We've seen Randi before but this week she's Tweeting that "teacher pay is too low", yet this simple graph raises questions about where the taxpayer money appropriated for education are being spent. Strangely enough, Randi rakes in over $600,000 per year.
School funding went up 152% while teachers only went up 8%. That sounds like there's a big enough pool of money to pay teachers more, but the well paid administrators simply have other priorities beside paying teachers.
Meanwhile we see entire states where the majority of students are not proficient in actual core curriculum areas. They apparently suck and math, history, reading and the like, but spend plenty of time teaching about sex and gender (but not science and biology).
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This is one of the most egregious flaws of the union employee system, but it's worse with public sector unions. The one-size-fits-all practice of across the board pay increases does nothing to improve teaching ability, nor does it even reflect positive educational outcomes in far, far too many schools. While there are many factors which go into the educating of students, including the students themselves, not to mention their parents, at least a merit based system of rewarding teachers for high test scores of their students justifies pay increases at all.
Public sector unions are a blight on our country and have siphoned billions/trillions of dollars of government spending into the pockets of union employees instead of being used for their intended purpose. Teachers unions represent and fight for teachers, not students, and not education. They want more money for their members, which translates into more money for the union leeches.
Not to mention the inherent conflict of interest of donating massive amounts of campaign funds (bribes) to the very people they then negotiate "against".
Teachers pay increases should (at least partly) be based on student performance period.
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