I am 24 year HS Math teacher who is considered a very good teacher. I work in a good school south of San Francisco.

Culling the administrators works when you have a top heavy bureaucracy, like in large urban districts. But for smaller districts, it might have a negative effect because the reality is that there is not a lot of upper level clutter for schools with limited budgets. So I would be careful with that. Schools need the hierarchy in some shape or form.

The wealthy could care less about the education of the lower classes. Hence, class size increases, and it is so hard to attract excellent teachers in poor districts because of the vast disparities in pay.

I do agree with getting rid of all the damn hoops. Our system basically expects new teachers to be financially independent for a few years. And none of that preparation guarantees that you will be able to handle the enormous stress and work-load year-to-year. Teaching 5 times 30 students per year is insane. Dealing with irrational parents, and various ed code legal regulations adding more time and aggravation. Having to leave one class to go sit in a 504 accommodation meeting for 20 minutes means 1 of my 3 freshmen classes loses instruction.

I work 60 or more hours a week for 36 weeks. 60 times 36 is 2,160 hours. Compare that to a worker who does 40 hours a week for 50 weeks (14 days vacation and holidays). 40 times 50 is 2000. Teachers work at least 160 hours more per year, or 4 weeks more -- all crammed into a 36 week period. Imagine working every single day for 18 weeks, having a christmas break, and then working every single day for another 18 weeks. Add the mental stress. This is why not many people last in the public school teaching career. It's not as simple as what y'all were saying.

Some people just don't have the personality traits necessary in order to survive. Hence, half of the new teachers leave after 3 years, even after 2 years of training. I was thrown right into the fire, getting an emergency credential and working after school to get my credential over 7 years.

I agree with standardized testing. School districts should use their own assessments, guided by some sort of state-wide regulations to insure against impropriety. Assessments should also not be seen as a measure of success or failure, but rather as a gauge of where the students in the district are, and as a means of making good decisions towards addressing the attempts to improve the needs of the students.

The idea you pose of making Senior year different is good. In Germany, students go to high school for the first two years, after which the students go on to different tracks. Those who are scholastically inclined go one way, those who are trade-oriented go another. I agree with this plan. The stupidity of forcing every single kid into a STEM track when the actual STEM employment opportunities hover around 6% -- and has been declining.

What you speak of is a problem of circulation. People misunderstand money. Money is like the circulation system. When you get cancerous economic growth that hordes money, that money doesn't get re-circulated into actual real-world investment in the society -- which is the original purpose of money : to commodify human production into economic units that can enable economic transformation.

So when money gets obfuscated into nebulous asset investments that do not equate into any real social investment, that is what happens when money is horded, or churned into the asset casino. Nothing real actually got purchased. Nothing real that affects anyone actually got created.

Oh but a single individual named Jeff Bezos got to go to the edges of outer space. Meanwhile the rest of us peons drive iron/aluminum gasoline driven vehicles over the planet earth trying to make a living.

Click here for an interesting article on why modern humans get cavities even though they regularly brush their teeth.

Our dental health changed with our diets. Ancient humans and their hominin ancestors really didn’t have much of a problem with cavities. In fact, finding an ancient skull with a cavity is such a big deal that you can go and publish a whole paper just to show off the discovery. Unhappy smiles became more common only after the advent of farming led to humans eating a lot more carbs — a shift that went even further following the widespread availability of refined flour and sugar in the 19th century.

But in the past decade or so, scientists sequenced the DNA from ancient dental plaque and figured out that something else in our mouths was changing at the same time as our dental health. Turns out, there are specific strains of bacteria — streptococcus mutans, in particular — that are more common in mouths with cavities. And as human diets changed and cavities became more common, those bacteria started taking over our mouths. Our modern communities of oral bacteria are less diverse than our ancestors’ were, and they’re dominated by these cavity-causing strains.

Sheeple accept how freedom is defined to them by their chosen sources of information. Sheeple seek confirmation for their own ideological positions, and have been mentally trained to believe the framing of the economic system by the wealthy owners of multinational corporations. Sheeple think democracy is a voting consumer checking boxes or pushing a touch screen once every other year, and then are told that government is too corrupt to trust even while they shop at grocery stores where every item they purchase is owned by 5 or 6 corporations. Even while it is the money from the benieficiaries of monopolistic profit extraction that is how the politicians become corrupt in the first place. Any genuine legislator is then pigeon-holed or marginalized because the foxes in the hen house don't want cops on the beat who actually do their jobs.

A billionaire, a white guy & a Black guy sit at a table. The billionaire has a huge plate of cookies in front of him, the white guy has 1 cookie & the Black guy has none.

“Psssst!” the billionaire whispers. “That Black guy wants your cookie!”

Or as Ex-President Ex-Senate Majority Leader Texan Lyndon B Johnson used to say,"If you can convince a poor white man that he is better than a nigger, you can pick his pocket all day long."

The first part of this video is about a Tennessee parent from Williamson County who speaks in front of the school board completely trouncing the anti-mask parents with truth, even throwing their bible back at them, revealing them to be self-righteous hypocrites.

The second part is about this unmasked crowd harassing someone who had on a mask, with someone aggressively getting into it shouting "We know where you live."

Our nation is going crazy. Reactionary vigilante groups are waiting to start shooting guns. Are we really going to have a civil war because some people think addressing a global pandemic is stepping on their ... Freedumb? Really?

The fucking small pox virus nearly wiped out Native Americans.

Yes, humans are causing Global Climate change and the rise in average Temperatures.

You get to make decisions for yourself rather than the government, and we get to run the government in the interests of our wealthy patrons.