I dont have twitter, how do community notes work as apposed to regular comments?
Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. Conservatives have been society's liars throughout all of human civilization. Nothing good in the history of mankind has ever come from conservatism. Nothing at all.
$64K isn't really much these days.
And that's just average. Chances are teachers are making anywhere between 40-100K in GA with the majority probably below 64
My first thought was: that's it? Really that little?
That's the reality of public school teacher pay all over the country.
The national average is under $70k
$64k is a great salary in my area of PA. I'm not familiar with GA but I imagine it's the same. To put this into comparison, the average household income in GA is $75k and most households are two earners, so yeah, seems pretty good.
It's double what I make.
Agreed, but I'd love to be making that as a professor here in NJ...
I remember when teachers were complaining about making 24k a year in the last decade. (I'm just saying, not being contrarian)
It is in Georgia.
I would probably slap your dad around for $64k
After the housing bubble burst in late 2008, Democrats approved a stimulus package that Obama signed that sent millions of dollars to the nation's schools. Then-governor of Texas Rick Perry used those funds to balance his shitty budget. None of it went to schools. The school I was teaching at lost it's theater arts program, they had to reduce staff by attrition, the district rebalanced staff levels in a Last In First Out manner, we got no cost of living pay increase or step pay increase (same exact pay as the prior year), and class sizes skyrocketed. I didn't have a middle school math class with fewer than 31 students that year.
The following year, another stimulus package was passed for education. There was language in this bill that specifically said that it MUST be used for education purposes and that the money would be recouped from any state that doesn't use it toward that end. Then-AG Greg Abbott went to court to fight for Rick Perry's right to use the money however he wanted.
And finally, the Texas lottery was sold to Texans as a way to provide extra funds to schools. However, that's not what happens. Instead of funds from the lottery supplementing education, it supplants the funds. It would be like if your dad gave you $100 every year for your birthday, but then one year your grandma gave your dad $20 to give to you, and so your dad just gave you $100 and pocketed the $20.
Texas Republicans don't give a single solitary fuck about public education. I'd rail on their push for the voucher system, but I finally left that festering shithole and can't be arsed to give a fuck about it any more.
Didn't they realize that there's million of people willing to fact check every lies they said?
"Facts"?? HAHAhahahahahaha
Hey! Welcome to 1950, Dick Cavett! Seriously though, facts Do Not Matter, as has been proven in high relief for just about a decade now.
Yes, but they gaslit their base into thinking fact-checking is propaganda
But there are even more who don't fact check.
Republicans are KNOWN to Do Their Own Research so they OBVIOUSLY would know he's Lying and wouldn't take His words at Face Value because he has an R by his Name!
But doesn’t the R indicate the post needs to be further Researched?
Also what’s the political calculus for Kemp? Maga hates him, because he has issues with Trump, on account of not stealing the election. Here he gets to signal his bipartisanship by saying he worked with Biden to raise the wage of teachers. Shouldn’t that be the savvier move in a purple state?
Kinda shocked that the Human Personification of a Wet Dog Turd let that note go through.
Well, it's not like he can take credit together with Biden.
No, he really can’t because he directly fought against the people that made this happen.
