I shared this because I just have a personal grudge against bad administration with bloated salaries running off good teachers by micromanaging them and by throwing them under the bus when parents complain.

Everyone agrees that what should happen is teachers should get paid more and supported more, and that they should have the classroom supplies they need.

Instead of hiring more teachers to make classes smaller, school districts hire “curriculum specialists” etc and pay huge amounts of money to consulting companies to tell them how to improve student performance. They buy curriculum without consulting the teachers who are going to be using it.

Over and over, teachers are treated like mindless workers and even, evil enemies, instead of well-educated professionals who know how to do their jobs, and could do them if the administration and politicians would get out of their way.

No one goes into teaching expecting to get rich. But by the government’s own measures of poverty, most teachers live below the poverty line. On top of this they are continually vilified by the media and politicians.

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Uh
Rant over, I guess.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk…