Nationwide - TPTB (GOP across the nation) have worked hard to reduce teachers' salaries and eliminate their unions; they disrespect a natural inclination of teachers to be political activists against political hacks' backward positions of anything that might result in kids growing up being capable of following the money (math), forming reasonable hypotheses and determining fact from mythology (science), having respect for the potential in persons with disabilities, physical and mental (special ed), and most importantly holding leadership's imbecilic ideations of their absolute white superiority (introductions to foreign language). Learning the foreign languages of peoples of other cultures and race might enable conversations with "them" and who knows what may ensue from that - mixed marriages, loss of evangelical religious participation, learning what can be done to protect every environment from the healthy body and mind, to reducing dependence on fossil fuels, chemical toxins that pollute, deforestation, and the joys of killing endangered species with important roles to play in the global ecosystems (Yay the hunt on both people and big game, self-defense, yay guns!). GASP!
Not well versed in skills, kids won't buck established systems of hate and ignorance. Some get bored; some give up; some lack the discipline to succeed. In short, keep the kids very dumb and supervise their minds at home and then reinforce that inadequate learning at school, the better to promote authoritarian injustices in the voting booth when they emerge from the public educational systems. Actually, even colleges have been lowering standards of prerequisite learning because professors find students not up to college-level basics; many skate by into educational degrees - Hah! That's okay, though, because colleges can add more remedial classes at high classroom hour cost and drop more advanced learning experiences.
The complications are the rackets with which the GOP have embraced
What passionate and effective educator would want to work under those terms?
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