Red-state Republicans erupt over CNBC's worst-states ranking
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"Airdrop this into every failing blue state."
  • fartographer@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I have a comment about it somewhere in the Lemmies, but my family is from Texas, and my sister lived in Connecticut for a few years. Her children were still quite young when they all moved back to Texas, but there was still a noticeable drop in their development.

    My sister did a pretty good job picking up the slack at home, but that’s a burdensome undertaking for someone with fewer resources. Working in public education myself, I see why we’re failing, and it’s really sad. It’s hard to create highly impactful lessons when your concerns are the students’ safety and security at home, your own job security if you stray at all from approved materials, and showing care and respect for children in a way that doesn’t get you fired for being “woke.”

    • nickiwest@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 days ago

      Hey, fellow educator, I see you. I know that you and everyone in your school are doing your best to work within the constraints that have been dictated by your state legislature. Keep doing what you can to support your students, and don’t forget to take care of yourself in the process.

      • fartographer@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 days ago

        Thank you, but this is praise I do not deserve! I’ve tried my hand at teaching, but now I support the teachers and schools so that they can take care of the kids. I’ll help the kids where I can, but I’ve discovered that teachers are dangerously disturbed individuals. How else could they do what they do, put up with what they put up with, work so many hours, all for so little pay?

        Teachers are some of the greatest people I know, but I treat all of them like unexploded ordinances. Like I tell all my coworkers, “When I’m superintendent, no campus administrator will make less than 6 figures, and new teacher pay will begin at $90K. I want teachers who fight for their opportunities, not for their meals.”

        • nickiwest@lemmy.world
          2·
          6 days ago

          Well, let me know when that happens. It sounds like the kind of district management I could really get behind.

      • fartographer@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 days ago

        I don’t know either. I work on the technical side. I tried my hand at teaching and found children to be far too stressful for me on a daily basis. So, I do whatever I can to support the teachers, schools, and district.