WATCH: Teacher SCHOOLS Republican Arguing Against Raising Educator Pay
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- Utah teacher John Arthur absolutely schools Republican Senator Bill Cassidy in epic fashion. Arthur delivers a brilliant speech advocating for an increase in teacher salaries, destroys Senator Cassidy's absurd arguments against raising educator pay and so much more.
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Sadly, politicians are making the argument that teachers have some political agenda. If I can just say as a 31 yr veteran teacher, nobody has time to add anything to the workload when half your kids have zero parental support. You are trying to make up for all the things that kids come to school not knowing. Lesson plans and resources and meetings and wiping your students tears and then your own. It’s a lot. I never thought of doing anything but making sure my students got my very best efforts so they would know they were worth my time and that they could achieve anything. I wanted them to believe they were the best and the brightest stars. I wanted to make a difference. You think teachers have time to think about ways to undermine or distort American history?! Really?!
thank you for your dedication. you are an honorable person. 😊
This is exactly why I get so incensed at the accusations leveled at teachers. The *only* "social agenda" I've ever heard a teacher pursuing is basic standards of civilized behavior - no hitting, no biting, share your toys, treat others the way you would like to be treated. Terrible, right? But elected officials and people who have never taught, and/or haven't stepped foot in a classroom in decades keep piling on time-consuming requirements so that if the teachers have a moment to cover actual subject matter material it's practically a miracle. -- Thank you for continuing to do what you do in the face of such egregious disrespect.
@@valetamuzik Amen. This upcoming school year will be year 20 for me after I ditched another career in my 30s. I have t regretted it for one day, even with the relentless discouraging nonsense we see coming from these politicians. I get to spend my days with kids, doing all I can to help them move a step closer every day to loving literature and writing. It is a privilege. I have no desire to bean administrator, honorable as that is, because I would miss being with my students all day.
Very cool to see my state’s Teacher of the Year in front of Congress!
Take senators' pay and swap it with teachers.
That is not the sound of a teacher who is trying grooming a child, who is teaching false facts, who is putting in time. That is the sound of an educated man who wants the best for kids and wants to keep educators in the classroom. Too bad we hear incorrect comments from politicians, many of whom do not even have their children in public schools.
Its simple, Teachers should make what Congressman and Legislatures make and they should make what teachers make.
Can we cut cassidys pay down to teacher level please?
What “negatively impacts” kids is having teachers who are paying for equipment out of their own meager salaries. Teachers should be paid MORE than people playing sport. Both my parents were teachers in another country & positively impacted THOUSANDS of people & the children they had who learned from what my parents taught them. Decades later I STILL have their ex-students telling me how much my parents impacted their lives by being great teachers.
The stories my wife, an early childhood teacher, shared with me year after year was frightening. A four year old coming into the school system with so much baggage of all kinds meant they were beginning twenty yards behind the start line. These same individuals wanted my wife to do everything, and I mean everything. Blaming the school systems is just the easy way out. This Senator from Louisiana criticized all teachers and systems should really stay in his lane and that’s closer to home.
Well said Mr Arthur!
Teachers DO NOT prioritize political “agenda’s” while educating our students.
I can’t understand why anyone would believe that. We don’t have time to do that. We’re more concerned about teaching students critical thinking skills, reading and writing proficiency and proper etiquette.
Bravo to Mr. Arthur! 🎉
Lol 😆😆😆😆😆 that's a good joke.
About the agenda.
@@ubereats3048 I’d be happy to have you visit my classroom any day. This is relentless talking point, and while I’m sure political ideology is shared inappropriately, that is not the norm. And btw, do you think it’s possible that political ideology is doled out from both sides of the aisle? This is constant drum beat from the right, but surely you can imagine passionate conservative teachers (which are present all over the country) crossing those lines as well. It is inappropriate at all times, and something I do not engage in.
@@stevenslaughter8473 not sure where you are but in California it is normal. And has been normal since 1980s.
That's over 40 years of just one political point of view.
Teachers I know from around the USA all have to go along with the agenda or be fired.
Title 9 was under attack in every state until some states what to protect it .
