Local teachers discourage teaching careers

[Smarmie Doofus]

6. You get what you pay for.

We came to a consensus.... as a society.... during the Bush/Obama era, that we were going to let public ed be driven by 'market forces'.

i.e. Cheap-labor capitalism: tenure, unions, decent pay, teachers who know what they're doing : all OUT.

Data, tech, all variety of gimmicky $$-making "innovations", and low-cost labor: IN.

Result:

>>>Last week on the same day a math teacher started slapping a kid in the head and ridiculing him and another teacher in the same district body slammed a kid into the lockers send him to the ER with a bruised sternum. >>>

But let's not pretend that we haven't produced the circumstances that we *deliberately* set out to produce.

This IS what we wanted.