Do you support the U.S. teacher strikes?

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fatslob-:O said:

Megiddo said:

I'm curious fatslob, why are you using the average salary of US teachers and not the average salary of teachers in West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Arizona, and Colorado where teachers are striking? We know that deep blue states will pay their teachers well, so you have to look at the rest of the country to see why they are striking as the education budget continues to get slashed in many states.

Check this link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2018/03/05/how-much-or-little-teachers-earn-state-by-state/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.530ef79af819

That link has a nice handy chart for you. Pay attention especially to how some states, particularly the states that the teachers are striking in, are paying their teachers on average less than they did almost 20 years ago.

Now I hope you learned enough in school to figure out why having a salary that is lower than what it was almost 20 years ago is a pretty bad situation.

Cause some of the red states are often poorer, older and more geographically disadvantaged thus lower salary but let's not pretend that making $40000+ on average in the worst conditions on states with already lower costs of living as being impoverished ... (if teachers in those states think that the pay in some of the blue states are more alluring than lower housing prices, produce or other lower living expenses then I dare them to try living in a big blue state or even a massive city and see if they can get a better paying job that's worth it to them) 

For the less geographically dense states, to them a digitized education is their panacea for delivering the same quality at a lower cost ... (the physical classroom is becoming more redundant than you already think) 

Oh you live in a richer neighbourhood and you do the same like other teachers in poorer states well you deserve a higher salary. Did not someone point out that teachers left a state for a better salary in an other state and those teachers got replaced by lesser educated/professional teachers?