Maybe if you didn’t cut their budgets year in and year out, and realised their importance we wouldn’t be here.

Even now, the current proposal is to ONLY increase salary from 40k to an AMAZING 45k?

… are you fucking kidding me? Why would someone get a college degree to work in an extremely high stress line of work that likely will heavily affect their mental health even beyond their employment only to then deal with constant budget cuts left and right.

Everybody loves parading about how they care about the kids until it comes to actually caring about the kids.