In Birmingham, the school district is struggling to fill around 50 teaching spots, including 15 in special education, despite $10,000 signing bonuses for special ed teachers. Jenikka Oglesby, a human resources officer for the district, says the problem owes in part to low salaries in the South that don’t always offset a lower cost of living.
Hmm :centrist: socdem idea, maybe just pay the teachers more using the :brrrrrrrrrrrr:
Damn, it's almost like they are deliberately trying to destroy public education... :thinkin-lenin:
Unfortunately teaching kids for free doesn’t buy people groceries
You would need some kind of collective action. The SPD used to organize schools for uneducated adults and their kids and give an explicitly socialist education, I wonder if you could replicate that model as some kind of "homeschool collective" similar to what some evangelicals do where parents take turns educating all of the kids in the group. With the right org leading it it could very quickly spin up into a whole movement, educating parents in socialist politics and kids in everything better than the public schools manage to do.
I think the CPC did something similar during the Chinese Civil War, as a way to ensure goodwill among the population they relied so much on.
Write a bill which would have the federal government cut a $1500 check every month to everyone with a teaching license and tell Congress it's a means tested ubi bill
Hire a think tank to throw enough buzzwords at them, and you could probably get some actually good policies if you phrase it as a really stupid one
get some actually good policies if you phrase it as a really stupid one
that's just wild enough to work. Introducing the 9/11 Remembrance Bring Our Boys Home Bill (it closes every foreign military base).
I've spent enough time with DC and Ottawa shithead representatives and lanyards alike to know that the easiest way to get them on board with an idea is to phrase it like it's a combination of two things they like.
If they pay teachers more how they will privatize education further to get it to just 100 kids in a classroom doing their computer courses run for profit being supervised by a Veteran making $15/hr?
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... wait, what reason did everybody hear? All I know is teachers are paid like shit, and that a camel's back can only take so much straw.
