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The quickest and easiest way to solve the staffing issues most school districts are facing would be to double teacher salaries. Heck, might even reduce the influence of the teachers union at the same time.
And they’d still be underpaid.
Holcomb the Establishment Hack is treading a fine line. His ambitions are not as easy to pull off politically when skepticism toward public education is sky-high, combined with astronomical growth rates in homeschooling (as a reaction to this skepticism), not to mention a growing sophistication in homeschool networks, where various parents collaborate and teach a small group of kids based on subjects of their individual expertise.
It’s kind of like pretending that “Sesame Street” is still good wholesome programming. The flurry of school board hearings showing educators and administrators teaching the modern-day version of Confederate Lost Cause Theory (also known as Critical Race Theory)–let alone trying to explain felching and hot karl to fourth graders–and it’s obvious that unipartyists like Holcomb are relying on a political model that collapsed close to 10 years ago for leverage…and the diminishing quotient of folks relying on the legacy media for news who buy into these campaigns.
Then again, those dumb homeschoolers and folks pushing back against wokecults need to shut up and stay in their lane. Don’t they understand that this is just in their own best interest? A dEmOcRaCy depends on a uniformly educated sOcIeTy. Sorry wokies, we aren’t a democracy (Jeanne Shaheen got checked on that the other day), and, as for society, perhaps the best thing is to challenge Margaret Thatcher’s notorious allegation.
Teachers are definitely underpaid with what they have to deal with in today’s world.
Just imagine how much we could augment our Indiana public school teacher salaries if we stopped with the “School Choice” silliness (i.e., “let’s disregard public accountability, anti-discrimination laws, federal special needs laws and the Establishment Clause while using taxpayer money to fund it all” scheme)
Totally! I mean, “choice”–what sort of barbarism are these people looking for? We all know who the authorities should be.
I was skeptical of vouchers as recently as five years ago–not just because it diverted taxpayer money away from public schools, but because the recipients of these vouchers were often moderate income kids living in good districts who simply fit the income threshold…so they’d use vouchers to be moved from districts performing above the state average to funnel more money to places like Brebeuf or Sycamore School.
But looking at the state of public education today, it’s hard not to think that they only way they will reform themselves is if they feel a world of hurt. And that means slicing away at their budgets when they consistently refuse to depoliticize the classroom. I recognize that most teachers are doing their jobs without subversion and that the saucer-plate glasses fatgirls bragging on Tiktok about turning their students trans are an extreme minority. But they do keep cropping up, suggesting that schools are hesitate to fire these awful creatures…or that the basic hiring standards have plummeted. (Sadly, in many cases, the principals are just as corrupt and are deliberately hiring these cultists.) But to think that higher salaries will bringing a higher caliber of people into the profession is delusional. Cultural Revolutionists in the classroom were unheard of 15 years ago, and teacher salaries were lower then than they are today. If teachers are allowed (or even encouraged) to violate the conditions that brought about licensure and accreditation, no amount of money is going to salve the lesion.
If we’re going to give public school teachers generous pay raises, can we at least request that they keep their hair dye to colors that occur in nature (you know, “grown-up” hair colors) and refrain from getting neck tattoos?
I wish these comparisons among state “averages” would be adjusted for cost of living. It’s meaningless to compare just the IN average salaries with those in states like CA.
Point well taken and you’re absolutely correct, but even I can acknowledge that the peer states mentioned here are generally comparable to Indiana: WI and KY and OH. If these bills can correlate pay raises for mid-career teachers (which is where Indiana lags the most) with merit and performance and positive student/parent feedback, there may be a strong claim to boosting Indiana’s teacher salaries up with Midwest states where the cost of living is comparable.
But it goes without saying that, if Holcomb is listening to teachers’ union activists like ISTA (the same entities responsible for pushing back against teacher accountability metrics and in politicizing the classroom), this is something that public school skeptics should monitor closely. It doesn’t take a good sniffer to spot a corrupt activist teacher; they’re usually more than happy to signal their ideological goals through hair color, piercings/tats, classroom wall decorations, problem glasses, and insufferable Tiktok videos.