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Wednesday, April 11th, 2018

The GOP’s Contempt for Public Education: Recent Teacher Strikes in Oklahoma and West Virginia Show How Terrible the Conditions for Teachers Can Be in Republican-Dominated States

Author:     Alex Henderson
Source:     Alternet
Publication Date:     April 10, 2018, 9:49 AM GMT
 Link: The GOP’s Contempt for Public Education: Recent Teacher Strikes in Oklahoma and West Virginia Show How Terrible the Conditions for Teachers Can Be in Republican-Dominated States
Stephan:   Here is further confirmation of the point I have been making for years: modern Christofascist Republicans cannot govern successfully. They are so committed to fact free ideologies,  religious nonsense, and greed that the policies they put into place always degrade social wellbeing, and the social outcome data of Red value states is always grossly inferior to that of Blue value states.  This has generational implications because of its impact on education. This reports spells some of that out.

Credit: Tim O’Brien

2018 may very well go down in history as the year in which public-school teachers in Republican-controlled states finally became fed up and rebelled. So far this year, statewide teachers strikes have taken place in Oklahoma and West Virginia. Teachers have been protesting in Kentucky as well, and a statewide walkout is being considered in Arizona.

When Oklahoma’s teachers strike entered its second week on April 9, teachers in that very Republican state had a long list of grievances. The minimum starting salary for teachers in Oklahoma is only $31,600 (the lowest in the U.S., according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics), they haven’t had a raise in ten years, many teachers must take a second or third job in order to make ends meet, classrooms are overcrowded, and striking teachers have been using Facebook to post photos of everything from crumbling textbooks to broken chairs in classrooms. In fact, Laurissa Kovacs (a middle school teacher in McAlester, Oklahoma) received over $44,000 worth of donated […]

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1 Comment

  1. nexus5th on Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at 6:38 am

    Seems that Red States don’t want an educated population. Republican leadership knows that Uneducated citizens are easier to control….Vote Republican; it’s easier than thinking.