SevenSparrowsSing t1_j8awn81 wrote on February 12, 2023 at 11:31 PM

Budget keeps getting cut with programs we need related to social/emotional health, and wages are not worth it for teachers to endure the asylum like classrooms that exist now. Parents want to take no accountability for their violent kids so teachers just have to « deal with it ».

thisoneisnotasbad t1_j8b7a4g wrote on February 13, 2023 at 12:50 AM

My mother was a public school teacher, mine for many years. She always ended up spending her own money on class supplies. There is a lack of money and eventually they told her to stop writing her own curriculum and teach what was in the packet. That and no child left behind made her decide she had enough teaching.

lantonas t1_j8bm4gw wrote on February 13, 2023 at 2:38 AM

> Budget keeps getting cut

lol, when has a school budget even been cut in this state?

Edit: Literally every school budget I look up is up at least 20% from 2019. And that doesn't include the several million that every district received in COVID funds

00_Kamaji_00 t1_j8cvgg7 wrote on February 13, 2023 at 10:55 AM

If you’ve heard of inflation you know that the same thing costs MORE year after year. Additionally, staffing increases are standard when you have people remain longer than 1 year (raises). An increased budget absolutely does not mean that schools can get additional staff or services.

If the increases aren’t sufficient (which in most districts they haven’t been aside from getting an influx of covid money), then teacher positions get cut, social workers get cut, etc. Our schools are now operating as mental health triage on a daily basis, and families are in crisis (housing, jobs, home violence, food, etc) and there aren’t caseworkers or therapists to help more than 10% of those needing help. It’s dire.

lantonas t1_j8dqmta wrote on February 13, 2023 at 3:41 PM

It's too bad that teachers unions advocated and demanded policies that caused these issues.

Don't worry, kids are resilient.

00_Kamaji_00 t1_j8drtfu wrote on February 13, 2023 at 3:49 PM

Please enlighten me. What language in teachers contracts do you feel caused all these issues?

lantonas t1_j8duam7 wrote on February 13, 2023 at 4:06 PM

Were you alive during the 2020-2021 school year?

00_Kamaji_00 t1_j8f3att wrote on February 13, 2023 at 9:05 PM

You mean when teachers were forced to work in enclosed spaces with children who are notorious for contracting and spreading illness while a lethal pandemic raged on? Why yes I was. Thank you for asking.