Jordan Patrick

Alabama State Senator thinks raising teacher pay is against the teachings of the Bible (via desertmar)

So we should pay teachers less to make sure only people who really really really want to be teachers become teachers? WHAT THE FUCK. Teaching is one of the hardest jobs out there. Unlike office jobs, you don’t get to sit in front of a computer and tune out when you don’t feel like working. Teaching requires all of your attention, all of the time. Teachers deserve to be compensated fairly for the incredibly difficult job that they do, and to suggest otherwise — particularly to give it some bullshit Biblical explanation — is an affront to the entire profession.

I have no doubt that there are thousands of people in America who would have been great teachers. But given the shitty salary, the dwindling public funding, and this kind of crap from legislators, they wisely went into another profession.

I’d love to see him suggest politicians cut their salary, since legislating and creating laws for other people definitely requires a “calling.”

-Jess

(via stfuconservatives)

Let’s also be starkly realistic & acknowledge that in America we recruit teachers from the bottom 1/3 of college classes. It’s a pink-collar ghetto job for many women who don’t have the confidence or support to pursue more technical and challenging careers. Teaching should be professionalized, paid a competitive salary, given more discretion and support. Like Sam Seaborn said, schools should be palaces, education should be free for all children, and we should be willing to invest at least as much in education as we do in defense. 

(via foulmouthedliberty)

(Source: nom-chompsky, via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)