Why would we pay the people who spend arguably the most time imprinting good values on our children? Why, that sounds like SOCIALISM!!! /s

I had good teachers and shitty teachers. Twenty years later, I got in touch with my junior high school to find out if a teacher was still there (she was). The office agreed to forward an email to her if I sent it to the school’s public address. I wrote her pretty much a love letter (not really) about how much she influenced me by taking an interest in my creative writing and how much it meant to me that she really cared. I never heard back about it. Maybe she didn’t remember me (it’d been a long time). But it was important to me that she know so I told her.

It’s a sign of our collective depravity that we don’t respect educators more.

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There isn’t any action on the part of the Federal Government or most state governments that suggests the majority of people in power acknowledge this as a problem. Remember, in 2/3 of the US states it’s still legal to pay someone $7 an hour.

The only way this changes is if teachers nationwide conduct a general strike and force parents to have to figure it out and schools to close. Barring that, it’s never changing. The people with the power to change it simply do not care.

Can’t wait for that teacher to be like kids you better go to school and work hard and take on a lot of student loans and get a master’s degree so that one day you too can sleep in a 2007 Kia forte in a different place every night so that the cops don’t catch on to what’s going on and arrest you.