Public School Teachers: The Stupidest
Creatures on the Planet
American Thinker,
by
John Conlin
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
3/25/2025 10:09:56 AM
Quite the statement, eh? Let me explain. I’m well into my 60s and for my entire adult life I’ve heard that public school teachers are underpaid. It has been repeated as a mantra for decades.
Ignoring for a moment whether it is true or not -- and the answer to that is generally, it depends -- let’s accept the mantra and analyze why public-school teachers are still underpaid after all these years.
It’s not spending. As most voters know, it seems that every stinking year there is some ballot initiative or measure or legislative move to increase spending for our woefully underfunded public-school systems. It never seems to end.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Older Lady 3/25/2025 10:34:09 AM (No. 1920988)
Amen. But you aren't going to get rid of teachers' unions. They wield so much power and Democrats are going to make sure they don't go away. So many teachers are liberals that maybe they don't mind having their money going to support the most liberal, woke causes even if it means children are getting a sub-par education. I am glad I don't have any children in public school or college now getting brainwashed by liberal teachers.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
cor-vet 3/25/2025 10:45:45 AM (No. 1920992)
We have an amendment coming up here in Louisiana in about a week, w/a permanent raise for teachers. This on top of a recent tax increase to provide teacher raises in our parish just last year. It never ends. I don't think eliminating the DoE and giving control to the states is going to make much difference, as it appears the never enough attitude is rampant at the state and local level. It's always for the poor teachers or the children, never any other discipline in the public sector.
At least most of the graduating seniors can read at an 8th grade level and not all of them need remedial courses to get into the state university, so parents are happy with this.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
stablemoney 3/25/2025 10:50:28 AM (No. 1920993)
Teacher's are financial morons. They cannot get that there is no competition for their services with state run education, no school choice. Their pensions are determined and ran by state run entities, and die with them, not included in their estates. Teachers are not hired or retained on merit. A teacher is just a cog, ranked by years of service, no difference, and no difference in pay for productive work. A teacher has to get the state legislature that meets every 2 years to agree to raise their pay. It is socialism with all the detriments --- but teachers, smart in some ways, cannot fathom the cause of all their troubles.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Hazymac 3/25/2025 10:53:42 AM (No. 1920994)
Re #1: Whatever serves no good purpose has to go. Teachers' unions serve no purpose that helps education, only themselves, and Democrats. FDR knew they didn't belong. JFK started the process that unionized much of the federal government. The Nation can't afford to micturatre away our wealth and out children's futures. Government unions must go because they never belonged in government. Bust 'em all.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
nwcudagal 3/25/2025 10:55:27 AM (No. 1920995)
If I had it to do over, I would never let my child go to a public school. We need school vouchers NOW!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 3/25/2025 10:59:42 AM (No. 1920998)
If you only work 8 months a year you should earn 3/4 as much as those that work 12 months. Do away with summer, spring and winter breaks.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
crashnburn 3/25/2025 11:10:08 AM (No. 1921006)
My mother taught school for many years. I’m not sure if she was in a union. She would run rings around today’s teachers. I know one who is a second grade teacher. She needed a calculator to discover that 52 is divisible by 13 a week ago. She didn’t even know there are13 cards in each suit of cards.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 3/25/2025 11:11:43 AM (No. 1921009)
It’s not a bad gig. Average income 60k. Average benes 30 k (round numbers). Summers off. Retire after 30 years. Yea..they have to take courses. So did I, in private industry, on my own dime.
Looking at a national average of 16 students per teach at $17 k per student, each teach provides the school district $272k income and receives $90k income and benes from that, or about 1/3. That is not unusual for knowledge based businesses with full time employees.
But admin costs? In Cleveland in the 90’s, the public schools had 157 admins above principal. The catholic schools, about the same number as public schools, had only 3! Admin is ripe for cost cutting,.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Venturer 3/25/2025 12:28:44 PM (No. 1921063)
NOBODY ever ran for office without promising to send more money to the schools.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mc squared 3/25/2025 12:32:32 PM (No. 1921068)
WhereI live the sales tax increased 1/2 or 1% every year or so. Always for The Children.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LadyHen 3/25/2025 1:15:57 PM (No. 1921083)
They are almost to a woman college educated females... and we have seen how they vote and how absolutely clueless they are. They are almost all feminists, entitled, woke, and mentally ill/medicated.
Why are public sector unions even legal? How can you collectively bargain with voters of whom you are one? It is a giant scam that funnels huge amounts of movie to unelected bureaucrats and expands the administration class all while test scores and graduation rates (even with dumbed down standards) plummet. And the "you go gurl!" teachers, the dumb donkeys that they are, just nod and bray their affirmation in unison.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 3/25/2025 1:22:06 PM (No. 1921085)
Teachers should be paid for the product that they turn out. From what I see they are overpaid. Teacher unions don't care about the children, they only want more dues.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
chumley 3/25/2025 2:00:06 PM (No. 1921107)
Just like with any other job, you get dumb ones. We came back from living in Europe for a couple years and the parents put me in 3rd grade at a public school. I brought some German one pfennig coins for the kids to look at and the teacher asked how much they were worth. I told her about 1/4 cent. She got all bent out of shape and said it was ridiculous, as nothing is worth less than a penny.
And they vote and they reproduce.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
red1066 3/25/2025 2:12:46 PM (No. 1921110)
I'm not sure what other states pay their public school teachers, but here in Maryland, teachers are paid fairly well. Everyone doing a job thinks they need to be paid more money, and teachers are no different. However, my wife taught for forty years, and each year the amount of work required by teachers increased and the requirements to do the job increased as well. The requirements however, had nothing to do with the subject matter she was teaching, but was DEI related. Many teachers would love to be able to teach and help the kids learn, but they just don't have the time. From putting mentally handicapped children into the standard classroom, to dealing with illegals who don't speak English, plus time spent dealing with curriculum content, a teacher spends more time doing paperwork than teaching.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 3/25/2025 3:36:52 PM (No. 1921140)
From a former teacher: Education begins in the home. More than ANY other factor, parental support and encouragement determines student success. Another determinate factor is school size. Schools with more than about 600 students become more about student management for the administrators than student education.
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