@@ubereats3048 I am in Chicago (the Dem city proper, not the GOP burbs). I’ve taught in the public system and now in a progressive private school. Maybe I’ve just been fortunate and work with professionals who know the ethical limits of their job, but I have not seen this or heard students or parents complain about teachers crossing lines. Also…I’ve worked abroad in an intl Christian school. A number of students, children of missionaries, have told me stories of their various years in US public schools during their furlough years (usually every 3-4 yrs) and how many PUBLIC school teachers - usually in the Bible Belt - routinely prayed w students “in Jesus name”, such as during lunch. I am a Christian and this, too, is totally inappropriate. Just as I would not ‘evangelize’ my kids on my political opinions, I would also never cross lines on evangelizing my faith outside of a Christian school context. Both are unethical.
@@ubereats3048 since 1980, California has had republican governors for 24 of those years. Are you saying the Republican party was pushing liberal/progressive viewpoints for decades?
Louisiana ranks 40th in education in the USA. One wonders why Cassidy is even at this hearing.
Cassidy is a fool!
@@kimberley1449 ...maybe the kindest description of him ever... 🤣
They might be lower then 40th honestly
im guessing the gop response was "yeah, get that woke shit out of here " then proceeded to vote to decrease teacher pay again
Yep. That's the trigger not to think.
I am 73, my whole school experience,the teachers have supplied children with knowledge,caring,safety, encouragement, as well as school supplies, snacks, at times clothing. They also supply first aide, and recommend the child for possible appt with physician,mental health care,or child protection agency when needed. What have the Republicans done ?
Chosen Trump, the least likely person in the world to give a single sh!t about anyone else, let alone their children. And they are trying to force more unwanted children into the world by restricting reproduction rights and eventually outlawing contraception, but not giving a toss how they fare once they are born.
Meanwhile I was born in 85 and realized in elementary school I didnt want to be a teacher because of the money...If we knew in ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in the 90s WE DIDNT WANT TO TEACH BECAUSE OF THE MONEY, ITS BEEN A PROBLEM WE HAVE KNOWN ABOUT...ITS A BUNCH OF PEOPLE WHO SEND THEIR KIDS TO PRIVATE SCHOOL MAKING DECISIONS ON PUBLIC SCHOOLS..WAKE UP YALL
He melted my heart too! Wow that was an incredible speech. 10/10
Support our teachers!!
It's fascinating how there are two Americas, the deliberately ignorant and those who work hard against that.
PAY...PAY...PAY, our teachers!!
This man is a true teacher hero!
Thank you❤
"How did we get here?" We got here by defunding public education in favor of charter/private schools, vilifying teachers, and blaming it on the "liberals". We got here because Republicans put us here.
BINGO!
100 percent, right. I agree. My son has a master degree as a guidance counselor and left the job as a guidance counselor, and changed to a different career. Sad.
We pay Congress for not doing their jobs, but short change teachers 😳😳😳
He should be the secretary of education.
My girlfriend's been teaching for a couple years now and goes above and beyond for her students. I've seen her with her kids and she really puts everything she has into it. She comes home almost every night with work to do before the next day. I would have loved to have her as a teacher when I was in high school. So many parents and administrators mistreat and mismanage teachers. And so many states (including my own) are making it harder on educators to teach. If there's one thing we should feel comfortable with providing money to, it should be public education. Even if you don't have kids, we all have benefitted from public education in one way or another and will continue to do so.
Teachers have always been paid less than the average factory worker but have been required to have continuous education in their fields
You get what you pay for that's why kids are failing now. Cheap teacher pay.
IF THE POWERS THAT BE HAVE NO RESPECT FOR TEACHERS AND EDUCATION.....HOW CAN PARENTS AND STUDENTS HAVE RESPECT?
Teachers helps our future better by teaching our children. Giving teachers higher pay will only make the world better. I don't think teachers are asking for too much. Give all teachers what they need to progress into a better future. 💯🤷
Imagine if we had a military issue 😂😂😂 the first thing the government would do is increase the budget. We have a issue with education system and Republicans solutions is to make schools worse and teachers want to leave even more 😂😂😂 yea that will fix the solution
They already do and it doesn’t work because the military is more poorly ran than our public school systems tend to be. Our public schools deserve a military budget
None of the teachers I have ever known in my 60+ years on the earth, became teachers for the money! But it is the reason some very good and special teachers left the profession, they wanted to pay their bills and feed their families and not have to be on food assistance to do it.
