re: Give teachers a raise....Nah.

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I think they are paid pretty well for what they do

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Teachers get paid shite. I won't make the argument that they deserve anything more, but they do get paid pretty terribly in most parts of the country. As far as what they do, they are stretched really thin. I can't fathom why anyone would want to be a teacher.

- More and more students forced into larger class sizes. Teaching 30,40 + kids at once is absurd for most topics.

- Parents are increasingly a fricking nightmare.

- Students are increasingly a fricking nightmare.

- Students who never pass a single class just coast through the system so you have high schoolers operating at a grade school level fricking up class for everyone else.

- Illegals being dumped into classrooms who speak no English and have never been in school before fricking up class for everyone.

- Absurd amount of bureaucracy they are forced to navigate in their jobs.

If teaching was like it was 40-50 years ago, it's fair pay. Now they're getting shafted, but since the good people are leaving and blue haired nutjobs are taking the spotlight people have no sympathy for what the group as a whole goes through.