Republicans are ruining American education

I think school choice and vouchers are a good idea

Public schooling has been a broken system for years.

 

none of those are really bad numbers. no, teachers aren't out there getting rich. but everyone likes to run around saying how teachers are one of the lowest paid professions; well they're doing better than a majority of people i know.

 

Just for comparison, a lot of police department around my area are paying at best $38,000 when ypu first start off.

 

Because it forces public schools to compete in a market for more funding, and a higher student body count. Raising the quality of education and schooling

I’ve attended both public, and religion-affiliated private schools. The quality of education at the private schools win hands down. The phobia of the possibility that the students from private schools are going to graduate into becoming religious zealots, is just as crazy as the notion that college is guaranteed to turn every graduate into a Democrat .

Oh yeah, and the catholic high school I went to taught evolution too.

 

I doubt the evolution was taught to scientific standards. But maybe I am wrong there are a few progressive schools that realize the bible and science are two different concepts that don't have to exclude each other.

One of my main points is that the free market does not solve everything. You see that now, if private school truly worked it would be affordable and effective. Many of neither. They are for well off people's children to learn a half truth. Most of them are religious based. You go because you don't want the kid learning about sex education or evolution. Or you are willing to pay the premium because you are rich enough to escape the poor funding of public schools. So unless you come from money you have no chance. Much like most things in our economy. It's not how hard you work but how much money your family has that is the #1 factor in success. "Small loans of a million dollars" ring a bell?

Why does the inner city not have affordable private schools? The market is there and the current schools do not work. Yet no businessman uses the free market to make it affordable. It's because there is no money in the poor so why invest in them?

 

the first two graphs do prove that there are some jobs that pay more than teaching. which was never disputed by anyone, ever in the history of the world. and for the most part, i don't have a problem with anything i see there. yes, teaching is an important and demanding job. but all those healthcare jobs are just as important, and generally even more demanding. i'm also perfectly fine paying good money to the people who are making sure the bridges i'm driving over don't collapse, or the elevator i'm on doesn't drop me 50 stories. lawyers are probably overpaid, but the ones making a lot of money also work crazy amounts of hours to earn it. and i since it doesn't specify that those are median salaries, i'm guessing they took the mean average which will probably skew the lawyer salary upward based on a few of those big case guys that make millions. yes, finance people make too much money compared to the rest of us, but that's really not the point.

also, all i said was that teachers are doing better than a majority of people i know. well, i don't know that many elevator installers or civil engineers. most of those jobs aren't that common. the real people i know mostly don't make anywhere near any of those numbers.

the last graph is also likely misleading. again, it doesn't specify what exactly it is measuring, so i have to assume it's using a mean average, which means that the few people who are being ridiculously overpaid are lumped in with the non-teachers, skewing their average upward.

 

Never said it was

 

Team work
I suppose is the end state

 

You're comparing teachers to doctors and engineers. At the same time police officers, who risk their lives everyday and every 60 hours an officer is killed on duty, only get paid around $43,000

Police Officer Salary

Where's the outrage for their pay to be higher?

 

After I graduated high school and started meeting people from all over the place and comparing notes, I realized that my red state curriculum either taught certain subjects/material later than other states or didnt teach them at all

So i'm personally in favor of a federally mandated curriculum with more unity across the board. It would make it easier for students who have to move from state to state as well.

By that same token I dont really like the practice of how schools are currently funded by district with poorer districts getting the short end of the stick. I would like to see funding more evenly distributed

Of course I know these are basically pipe dreams because states rights and blah blah blah but I do think this would level the playing field a great deal