The sad truth.
BRAVO! Mr. Arthur! Bravo!!
Teacher shortages all across the country. What is the solution according to republicans? Lower teacher salaries..
The repukes don't want kids education to be better cuz they won't be as easily manipulated in the future.
Resign under constructive discharge and file EEO for that and religious discrimination ..then file unemployment
Funneling public funds to religious schools. Move students into those classrooms. It’s happening, a lot.
6/30/2024 I give you one better. Trump’s manifesto Project 2025 will get rid of the Department of Education. Only the wealthy will afford to educated their kids
Republicans want to destroy the public education system. They want to privatize education.
The schools are broken because the govt keeps interfering with stupid stuff.
Pay the teachers, hold parents accountable.
Repubs
I don't understand the rightwing desire to move backwards.
It's because uneducated people are more likely to vote for Republicans.
It's literally the definition of "conservative". Just old greedy zealots. That's all it is.
It's easier to control, manipulate and brainwash people that are not educated.
This young man's speech was beautiful but it does not answer the complaints the senator has put forth. Teachers are professionals, just like doctors and lawyers but have never garnered the respect or salary of the other two. The lack of respect from not only students and parents but also fellow professionals is appalling. When I take my child to a doctor, I ask questions to better understand my child's medical concerns, but I do not try to tell the doctor how to do a medical procedure on my child. If my child had legal issues and I took them to an attorney, again I would ask questions and I might even say something like, " Can we do this or that too help?" But I would not try to draw up a legal argument or try to represent my child in court. That is what the professional is there for. But many non teachers will question every action within a classroom. They will tell teacher, the professional, how to teach. Schoolboards all over our country try to tell teachers how to teach and what to teach and most of them are NOT professional educators. Most private schools are run by either religious entities or businesses, neither of which are professional educators. The republican party want to go back to the times where only those who could afford to pay for their children to be educated are educated. It's because they know they can control uneducated people easier than educated people. That is also their aim by taking out any thought provoking subjects out of acceptable subjects being taught. If you haven't been taught to think, you tend not to think. But have a good look at the republican base, so many are not well educated and they have been manipulated and led to for years.
Well, to pay teachers more, we need to raise taxes. But no one wants their taxes raised. So you get what you pay for, minus the few who are actually passionate about teaching.
Republicans dont platform on low taxes out of principle, they do it for votes and wealthy donations to stau in power. You keep cutting taxes, the power we have placed in government will be diminished by the corpo monopolies, who fund these politicians pushing for this end result.
One of the most important jobs for all our children and some of the teachers qualify for food stamps!
No the GOP has lost sight of education
Louisiana is a prime example of that enforcing biblical indoctrination over education with forcing the 10 commandments into the classroom and ignoring the whole separation of church and state thing.
In one state you have the governor banning books, changing history, and suggesting teachers carry guns and you don’t want our public babysitters, nursemaids, psychologists, and soon-to-be security guards to be paid a fair wage?
Well, hey, he makes a great argument and exemplar. Let's do it.
Thank you! Absolutely the truth about teachers. Please take your message to every state and help teachers become the powerful advocates they are for the best profession of all. Help fight the negative that comes at us from those who font belive in public education when paired with involved parenting -this creates the reason for a great nation we can become.
(I am a retired sped teacher and nea member in oklahoma who is just defeated by the education leader in OK)
How about some regulation on what school board members and Superintendent
Get paid ..... 200k + is bs
School Superintendents are the executive to how many employees? They are responsible for the education and safety of how many children? I think some of your disdain is misplaced.
@@jimhazel1544 and when the kids are under performing y'all blame the teachers.
Public schools aren't corporations and superintendents are ceos
@@jimhazel1544 well we think our tax dollars are misplaced.
An executive is still only doing ONE person's job, not all of the jobs of everyone they are stealing food from.
Meanwhile teachers still have to pay out of pocket for teaching supplies. Ridiculous.
@@RobertEmery I had to pay out of pocket when I taught school but mostly because I was new and my time was worth more than the hassle of slowing things down. School systems are often the largest employers of any major city except for Co's like Amazon or a Naval shipyard etc., so its thousands of people. $200 K is not that high compared to a a company exec with even 400 employees. Some school board members are not paid at al or it is a stipend. We do not raise nearly the revenue at state level for schools like we used to decades ago. Your not going to find that raise for thousands of teachers in 1 Superintendents salary and a good Superintendent is a good leader and teachers need that too.
