As a teacher, I do support higher teacher pay and support. However, not all teachers leave the profession due to low pay. Many are leaving due to the unbelievable workloads, lack of student discipline, and lack of support on a daily basis from administrators. There needs to be a solution that addresses all of these issues.
Can't they solve issues one at a time? Why do we need one solution for the dozens of issues? Let's resolve pay then move on to workload, then discipline, etc. There need to be as many solutions as there are issues. We're never going to solve any problems if we insist on solving all of them at the same time
@@bilbo_dragons Why not offer every solution at once - each solution is going to be higher taxes, more money for the administrative class and lower standards - we can do that all at once. Just take a crap load of money directly from hard working Americans and put it in Bernie's pocket and VOILA! Problems solved.
I can't believe the news and hospitals are guilty of telling the police department to f off and destroy homeland security and kill usa Americans in a clumsy psyops of drama and malprqctice tat lesbian men enjoy and tyrant women masculine high level human abuses. TECH ABUSE BY THE TECH CORPERATIONS IS SO HIDIOUSE BUT NOT AS BAD AS THE TRANSPORTATION STAFF. WHAT CAN BERNY SANDERS DO FOR THESE CRIMES OF UNREGULATIONS THAT PLACE AMERICANS IN DANGER AT BIOTERRIST LEVELS OF THE SKIN THE BRAIN AND ORGANS THATS WORSE THEN WORLD WAR TWO!??? THERES SOME CRAZY LUNATICS. I DONT THINK THE MILATRY WILL PERFORM AND THEN POLICE DEPARTMENT IS CORRUPT AND THE NEWS IS STUPID AND HELL BENT WITH MENTAL ILLNESS. HOMELAND SECURITYAND PRIVATE SECTORS HAS BEEN #INVADED OVER AND OVER WITH CASULTIES AS THE AMERICAN STURCTUR3S ARE BEING DESTROYED BY #TERROIST.
It is not always a discipline issue, but a child lacking needs that aren't being met. A special needs child being punished more for something they can't control is deplorable and something we have been trying to move away from. Ohio has been taking steps to up discipline but failing to acknowledge their lack of understanding and putting it solely on the child to fix themselves. How f-up is that? I would not be supporting that or funding private charter schools that support it. It's disgusting. Did everyone forget that these religious schools started as a means to destroy a whole culture? That over 500 children were found buried in areas in Canada where those reform schools were during those times? I will never support going back to that, and everyone needs to be aware of those atrocities that also happened here in the US on our own soil. I was lucky, my Grandma and her fellow classmates never met that fate but they did lose their culture that was systematically stolen from them in the name of religion and control. We need to be better and learn from our past. Good teachers don't rely on hurting others but uplifting others and show they can be better and do better. Be the example not drill it into them.
As a teacher in The Netherlands, I am so shocked that teachers in the US have to pay for the educational materials in their class. That is very strange to me.
Yes ! It varies but typically teachers will pay for: books for students, pencils, paper, book shelves, rocking chair, rug that students gather on, bulletin board materials, posters, electric pencil sharpener, laminator, colored ink, classroom printer, crayons, glue, hand sanitizer, Kleenex, disinfectant spray/wipes, broom, hand sanitizer, paper towel, snacks. Schools are relying on parents to send their children to school at the beginning of the school year with materials … however in less fortunate areas students may not come prepared with supplies and the school may not provide these supplies! Teachers are then forced to purchase what is needed so that students are able to learn and complete basic assignments.
@@YTuser874 That is very kind of teachers in these areas, but (from my cultural perspective) an absolute disgrace that the government (local, state or nation) does not provide these supplies instead, or give teachers a budget for it on top of their pay. Of the list above, here we would possibly pay for the rocking chair, because a nice desk chair is provided, so a rocking chair is nice but not necessary. All the rest I would 100% expect to be supplied by the school.
It's true I used to work at Walmart and the teachers would stock up on paper pencils ect because many parents couldn't and others wouldn't buy the kids the basic supplies but the school will not reimburse them. It is so bad even though I was poor too and had a bad job I felt sorry for the teachers!
Most teachers make a hundred dollars least then I made part time in 1995 and 50 dollars less the I mad teaching in 83...my pay was 100 and 125 per half day ..😮sad but true also less Americans are college educated..
It's not so much that schools make teachers buy their own materials, it's that the school flat out says "we can't afford to pay for notebooks/textbooks/pencils/etc" as if they expect the teacher to just function without it. Also in low income areas, parents either can't or won't buy their child materials. So when it comes to teachers having to buy materials for their own classes, it's borne more out of empathy and a desire to not have their classes suffer due to reasons that the child has no control over.
