My wife is a STEM director here in TX. She can't get equipment to teach science/technology properly, but her district is building a brand new multi million dollar stadium as we speak. Red states don't want to educate, just distract and indoctrinate with their Christian bullshit.
Probably can't get funding because teachers make 100k+ year for 8 months work and admins make double that for even less work.
$100k a year?!?! ??? teachers make nowhere close to that! Plus they work constantly throughout the summer preparing for the next school year. You obviously know nothing about education.
Football is more important in Texas than anything else tied to the education system. I don't know any public schools that indoctrinate with "Christian bullshit" as you call it. My son went to middle and high school in Hays county and that high school is plastered with rainbow flags and other lefty propaganda decor and is all about indoctrination into that pride bullshit, not anything even remotely resembling "christian". You must live out in BF Egypt or something.
Maybe not where you live. They start in the 80s here and admin staff is up around 180-ish. I agree with most of the rest of what you said except if you think blue states are better you’re on some serious drugs. And none of them are indoctrinating kids to be Christian.
I think teaching pays a lot less in the deep south. If you want to make real money down here in the education system you become a football coach.
I recently started watching Football documentaries on Netflex, that's how boring TV has become. I'm almost done with TV. As far as watching a live game? Not a chance. 10 minutes of football and 1.5 hours of commercials. I don't know how mindless idiots put themselves through that misery. I do like watching it, but the whole mentality behind it is absurd.
I'd rather dig ditches than watch TV. At least when I'm done I have three things; a ditch, extra dirt, and a feeling of accomplishment and time well spent.
I used basic alphabet and math flash cards with my son when he was young. He was reading at high school level in 4th grade, which basically tells me that most high schoolers are reading at the 4th grade level. More time well spent in a classroom.
Do you know that teachers salaries are publicly available?
That popular tv minister (Joel…somebody?) and his congregation of thousands just boggles my mind. What could be more impersonal than sitting in the midst of that?
Your pops was a wise man. The best teachers I ever had basically had the same attitude. They would just tell me to leave the class instead of running me down to the office, getting me suspended (which was what I wanted anyways). Those types of teachers are few and far between. Most of them are completely inept when it comes to dealing with kids who really just don't want to be there. Strangely those classes were where I generally did better because the teacher wasn't an idiot or a prick, just chill.
Both Oklahoma and Louisiana passed laws requiring the ten commandments to be displayed in every classroom. It will get overturned, but there's your indoctrination right there.