Teachers should make more than lawyers.
Certainly more than the members of congress
Both my husband and I are teachers and I cringed when my son said he was thinking of being a teacher. 😢 yes, it’s the pay.
Its truly baffling that the most underpaid and least regarded profession in our nation has the highest and most important obligation and responsibility to its citizens. Educating, teaching and molding the minds of our children. You heard the saying, "you get what you pay for"..? In this country where the majority of its people would put Donald Trump in the oval office, that statement has become apparent to me to be seemingly true. There should be no shame for ignorance.. the shame is in the stupidity of choosing to stay ignorant.
Sorry, there are many other underpaid professions. Try being a non-tenure-track research scientist who too often has to settle for contingent (insecure) positions that too often devolve to a string of low-paying post-doc positions.
Yes. Edumacation and skience both need more investment
We pay the people who take care of our MOST valuable assets the least amount of money. Our children, who are our future. And our elderly, who are our past and represent our history. Yet child care workers, teachers, elderly caretakers and medical workers have such low pay. Why is that? Don’t we want our children and our elderly to be well taken care of care of? I don’t think we value our children, our elderly or our women in the US. We might say we do, but we sure don’t show it.
What's sad is that all of the GOP congressmen were thinking about where they would head out to eat lunch after Arthur's speech.
Inspiring.
Cant agree more with Mr Arthur
❤ Teachers build nations. Give them their due Rights and respect
Republicans in Iowa passed a school voucher scheme with no limits on income. So a wealthy family can get taxpayer dollars to send their kid to private school. We have many counties that have no private school option. Republicans also dismantled aeas teachers that help kids with disabilities and they gutted their collective bargaining agreement back in 2017. So the only thing they can negotiate is their pay... Which is hardly a negotiation. Basically I think the governor gives paltry raises. Our Metro cities are increasing in population but our rural counties are dying and many schools have consolidated or closed. Republicans only hear what they want to hear though and don't listen to anyone that matters.
I'm willing to bet the legislation gets nice pay raises every year so they can live comfortably, while Teachers struggle to make ends meet. Also paying for supplies out of pocket.
What this man is saying is 100% right, my son is an 8th grade teacher in a title 1 public school, and he is my hero!
pretty sure this Senator voted to raise his own pay.
There should be a nationwide walk out by educators.
Ironic that a Republican talks about the system being broken considering that all studies show:
1) Of the 10 states that have the lowest academic scores, 8 are Republican, 1 is Democrat, and 1 is a swing state.
2) Of the 10 states that have the highest academic scores, 8 are Democrat, 1 is Republican and 1 is a swing state.
that senator sounds like a typical drop out who never even passed a college entrance exam.
Love how these congressman don't have to worry about pay.... And even in government shutdown, they still get paid. Shameful.
don't forget the AIPAC bribes
Change is needed, VOTE against ignorance and gaslighting the uneducated.
It would be amazing if teachers could be treated as valuable in USA as he said they were in Korea. Paying teachers better is a direct investment in the community and pay great dividends
The issue is that kids in America suck. Their parents suck. I know for a fact that Koreans don't teach their kids to disrespect authority, police and teachers.
@orlandoescobar5174 There you go, it's harsh, but you're right.
Well, that sounds pretty common sense to me. Thank you to all teachers for putting taking care of our future with little pay and being underappreciated.
This senators state ranks 49th in education... for those who failed elementary school thats actually 2nd to last in the United States-
Yeah, but math is too much of a liberal topic to teach kids! After eliminating books from school, we need to focus on removing this math concept you speak of. 🤔
@@MacMcIntire please let this be sarcasm
@@Wes4T2D Haha, yes. Total sarcasm. I should have included a disclaimer.
@@MacMcIntire🤣🤣😎
@@MacMcIntire Yes. A good math class involves logic and problem solving. We can't have that. And yes, I am being sarcastic.
Listening to him almost made me think about teaching. But then i remembered that whole pay thing.
And student loan debt.
Trump would definitely be intimidated by this teacher.
Public school teachers are number one!🥰
Excellent!
