i am speaking from experience working in a large, k-12 [public] environment

Can you be more specific? Do you have a degree in education? What kind of work were you performing? What grade(s)? How long ago? Are you still there?

i am speaking from experience working in a large, k-12 [public] environment and watching brand new teachers discuss their degrees, and their pay.

Brand new teachers start at the bottom of the salary ladder and typically have a Bachelor’s in Education. They then have to do continuing education and frequently end up with their Master’s.

Why are you referring to ‘teachers’ as if to speak about all of them if what you really meant was those who just graduated? Even then, why are you generalizing and dinging all teachers when there also some very brilliant first year teachers and many who are adequate/good, too?

you barely need a degree to be a teacher in the united states

In most cases of actual teachers in the government run, public school setting, who were trained as teachers, they end up having to get a Masters degree and additional continuing education for as long as they remain a teacher. However, they are desperately under-paid and under-supported.

Once you get into private schools, especially those that are run by churches, all bets are off. This is just one of the many reasons that not even a single dollar of taxpayer money should be going to charter/private schools.

You also have stupid places that let anyone with some random skill teach with the belief they have the capacity to be a teacher and that’s just not true. Teaching is actually a very specialized skill that most people simply don’t have. You can be a brilliant mathematician and a horrible teacher. You may be the world’s best welder (with all of the requisite knowledge of metallurgy, engineering, safety, etc.) and be a horrible teacher.

If you’re going to bad-mouth teachers, then please be more specific than just a lazy trope. Another urban legend that needs to go away is the idea that teachers only work 9 months out of the year.

How about nothing? Why do we need to indoctrinate children with any kind of this bullshit?

Is there any such thing as an ethical Republican any longer?

Is there a non-paywalled version anywhere?

I’m starting to question my move to Firefox from Chrome… Firefox is doing some really stupid stuff.

Oh fuck off with this propaganda. This treats all Muslims as if they are fucking idiots who have no idea what is going on.

Shouldn’t they begin by having content with any value?

Our “solution” to gun deaths is to add more guns.

Looking at the other shit they post they just like to stir the pot…

What a stupid fucking meme… she doesn’t lower them for the same reason you don’t, OP.

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I think it’s none of my business…

Wrong. That is NOT how cats operate…

You simply don’t understand cats and their needs. You are also obviously very highly prejudiced and unlikely to hear anything someone like me might say to answer your question.

My cats very rarely range far from my property and far more rarely have caught a bird. They fixed and well-fed. Not all cats are equally ‘bad’.

Perhaps all cats collectively, but not well-fed, cared-for house cats in particular. I’ve always had cats and they only very rarely catch a bird. It does the cause a disservice to be intellectually dishonest.

Humans are an invasive species… maybe we shouldn’t be allowed outside?

Quick! Give us the stupidist fucking take on this that you possibly can!

Today we learned that outdoor birds and cats are extinct because cats killed all the birds and wolves/birds killed all the cats.