@xgx899 thats sad 😢 that you have been misinformed to believe in the wrong things. He literally talks about everything crisis american ate facing government overspending, education, military etc.
I don't hear him speaking about the rigged elections, the corrupt DoJ or government propaganda being pumped out through the government-controlled media - I just hear Bernie volunteering other people's money to solve problems he has correctly identified, but doesn't understand.
There is no incentive to teach. The pay is crap, the parents are difficult to deal with, the students are out of control and there is no support from the administrators.
A certain writer (A.P. Chekhov) has written "Fools like to teach, intelligent people like to study". This is not always true, but it certainly applies to the majority of the teachers I came across as a student.
@@youtubesucks1499 When I was teaching, the only joy was to direct my graduate students to realize and exceed their full potential. But that was only possible by carefully selecting just a few of them. In large undergraduate classes with curriculum prescribed by committee, it was joyless mass production, complete with grade inflation, student evaluation forms, and deans pandering to students. For high-school teachers it is, probably, worse.
Students are not held responsible for their actions. Students cuss out teachers and return to class from speaking with administrators with a snack. Administrators will blame you for student behaviors and teachers are constantly gaslighted until you don’t care or quit.
@@Chulitatr Like they said early on, it's in admin. We hire out more administrative positions, but not teachers. Additionally, once you've been in education for a little while (teacher here) you'll quickly realize that every five years or so, there's someone new who has the "solution," and that solution usually lines the pockets of million dollar companies. My personal least favourite right now is Edmentum, which is currently eating off the corpse of the vague "if you're grading for completion, you're grading for behavior, and you can't do that" idea that's been proliferated over the past two decades or so. It's the only thing I heard in teaching school, and it's pure shite.
I work in the public school system. There is a problem with student violence, and lack of parent support. They side with their child. 😢 It needs to change for our children.
Parents can't find time to spend with children daily so just trying to be the brrrread winner, because we need🎉food and a roof and we can just pay for them now we are also the blame for not supporting teachers, I just stating the problem stems from not being able to support families. The issue starts with the over greed of all companies and then we watch corruption from all other agencies we must deal with that first
Most teachers I know quit because of student behavior. The schools can’t be fixed unless we address the fact that, right now, kids often have more authority and power in the classroom than teachers - and they know it.
This is why I have been teaching abroad for the last 10 years and will continue to do so; excellent healthcare, school pays my rent and utilities, 2 flights home each year, 60 paid days off, affordable city life.
Mr. Pondiscio’s statement, “Universities are more concerned with professional disposition and theory rather than preparing teachers for the classroom,” summed up my thoughts exactly during my first years of teaching. I thought to myself, not one paper I wrote, prepared me for this class. I speak the truth, had it not been for this one college professor that actually brought hands on curriculum into the classroom I would not have learned how to work with certain assessments. In addition, I leaned on my skills, growing up as an inner city child, how to support my inner city students when it pertained to their social and emotional development. I wish colleges would focus more on what is going on in the classroom and preparing teachers for that rather than theory. I appreciate history however I would rather focus on what needs to be done in the classroom because teachers have now become counselors, social workers, and in many cases parents to our students. I really appreciate someone pointing that out.
Teacher prep programs are an absolute joke. They need to be completely dismantled. The useful parts could be distilled down to a semester. What really matters is content knowledge, time in the classroom and a halfway decent mentor teacher.
As an elementary school teacher I have to teach kids to read but I didn't learn how to do that in my education program in university. Same with teaching math. It was all theoretical. Useless waste of 2 years (after a 4 year degree) and lots of money in tuition. I felt completley unprepared for the actual job. The practicums helped but it's quite different when you're the one in charge.
I have a master’s in education working as a substitute. Definitely a waste of time and money!! Can do it so much faster other ways…. Huge money grab…. Sad for education on all levels
I just finished my first year of teaching in the US and I'm done. Compared to where I taught previously (China, South Korea), teaching in the US is a nightmare. Teaching here has nothing to do with education or academics, but managing student behavior.. Still, the parents were the worst of it. I had a parent screaming in my face in the first month, because I informed them that day we did not have a conference scheduled and they would need to schedule it with me. That same parent even followed me to my car after I'd come back from a sick break, because the class had missed 1 assembly. Nothing like that ever happened when I taught abroad. Abroad, teachers are respected. I even had FREE HOUSING in China and South Korea. In the US, I can't even afford rent. In South Korea, I had a pension from my first day. In Hawai'i, my school gave me a paper my first day saying they pay 0% into my 401k for the first 10 years I work for them. The way teachers are treated in the US, by the DOE, staff, parents, and students is an embarrassment.