This is a clear case of Educated versus NOT educated. Or simply Good versus evil. Or racist versus Non racist.
And education is a perfect replacement for religious myth and indoctrination. Republicans don’t want education. They want mindless obedient religious sheep who will do what they say without question. The battle between education and religious indoctrination is as old as society itself.
@@nts4906 We need more education and less intrusive religion.
Wow, great speech, we can make this country great by growing and providing for our youth. Not privatizing and segragation and de-funding where funds are needed most. Vote BLUE Utah. Vote BLUE America.
The root problems are bad one size fits all curriculums, politicians who know nothing about education and parents who don't raise their kids they expect schools to do it for them.
“I’m not sure throwing money at the problem will fix it…” says the guy who votes for his own pay raises.
We’ve been throwing money at the NEA and the DoE for decades with diminishing returns. Where did that all that money go, scout?
@@latrinemarine826 Well for starters teacher pay is determined at the local level, so that blame can go to the state governments that refuse to give pay increases to teachers. My wife is a teacher and we live in Texas, teachers here haven't gotten a pay raise in years, school budgets haven't been increased since 2019. So districts across the state are closing campuses, which will only lead to even larger class sizes and less ti,e for teachers to spend with individual students. So yes, teachers need a pay increase and public school budgets need to keep up with the needs of the students. But I, sure you're fine with this because a less informed and less educated populace is more likely to vote for Republicans in elections and that's all you care about.
@@davidoliver62 Actually, thanks to progressive meddling in education, we are all stupider as a result. I’m perfectly okay raising teacher salary contingent on political neutrality in the classroom. Deal?
@@latrinemarine826 Teachers don't care about politics. All the things the right us complaining about is simply not actually happening in schools. Teachers don't have time for that nonsense, it's just made up by people on the right to scare people. Critical race theory is not and never has been taught in public schools. That is just a fact. Teachers aren't in school grooming kids to be gay. Mainly because that isn't how being gay works. The only indoctrination Being attempted in public schools is coming from all the states trying to force Christianity in the classrooms, but I'm, sure you have no issue with that since it's indoctrination you likely agree with. Regardless of how unconstitutional it is. Judgung by your screen name you either are or were a Marine, so I can only assume you support the Constitution. So, since none of the nonsense you are talking about is actually happening, then I'm glad we agree teachers should get paid.
@@latrinemarine826 You don't throw money at the NEA. That's a union, and the dues come out of teacher salaries. What diminishing returns? There are plenty of kids graduating and going on to jobs and universities. What this all comes down to is you getting info from right wing media and actually not knowing WTF is actually going on.
a senator that makes 6 figures and receives the best health care in the world and the best retirement (via kickbacks, insider trading, and lobbying) has the gall to push back against higher pay for teachers? what a jerk
What a jerk is putting it mildly
Teachers are over paid. Almost all government employees are over paid as well.
We need teachers like this more than Senators like that. Right?
Right!
Well said
No . A teacher didn't say anything about test results. If the test results at 100 precent at grade level then I would agree.
Former public school teacher here. Former Department Chair. Former sponsor of an after-school program. John Arthur is THE MAN. I don't know him but can tell you just from this short video that he embodies what public education is all about. Community. And elevating students. Teachers are ROCK STARS. Sadly, too many in the GOP are determined to damage public education and drain its coffers for their friends in the private sector. John Arthur is precisely the kind of professional we need to stop them. KEEP ON MARCHING, JOHN!
Listen MAGA GOPs, reduce your salary and increase teachers. Besides you are not doing anything productive to help Americans.
Plus they made enough money through insider trading, they don't really need any salary from us.
@@L7301O Guess who's funding them also, MAGA voters... And it's gets even worse ..
@@L7301O It's all just in plain sight ..
I met Bill Cassidy when he was a new congressman, and I was a teacher in Louisiana. He should be the last person on the planet to listen to on education. He's a MAIN reason LA is 47 in education. He got his 30-year-old Nephew (with 2 years of teaching experience) installed as the principal of my H.S., he was totally unqualified. I taught for 12 years, no longer teach and no longer live in the shithole state of Louisiana
I have an aunt that's a retired elementary teacher and an uncle that's a retired principal in Colorado. They told their two kids they would pay for their education as long as they didn't go into teaching. I'd imagine teaching is a better profession in Colorado than Louisiana, which tells you how bad it is.
