but they'll be going from a school full of plague to that normal workplace.
don't worry it's mild tho trust me bro trust me
Education in NM is a disgrace. In the self text I mention that NM is about dead last in education. Also it's an election year and this news looks really bad so the dem controlled legislature is considering giving teachers a raise. I bet they keep considering it until the election and then they decide against it.
I am excited to have 18 year old military dudes teying to teach math to kindergardeners. They wont learn to do math, but they are gonna be the best at capture the flag at recess
Hey, at least the chud prophecy of "the good guy with gun" will come true. Well unless there's an maniac in the rank
"Kevin, I have told you and told you and told you not to—" Kevin throws a paper wad at him again. Is it time? The guardsman thinks about his assault rifle and handguns in his trunk.
History class will be about the time Eminem killed Benzino in 2003.
If a substitute teacher troop teaches CRT to their students, would that mean the US Army was sending troops to fight in the front lines of the Culture War?
Yeah I'm in NM and we are about as bad as it gets for state education stats because there's an incredibly impoverished and forgotten population here that no one cares about or invests in anymore. Not surprised to see this kind of thing.
