Because the right HATES teachers unions and any public worker. Teachers are an easy mark because parents are panicky and reactionary about their kids. Makes it easy to rile them up and manipulate them to their ends. The strong teachers union is something the right despises.
Oklahoma is also doing that. My son who is a Sophomore has a teacher that barely 20, uncertified and dumb as rocks. Our kids stuck in public schools are fucked when it comes to education. We have to teach them ourselves.
It’s what they want. They want a two-tiered education system. They want poor people to be poorly educated and well off people to be well educated so that power remains with “the right” people. That and all education and basically any service to be privatized.
I have found too as a teacher that there are a lot of people who straight up hate teachers specifically. Culturally we pay a lot of lip service to teaching being a respected profession, but we all know how hollow that is.
I get it. Schools are anxiety-factories. Your weaknesses are often put on display and not every student/teacher interaction is supportive.
Now there is this belligerent core of folks who celebrate their ignorance and I see that as a maladaptive coping mechanism to that anxiety that comes from confronting (or being confronted by) one’s own ignorance.
The other side of that is that there are also a lot of (generously) mediocre teachers who have simply continued to stay and “teach” regardless of how many years ago they mentally checked out. They’re toxic, and sour, and that comes through in their lessons, which definitely impacts students who actually want to learn, and who are relying on their teachers to provide the foundational education that’s expected to ensure they have a path to prosperity. Which seems like a steadily dismantled pipedream, for kids who have any awareness of the current state of the world.
Because the right HATES teachers unions and any public worker. Teachers are an easy mark because parents are panicky and reactionary about their kids. Makes it easy to rile them up and manipulate them to their ends. The strong teachers union is something the right despises.
Oklahoma is also doing that. My son who is a Sophomore has a teacher that barely 20, uncertified and dumb as rocks. Our kids stuck in public schools are fucked when it comes to education. We have to teach them ourselves.
It’s what they want. They want a two-tiered education system. They want poor people to be poorly educated and well off people to be well educated so that power remains with “the right” people. That and all education and basically any service to be privatized.
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I have found too as a teacher that there are a lot of people who straight up hate teachers specifically. Culturally we pay a lot of lip service to teaching being a respected profession, but we all know how hollow that is.
I get it. Schools are anxiety-factories. Your weaknesses are often put on display and not every student/teacher interaction is supportive.
Now there is this belligerent core of folks who celebrate their ignorance and I see that as a maladaptive coping mechanism to that anxiety that comes from confronting (or being confronted by) one’s own ignorance.
The other side of that is that there are also a lot of (generously) mediocre teachers who have simply continued to stay and “teach” regardless of how many years ago they mentally checked out. They’re toxic, and sour, and that comes through in their lessons, which definitely impacts students who actually want to learn, and who are relying on their teachers to provide the foundational education that’s expected to ensure they have a path to prosperity. Which seems like a steadily dismantled pipedream, for kids who have any awareness of the current state of the world.
The TX Teacher’s Union is a joke anyway. If they strike they lose their licenses.