Mr Arthur is a perfect example of fine, smart upstanding teacher and democrat! We have all the Intellectuals who live in the real world and follow the rules! Maga republicans have lost their way - just look at who they worship 🙄
Educators and health care professionals should be the highest paying jobs in America!
Healthcare? Like who?
Nurses and doctors are like teachers over paid.
In 1977-78 I was a high school math teacher making $8700 a year. In 1979, I quit teaching and got a job working in private industry as a computer programmer. My annual salary increased to $18,900 a year and I got paid time and a half for overtime. Using the CPI inflation calculator:
$8700 a year would be equivalent to $37000 today.
$18,900 a year would be equivalent to $81,761 today.
I was the 5th math teacher to leave the school district in just two years.
When I see how Republican House and Senate politicians repeat their empty rhetoric denigrating the teachers of the US and forming astro turf partisan political organizations to attack the teachers, school boards, librarians, principals guidance counselors … I have to wonder why anyone remains a teacher. However, I am glad that there are teachers with the courage, conviction, and compassion to remain teachers. A teachers job is much harder today and they deserve every penny they are making. I believe they all should make more, we should have smaller class sizes, elementary schools should have more reading specialists so that reading problems can be identified early and students can be taught the skills they need to advance. The US should also have universal pre-school.
Of course, Republicans would rather criticize the schools with their empty and meaningless rhetoric of “CRT” and “wokism”. They really want to destroy public education and turn the system into a private corporation profit center. Then only those monied elite families would have the best education, while the majority would not be able to afford to pay for their child’s education. The “Voucher Programs” being pushed by republicans are designed to bleed public schools of the funds needed to run the schools. The vast majority of voucher money goes to families who already send their children to private schools. Many of those schools are unaffordable to the majority even with the voucher. Basically, the voucher programs are a public subsidy to the wealthy to help them pay for private school while taking that money from the public school.
Republicans don’t want to solve any school problems, they want to kill public education because the masses don’t deserve to be educated.
in addition..private schools can admit or exclude ANYONE THEY WANT. THEY ARE BRINGING BACK SEGREGATION BY ANOTHER NAME. IT STILL STINKS.
It's really to bad you never learned to spell google...
Here is what Republicans think of alternate school concepts
When a basic definition of each policy was provided, 79% of Black parents supported vouchers, 74% supported charter schools, and 78% supported open enrollment. Roughly three in four Black parents (78%) support education savings accounts, which are becoming increasingly popular across the country
Oops...that's right bp aren't really Republicans
🎯👏👏
@@trevorxlindeman1798 Exactly!
Obviously, Cassidy has never been in a classroom. Talking points, no real world evidence. Shameful.
And yet it's easier to shame... Than to fund....
Since when did Republicans need evidence. They ostracize and debase.
Over paid teacher asking for more money. Shocked 😲😲😲
@@ubereats3048 Troll bot.
@@antclerfont8478 truth that teachers are overrated and overpaid.
I am a Ph.D. college professor.
And proud product of K-12 public schools.
Thank you America for your support of public education.
@@mafarmerga how many of your students did you sexual abuse or sexual harassment?
@@ubereats3048 "how many of your students did you sexual abuse or sexual harassment?"
Apparently you never went to school since you cannot write a grammatically correct sentence.
@@mafarmerga I went to Public school in Oakland California.
I am the reason I believe school choice should be free for everyone.
A politician who is getting paid twice what most teachers get paid, who is part of a political system that gives itself annual pay increases no matter how unproductive they are, actually telling a teacher of the year that "I just don't see how we're going to fix the problem by throwing more money at it..", which is what special interest lobbyists do with politicians *EVERY DAMN DAY!!!*
Well said!
Bro I was on conference call with this teacher. He knows what’s going on in schools. He gets it’s. These republicans never will.
The politician asks what’s wrong with education today? YOU BROKE IT!!! Teachers have not lost sight of their vision, YOU POLITICIANS make is teach to the test. Joy of teaching and joy of learning IS GONE! Add to that the blame, disrespect, and poor pay. Who would sign on to that?????
