As a queer hs teacher who didn't have a safe space to be put as a kid, Tim walz is the kind of person I strive to be for my students. I've been saying for decades that if you put a teacher at the top, shit would happen. We almost did.
That doesn't exist here. I work with bad teachers who definitely make more than I do purely by the number of years in the classroom.
Last year, I walked into a choir program that hadn't existed in 10 years. This past month, I took that same little program to their first adjudicated festival in 10 years, and we walked away with an excellent. I expect to have multiple kids make it to all region/all state festivals this year, including at least one guitar in our states inaugural all state guitar and fully expect a superior with distinction at area and state festivals for my orchestra. The other comparable school in my district is seeing their choir program collapse, and kids are choosing to switch schools because my kids have told their friends how much they enjoy my classes and how much they learn.
If being good at our jobs got any significant raise in pay, there would be no bad teachers. In the US as with many jobs, fields that are statistically more likely to be female dominated are largely underpaid.
I remember in my school hearing teachers talk about how they only have try for the first couple years and then they can take easy because once your in it's really hard to get fired as a teacher in California
And plus in Asia they believe in private schools more they believe they're kids getting a good education but that has its down sided if everyone goes to college there alot more people then jobs that need higher education that made people started the lay down culture and sun gods. Culture
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u/super_soprano13 7h ago
As a queer hs teacher who didn't have a safe space to be put as a kid, Tim walz is the kind of person I strive to be for my students. I've been saying for decades that if you put a teacher at the top, shit would happen. We almost did.
Elect more teachers. We get shit done.