EdMinn’s Curious Self-Indictment
By Mitch Berg
Wait – didn’t the DFL in the Legislature spend most of April and May of last year doing the endzone happy dance celebrating having “fully funded” education?
I do believe they did.
So – what is up with this?
Now, when you asked a DFL legislator or an EdMN partisan what “Full Funding” meant, the “answers” should have come with a side of blue cheese for all the word salad. It was gibberish. And that was just the ones that didn’t ignore the question entirely.
As we see now, pretty much intentionally so.
March 14th, 2024 at 1:10 pm
What they’re not mentioning is that they’re lumping in teachers with a BA or MA with engineers, scientists, lawyers, and the like with a BS. or MS, and ignoring the fact that engineers, scientists, lawyers, and the like can lose their jobs, don’t get automatic raises with seniority and degree completion, and the like, and of course don’t get three months off per year.
But apart from academic rigor, difficulty of coursework, job security, time off, and the like, all these fields are exactly the same. Really.
March 14th, 2024 at 2:08 pm
^ Yes, exactly.
March 14th, 2024 at 2:09 pm
It also ignores geographical differences. Maybe in the metro they’re underpaid, but it’s hard to believe the pay for a teacher in outstate Minnesota who gets tenure, union wages, paid benefits, a pension and three months vacation every year is worse than the local mental health counsellor or lawyer working a private practice who gets none of those things.
March 14th, 2024 at 2:14 pm
Many hourly school workers make minimum wage.
An hourly school worker in the entire state of MN only making $10.85/hr? I call complete and utter bullshit on this.
March 14th, 2024 at 4:10 pm
Minimum wage? For sure not the janitor or the office staff.
Maybe the hairnet ladies dishing out hotdish in the lunch line? Maybe student interns or part-time classroom aides?
March 14th, 2024 at 6:52 pm
These actually get more time off than three months. Between the two or three MEA breaks, all of the one day holidays the majority of us don’t get, spring and Christmas breaks, plus the other random days they get off, they get almost 5 months off. Sorry, but if the average salary of an indoctrinator is $48k per year, plus bennies, that’s pretty good pay for a 7 month work year.
March 14th, 2024 at 6:52 pm
UGH! “These teachers”…
March 15th, 2024 at 10:11 am
Do you have any money left in your account? Well, that means you haven’t fully funded education, now have you? Pony up, kulak.
March 15th, 2024 at 11:18 am
@bikebubba I’ve seen the benefits that teachers get. They’ve made the decision to get gold-plated benefits, and now they’re using the fact that their *salaries* are less to try and make those gold-plated, too.
That’s a good strategy in an environment of low information progressive voters with
a fully allied media.