• xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com
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            1 year ago

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

              • Ilovemyirishtemper@lemmy.world
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                1 year 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.

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            1 year ago

            In some ways, I do think you are right.

            If everyone saw the president doing porn I imagine that would impact how people engaged with him politically.

            That being said, I do feel like you are treating the symptom and not the source.

            Teachers are not using work like porn for freedom of expression, they are doing it to put a roof over their heads. It’s meant to supplement income that is not part of their primary source: Teaching.

            So long as we pay teachers a poverty level, I don’t think we can debate the morality of survival. Or punish them for the inaction of politicians.