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Dr. Bret Weinstein | Rescue the Republic
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Started listening to Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn's "America This Week" podcast & videos about a month ago via RacketNews & Rumble.
Both have long histories of great reporting and authorship, and are clear voices in a sea of propaganda and bullshit.
Both spoke at the conference above, btw.
Not a fan of the shirt.
But still wood.
Education is not a voting issue for a leftard.
The democrats have destroyed our education system. Statistics don't lie. They have also made the cost of that crappy education unsustainable. It is why they never want to talk about it.
#1 in the world in funding per student K-12
#40 in math
really all you need to know.
Any matter that fleeces taxpayers, expands laziness and rewards incompetence is a voting issue for a Leftard.
Amazing how every leftard here on the Tug reeks of incompetence and lack of integrity. Am I sensing a pattern?
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-13/michael-r-bloomberg-students-dismal-test-scores-are-a-bipartisan-failure
Its a bipartisan failure, guys…
Not a failure of the DOE which has been in control of the money and the curriculum for the last 50 years.
If our kids could compete with Asia my guess is that it wouldn’t be a bipartisan success.
The dog ate my homework
Bret of the "the DNC is a existential threat to the US but I'm still not sure if I can vote for Trump" 's? That Bret.
What I don’t get is these teachers who whine about being underpaid impacting education.
I mean, underpaying teachers does limit the pool of college graduates who find teaching a potential career, but most of the dummies teaching now are t suddenly going to teach better with a $25,000 annual raise in salary. Weed out the current batch of mostly bad teachers and then pay more in salary if the goal is to get better educated students.
Teaching is currently the shittiest supposed professional career in the US in most cases. If you can get a gig at Jesuit in Beaverton or in the West Linn or Lake Oswego school district the job might be at least tolerable. In the major city school districts like Portland and Salem even in Tigard there has been an explosion of class room violence. The US teacher unions have supported the total decline in a teacher's ability to provide a disciplined class room. They have supported an explosion of administrative positions that have nothing to do with class room education but sucks dollars away from paying a qualified teacher more money. They supported the closure of school classrooms for up to 18 months. Currently, getting a teaching degree means that the teacher is functionally illiterate in math, science, history and economics and in many cases barely able to read and write. Next, they go get a Master's degree in education which again provides no functional knowledge on how to educate our kids to be a self-sufficient adult.
teachers are underpaid
doesn't Mean the system is underfunded
When they create large numbers of supvisory teacher positions it eats up the budget so overall pay is lower. We never had these in the past. A school had a Principal and a Vice Principal. Now 1 in 3 teachers is also a supervisor.
Good teachers are underpaid. When major city school districts have $25,000 of funding for each FTE kid, there is plenty of money. You are correct that there is no underfunding. Both Oregon and Washington recently had major increases in school funding to fix the supposed underfunding. It's all spent, Oregon school scores for math and reading are down substantially and the teacher unions are once again demanding that the "underfunding" get fixed.
The Reality is that if teaching were a competitive six figure career the vast majority of current teachers would have already been weeded out by people with more talent and ambition.
The current government model thrives on mediocre underpaid individuals who will reliably vote for their management class.
Good teachers are underpaid. The majority are paid just fine.
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Need I go on?