public school budgets can't be bloated, only misappropriated.
Which usually happens under dipshit republican school boards.
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Fuck the NYP, but sadly both can be true.
Look at the University of California. Paying slave’s wages to faculty in spite of ever-increasing tuitions that only feed a giant tumor called “admin.”
there's a reason Wikipedia only trusts NYP for stuff like pop culture and not politics
"this man is investing in making kids smarter rather than making my stock portfolio increase by an additional 0.0001% and this makes him an existential threat to society"
-NY Post, translated from news editese
Won't someone unthink of the kids!?
You don't get it! Everything Mandamni does is bad because the uhmmmm, the uhhhhh
Scary commie muslim
"If he was a good person God would have made him white"
They won't say that out loud, but this is what they really think, deep inside of the shriveled cockles of their black hearts
Funding schools framed as corruption.
Welcome to neoliberalism.
What do you think neoliberalism is?
Except the stuff about aliens and Elvis
Those greedy teachers wanting to eat three meals a day! The gall of these people!
There's far more than enough money to go around, it is that most spending is inefficient. Lunches should be free and healthy, books should be free unless it's intentionally damaged, teachers should be paid well (60k minimum) and management should take a pay cut.
There are some issues around corruption and school management. Schools near me requested substantial funding to replace aging AC units. The very next year after they got it, a number of the AC units failed, and they couldn't replace them. An audit showed that the entire funding for the AC replacement was divided among the top administrators and paid as a bonus.
That said, the way to stop that from happening isn't to defund public schools and just repeat the same problem with private schools. You put in some oversight. You make them provide reports for the funding, spot-check, and trust with verification.
Pushing kids into private schools by defunding will make education (and safety) impossible to monitor.
And they all got prison sentences, right? Right? Of course they didn't...
60k was pre 2020 rate, they should be paid 100k+ for how much training and bullshit they have to go through.
150k in like NY, SD, LA, SF. Maybe closer to 60k in Beckley WV. Cost of living and taxes aren't the same everywhere.
Arguably, more rural schools or those in lower income areas should be paying proportionally better for teachers, to attract talent that would otherwise have no interest in being in that area. Those schools tend to be where students and their families have little or no say about what districts they are in, as they use regional magnet schools that cater to multiple small towns. They’d have to completely upend everything and move a substantial distance to have options urban folks take largely for granted. My town has two public and three private school systems, for example, and its only moderately urban. Where I grew up, one school district serviced 1/4 of the county.
Currently the rural districts pay nearly nothing and its lower than other places which also pay nearly nothing, so they get the worst of the worst educators who can’t find better and it keeps everyone’s wages depressed generationally.
But social mobility is a dream of that past that’s long since dead and buried anyway.
Beckley deserves so much more than to be a tourist trap where people get told lies about the union
Lol I literally just picked it off the map. I really wasn't expecting anyone in this thread to know that location intimately.
it's just down the road from me. it's a convergence point between a bunch of mining towns so it's a bit of a significant labor organization point in central Appalachia. it's also where Mother Jones founded the UMWA. also prior to European colonization it access between the Allegheny highlands and the great valley made it an ideal trading hub thanks to the New River, so it holds significance to indigenous rights organizers in Appalachia as well. the fact that the median income is $19k/yr is very much a policy choice of enforcing poverty
60K minimum indeed is a minimum these days
Teachers should be paid more than, say, marketing people at a blockchain AI startup. Teachers add value to the world.
It's a tabloid. Nothing more.
Unfortunately, modern Americans are too stupid to know the difference between tabloids and actual news.
News? Like, from Facebook?
Y'all may not like it, but this is actually smart coverage for the NY Post.
I mean, if we properly educate children then who is going to read the NY Post once the boomers die? Education is a direct threat to the future of their company.
How will we pay for all the bombs we need if all those stupid schools use up all the money?!
Historical note-
Up until December 1976, the Post was a center Left newspaper. It was quieter than the Daily News and less pretentious than the Times. Oscar Madison was a sports writer for The Post.
What brought about the change?
Purchased by Australian Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News.
Wow i didn't realize it was that long ago.
It's up there with the Washington Times, which is owned by a korean anti-communist cult (the moonies) that's full of sex crimes.
... that's the Washington Times, not to be confused with the Washington Post (a far more legitimate news outlet).
Except that the Washington Post is now owned by Bezos, and had been pretty shit on these sorts of things as well ever since.
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The Washington Post, owened by Jeff Bezos?
Someone was asking about how they were going to spin this, were they getting ideas?
I do think that relying on government programs instead of voluntary associations will increase poverty over time. Going further into debt, or needing to borrow from the state budget just to stay afloat a little longer, is like taking out one credit card to pay off another. I think that's a bad idea.
So, to me, choosing not to step up and help solve a problem yourself (for example, through voluntary associations), while instead asking the government to use force to solve it on your behalf (by voting for government programs funded through taxation), is both a bad idea and immoral.
P.S. I know this is not a very Lemmy-friendly opinion, I know you guys tend to love democratic socialism. I think you're well-intentioned people, but you would cause poverty and stagnation if you got your way, though. Ideally, you wouldn't rage at me for thinking differently from you. (Take note that I hold no political power & admit I very well could be wrong, or propagandized, or whatever.)
I appreciate your point of view and, sure, in a different system relying on "voluntary work" would be the best option, self reliant, not dependant on market demand and government issues. Sadly we do not live in a system that allows for any real amount of free time, people that have extra work energy are few and far between, not because they are a bunch of money hogging ghouls but because the average person struggles to pay for his housing, his food, his clothing etc.
I’m under the assumption that the cost of living would decrease if there were a denationalization of money, or at least an asset-backed currency. If I’m wrong about that, then I’m probably wrong about much of my other ideological beliefs. I’m also assuming that a high cost of living, and secularism (which again I know isn’t a popular opinion on Lemmy, since you all tend to love atheism), are barriers to participation in voluntary associations. However, y'all could probably admit that churches make it easy to volunteer. Reliance on government programs also has a crowding-out effect on voluntary associations, which I would equate to fixating on the Eye of Sauron, or on evil itself, instead of trying to work within the realm of the good. Politics is a realm of toxicity that I think we should minimize, & voluntary associations are where we can do the most good & find the most agreement.
P.S. I'm a Christian, but I don't claim to speak for my religion since I'm a stupid, flawed human with biases, deficiencies, & so on, like we all are.
Which societies with low rates of poverty that rely on voluntary associations are you thinking of as examples?
What's top of mind is Alexis de Tocqueville's comparisons between the USA and France mentioned in Democracy in America. So I suppose a decent example, with caveats I'd probably have to mention if you were in a super debate-ty mood, would be an older version of the USA, prior to the Federal Reserve. The book is in the public domain btw - https://librivox.org/democracy-in-america-vol-i-by-alexis-de-tocqueville/
The thing is more New Yorkers who have some sway on any side of this issue read the NY Post more than they do Lemmy. They read it more than any other thing other than maybe The Facepals or Instaslap or whatever the kids are into these days.
So - Yes, total garbage, ridiculously apparent propaganda, and also more effective and real-world than what we have. (not as effective as actually being the Mayor though, so good on him)
The only solution is to print out the Lemmy frontpage and put it at the entrance of every subway.
That’s a LOT of Linux and furry content
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