More Pay for Teacher Unions

You can’t pay rent, your choice of food is instant ramen, and you’re having to cut back on your monthly weed consumption, yet here you are at the store, being asked by a multi-billion-dollar company to donate $1 to your local school so they can write it off on their taxes. In exchange, you get to feel like you’ve done something. Sounds like a great trade-off, right!?

Well, it’s interesting that teachers, their pay, and the school’s budget are always the yearly topic of discussion. Before you blame it on inflation, here me out. Who's behind it? The teachers or the teachers' unions? Both. Teachers are always asking for more pay – who wouldn't be? However, teacher unions and politicians benefit as well. How?

Here’s how: https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus?ind=L1300

“From 2004 to 2016, their donations grew from $4.3 million to more than $32 million -- an all-time high.”

Shocking. Money! As teachers' wages increase, so do the costs of teacher union dues, which end up in the laps of politicians who push for lower standards in schools. This not only leads to more faculty being hired, generating more union dues, but also allows more students to graduate. This trend carries over into the job market, leaving boomers wondering where the work ethic has gone. Who knows!? It can't be the low standards pushed by public schools and the ever so important commie agendas of transing the kids – that'd be too convenient.

Let's not forget about maximizing school budgets to siphon money into programs such as free-school-lunch, which benefits big businesses like Sysco or boosts top-level management salaries. What’s wrong with free lunch, you might ask? Great question. Why can’t parents afford to provide a lunch for their kids? It teaches them responsibility and independence; the very values liberals often claim to support. Plus, free school lunch often includes GMO foods and high fructose corn syrup, which contribute to obesity. What's going on? I thought liberals were concerned about children's health? No problem, just hire more people to get to the root cause of the childhood obesity epidemic!

It’s astonishing that as the standards of public schools get lower, student drop out rates higher, school attendance down and testing scores down as well, that the budget for schools keeps on increasing – people are more than willing to increase the budget. More money they say!

Even though the quality of teachers is down, 20% of students come from single-mother households, where standards and discipline are often lacking. This is partly because the single mom is too busy with other concerns, such as not having the time to change lampshades to match the season. Can you believe that was a thing just 50 or so years ago in America? Yes, mothers would change the lampshades of their lights to match the season. Now they’re too busy juggling multiple jobs, dealing with the demands of feminism – as a liberal may put it “demands of modern life”, which may include working three jobs, posting on OnlyFans, or getting with her quarterly boyfriend – sometimes all of that plus more! Which not only generates more money, but all that really matters is you know she’s slayin’ – she’s getting hers!

You know what all this means though? That’s right, more jobs! You must have case workers and security to deal with misbehaving kids, more teachers and teacher aides, and just in general, more staff. You know what they say: the more, the better!

Once again, it’s all about money and government expansion through policy. You might be asking: What's the solution, all-knowing one? Simple: Defund the public schools. Eliminate the bureaucracy as Vivek Ramaswamy has suggested.