• @xePBMg9
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    249 months ago

    Best thing we can do to help the children is to pay teachers substantially more. Until then, things like this will keep happening.

    • LEX
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      49 months ago

      Well you sure as hell aren’t going to hear any arguments from me on that one. I think that’s the real story, here. That woman was making an embarrassingly small salary for her service. Missourians should be ashamed of themselves.

      • @[email protected]
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        49 months ago

        Sadly, the low pay for teachers is pretty pervasive across the entire US. My first teaching job paid $36k per year in Wisconsin in 2013. Luckily, rent wasn’t quite so expensive back then, but it’s still an outrageously low income for what is expected from teachers. I don’t know a single teacher who either doesn’t have a second job or a spouse that makes quite a bit of money.