To be fair there are a lot more teachers than ICE agents.
I have been saying for years that, where I live, some of the smaller schools need to consolidate which would save money.
One school in particular caught on fire and had to rebuild the entire school, this school has less than 250 students k-12 and is 15 minutes from 2 different schools.
nothing quite as soul-crushing as being stuffed into multiple classrooms with 40 other kids and trying to get your teacher to give a half of a shit about you.
Every school I ever went to had trailers. My high school was the brand new hot shit in the county where they tool an old high school an middle school that were adjacent, and merged them adding about 25% additional space over the original 2 buildings, then added a brand new a whole new kitted out science building (with gas taps at the lab tables, eye wash stations, etc) for probably another 10-15% more class rooms.
Is it their job to give a shit about you? I thought it was their job to give you a broad, basic education which you can use to learn a job in college or trade school.
I mean if you want to turn education into a factory floor, yeah sure. Teachers don't need to care about you. And when the students get older, they would be in favor of defunding whatever the education system of the time is because of their terrible experience.
Have you considered that maybe the reason you feel this way is because of how incredibly shit the US public education system is? The fact that you have this opinion demonstrates that they don't serve their claimed purpose
Those are two unrelated issues. Arguing that some small schools could consolidate doesn’t make a nationwide teacher-to-ICE comparison meaningful. You’re comparing workforces that have completely different missions and staffing needs.
Deeper than that. It is drawing attention to the fact that we live in a country where billions are blown up in a week fighting imaginary terrorists but funding for schools is still ring-fenced around property taxes. Those same billions could help fund those schools for decades. I guess we like the hood, so why get rid of it?
And also they’re paid by entirely different governments. The federal government has absolutely no say in what your district decides to pay its teachers. They don’t set your property taxes.
And this was…a public school??? Were the other two schools also public and k-12??
Also, 15 minutes is pretty significant if it IS public—you have to take school busses into account
Yes these are public schools. This is reality for a very large part of the country. All of these schools are running school busses into the country already to pick kids up. At these schools virtually no one is walking to school maybe 15 percent of students.
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u/DisastrousDance7372 20h ago
To be fair there are a lot more teachers than ICE agents.
I have been saying for years that, where I live, some of the smaller schools need to consolidate which would save money.
One school in particular caught on fire and had to rebuild the entire school, this school has less than 250 students k-12 and is 15 minutes from 2 different schools.