I posted on Facebook about hurricane Helene hitting Asheville North Carolina and how climate change resulted in one of the most severe storms and disasters we have ever seen in American history. This public school teacher in Florida proceeded to message me privately to tell me that climate change is fake, and how I need to get real because climate change supposedly had nothing to do with Western North Carolina looking like the setting for the next season of Fallout TV series. There’s no other way to put it, honestly. I have seen so many pictures and videos of the damage, it is simply astonishing. I have never seen something so gruesome and horrific in my whole life…

It’s honestly crazy that there are teachers, who are responsible for educating other people, and this is the kind of stuff that they are telling people.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    24 days ago

    lets not forget that one of the methods of eroding public education is by reducing teacher education requirements.

    they can pay less educated people less, and they do. you barely need a degree to be a teacher in the united states, and it pays so little it would be funny if it wasnt so incredibly sad.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      24 days ago

      Starve the Beast. The conservatives use it for everything. Run on government not working, and then working to dismantle government to prove it.

      • WaxedWookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        24 days ago

        The important follow-up is to rinse/repeat. This doesn’t stop until the wealth redistribution does, and we regress to corporate town serfdom.

        The people that vote for this want their elected government to be so small they’ll be ruled by corporate overlords solely interested in extracting their wealth.

    • echo@lemmings.worldEnglish
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      24 days ago

      you barely need a degree to be a teacher in the united states

      In most cases of actual teachers in the government run, public school setting, who were trained as teachers, they end up having to get a Masters degree and additional continuing education for as long as they remain a teacher. However, they are desperately under-paid and under-supported.

      Once you get into private schools, especially those that are run by churches, all bets are off. This is just one of the many reasons that not even a single dollar of taxpayer money should be going to charter/private schools.

      You also have stupid places that let anyone with some random skill teach with the belief they have the capacity to be a teacher and that’s just not true. Teaching is actually a very specialized skill that most people simply don’t have. You can be a brilliant mathematician and a horrible teacher. You may be the world’s best welder (with all of the requisite knowledge of metallurgy, engineering, safety, etc.) and be a horrible teacher.

      If you’re going to bad-mouth teachers, then please be more specific than just a lazy trope. Another urban legend that needs to go away is the idea that teachers only work 9 months out of the year.

      • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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        24 days ago

        i am speaking from experience working in a large, k-12 [public] environment and watching brand new teachers discuss their degrees, and their pay.

        In most cases of actual teachers in the government run, public school setting, who were trained as teachers, they end up having to get a Masters degree and additional continuing education for as long as they remain a teacher.

        incredibly community specific, and rules are often completely bent or ignored

        Another urban legend that needs to go away is the idea that teachers only work 9 months out of the year.

        i dont know anyone who believes this old nonsense.