Where did he get his information from? Did he pull it out of his ass? My wife and all three of our kids are teachers. My wife is in an elementary school and the kids are high school teachers. Well, one did just leave teaching. None of them teach social issues. They teach the curriculum. If he thinks teachers are not, he is insane, ignorant, or lying. He needs to spend time in the classrooms and see what it is like. I honestly don't know why my wife and kids teach other than the fact they love the kids. And over the years, I have watched our Republican controlled state government try to destroy and dismantle the public educational system.
Mr. Arthur's words are wasted on that group of grifters. They don't understand anything that doesn't serve to get them re-elected to the gravy train.
Hopefully enough constituents will hear his words, and will want to hold their representatives in government accountable.
Bravo.
Interesting (though inappropriate) choice of words by that guy against pay raises for teachers: "not throw more money at the problem".
Let's use them when tax cuts for the very rich are discussed.
There's no place in our future for *this* GOP. They're hopelessly mired in their willful ignorance.
Certainly not in the future that reasonable people would want. But if things go badly in November, "our future" could be dominated by the destructive agenda of those like Senator Cassidy.
Teachers HAVE NOT lost sight of their mission to educate children. What an a'hole.
This teacher is an amazing communicator and the students in his classroom will benefit immensely.
I heard a threat there from that Senator - "teach what we want you to or we will not fund your school."
Schools are not broken. Politicians are broken. Open your eyes.
Brilliant comment!
Republicans love to talk about broken schools so that people think that schools are actually broken and then they stop trusting schools. An uneducated population is easier to control. Why do you think that the Republican voter is so easily controlled???
It's interesting that in every industrialized nation, teachers are RESPECTED but here teachers are ATTACKED and DISRESPECTED. How quickly all these critics have forgotten about how they were CRYING and WHINING during covid when schools were on remote learning and parents had to deal with their own children. I say there should be a law that ALL lawmakers must substitute in a public school for a week b4 they can pass or propose ANY legislation regarding education.
Dude pay teachers a living wage. You expect them to get a degree and raise your children for 8 hours a day. But want them underpaid?
Real shock that a Republican was against a pay raise.
Do politicians realize not everyone can just give themselves a raise?
We should decrease our Legislature's pay to the amount Teachers make and increase our Teacher's pay to what the Legislature makes. Our Legislature is one of the least productive in history.
Amen
I’d rather pay teachers than give tax breaks to corporations or selfish wealthy team owners for stadiums…why do we have to reward them with tax dollars and then pay high prices for tickets, food, and merch at said stadiums. Teachers bring out ideas, open the minds of children, inspire, and take care of students during the school day. We now pay bad cops that kill innocent people that often times only have a high school diploma and no psychological training or social skills to deal with people…and yet talk so much sh?t about teachers. This society is ass backwards and is turning into an idiocracy where some adults think it’s ok to elect a felon and a corrupt supreme court has the right to take away people’s civil rights…go figure
The problem is, if they give teachers a raise, that will attract better quality teachers who understand how to educate, which in turn makes students smarter and less likely to vote Republican.
--- Correct. Anti-intellectuals are. . . .
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This man is exactly the educator Republicans hate. A well spoken and educated man who has the certifications and knowledge to put them all in their places.
He’s the perfect ventriloquist for NEA, DEI, and LGBT propaganda for sure.
@@latrinemarine826I don't know if you're the one needing to talk about propaganda. You're kind of a prince of the dip-shits.
@@latrinemarine826do you need a safe space, snowflake? I've never seen someone so triggered by boogeymen.
I’m wondering if Senator Cassidy asks the same question of his anti-education Republican colleagues when they go around voting themselves a pay raise in the most unproductive Congress in history?
Republicans don’t mind allowing Trump to get money for his grift , but for teachers … not a penny more !
Teachers are entrusted with our young ones everyday. Republicans have demeaned them, have subjected them to ridicule and treated them as beggars when they request better pay. Teachers are heroes. Teachers are also our childrens first line of defense for our children. Teachers have put their own safety ahead of our child’s all while Congress won’t address gun issues in our Country.
The politicians kid's ,for the most part attend Charter or private schools where the teachers are well paid. They could care less about public schools or the students.
We can't afford to pay the backbone of our society anymore... says someone making six figures as a servant representing his constituents in a part time capacity
give teachers the 183k, dummies in congress make
If Congresses pay was that of Teachers none of them would run for office..
Bravo. Standing ovation.