Most likely, I’ll be moving to NC and will be making a ton less than NYS teachers just so I can teach and do what I love. In NC the pay is $30,800 to start at step 0 and raises barely keep up with COLA increases and inflation.
When I teach, I also keep a lot of my views to myself and provide students with multiple perspectives and let them make their own opinions based on factual information. I use sources from “conservative” “liberal” “moderate” and outside sources so that get a whole picture. I rather them form their own opinion than me spoon feeding them shit.
And my views have nothing to do with being brainwashed. We see what’s going on in the country. The dispairity between who owns the wealth and how much they own of it compared to the rest. Jobs are gone, there is no money staying in the country. Business, are taking advantage of anyone they can.
A majority of it starts from early on, even before the person is born. I know most of you hate terms like “working poor” and “cycle of poverty,” but, it’s a real thing and through studies it does show you really are pretty much going to be born and die in your socioeconomic class. It stands to reason that poor kids will go to poor schools and get shit education and be stuck in that cycle. It’s very hard to move out of it and live a better life.
I also don’t believe there should be hands outs per se. If a person works hard and busts their ass, they should have at least the very basics covered by the company they work for. It pisses me off that companies rake in billions of dollars each year only to let the workers suffer and cause them to take government hand outs. These hand outs are paid by you and me. If companies took responsibility and did the moral thing, we wouldn’t have to worry about welfare, medicaid and so forth as much.
And again, just because a person makes minimum wage or retail doesn’t make them a lazy, slob, drunkard, druggy. When you go into retail stores, usualy the lazy, drunk ones are kids living at home and going to school because this is a job for extra spending cash. The adults I work with take their job serious and with pride because this is their only source of income and they dont want to lose it.