Teachers should make no less than 100,000 per year. Their value should be reflected in their pay. It would also make the field more competitive, drawing in high quality educators.
the issue in the US is that teaching is not a high status job, I have no doubt a pay increase would be good, but the biggest issue is that too many people don´t give teacher´s the respect they deserve. It´s not just pay, it´s that they are increasingly very micromanaged, many parents don´t have any respect for how difficult the job is and how hard it can be to control a room of teenagers. There´s also much less of a culture of accountability than there was, teachers increasingly get blamed for behaviour problems in school. Now sometimes the teacher could have handled it better, but it should always be on the kids to behave. We´ve lost that now.
@@Minimmalmythicist Increasing their pay recognizes the level of respect that should be demanded by the position. That's part of why it should be raised...
The problem is their value is not measurable. Unless you want to use student achievements to define their values - which will tell how bad of the teachers they are, so probably not.
@MichaelLoutris Ya I know. The party is just running on all his ideas but doing it half ass. They don't even know how to articulate the good they are doing it seems. It's like they were given all the answers for a test they didn't study for. And they only kind of know the answers.
That is why DNC didn't want him in 2016 or at any point. Both parties protect the Oligarch's no matter how the sheeple vote. It's just political theater and has been for many decades now.
Thank you Senator Bernie Sanders for speaking on behalf of teachers. We need better pay for teachers. We are definitely overworked, underpaid and most definitely not appreciated. And still we try really hard to help our students be the BeST they can be. Students most definitely should be held accountable for their actions, and parents also need to be better involved in their child's educational and social life. I am a retired teacher, and I still love to teach, so I do work as a "substitute". I would like parents to volunteer in their child's school and see what really goes on. Especially in a public high school. They would be appalled. Nothing will change until everyone is involved in their child's education and actually be IN THE SCHOOL, especially the lawmakers. They make the "rules" and have never taught. Be blessed.
Yup. I am burned out. Retiring early. Student behavior and excessive work load have damaged my mental and physical health. Turning it over to the younger generation.
How fortunate for you to have the option to retire early with a pension because you're tired of working 🙄. You're welcome. Signed us taxpayers who don't get to start collecting a welfare check at a mere 55 years old 🙄
Yes I incourage my daughter to quit cause her physical and mental health are detoriating she lost weight and she hss no time for socisl life stressed all the time. Sometimes she comes homes very upset from student and parent’s behavior. So sad about the whole situation.
I wish the general population was allowed to come and teach for a week (that would include all the planning). Especially the ones who complain about teachers.
All administrators should have to work in the schools one week a month. Not just walk /standaround either. They need to be assigned to a classroom each visit and WORK with the teacher to help the kids.
Mr Pondiscio, said it perfectly: " .... why do good teachers leave primarily it's not the pay student behavior is out of control creating intolerable classroom conditions ..." Thank you Mr Pondiscio for each one of your words regarding this issue!
It's not the salary for me, it's the workload! I work 60+ hours per week as a special education teacher. It's affecting my health and no amount of money is worth that! I'm not sure how much longer I can do it. Before someone says that I get summers off, I only get two weeks off this summer.
Good point; how can you simplify your classroom tasks so that your after school work: grading papers, preparing lessons, calling parents can be shorter?
@fredwelf8650 You are correct; a lot of those things you mentioned take place after school hours, but writing IEPs is a huge portion of a special education teachers job. It usually takes place in the evenings and on weekends for most teachers. An IEP can take anywhere from 4 - 8 hours or more to write, and then you have to conduct the meeting and finalize everything. I'm not the only special education teacher with this complaint. The workload is not sustainable long-term. The only teachers that I know that aren't super stressed are the ones cutting corners.
I really can’t stand it when teachers like myself say, it’s not the money. Please stop saying that! It’s definitely the money with everything else!!! If teachers keep saying it’s not the money, they’ll never pay us what we’re worth. I can’t pay my mortgage!! Stop saying it’s not the money!!!! We spent four plus years in school just like any other profession. We should get paid accordingly if not more…we shape the people who become lawyers, doctors, senators and so forth. We deserve more pay so we can take care of our bills, mental health and our families. There’s no other profession dealing with other people’s children with multiple behaviors issues. Imagine that!! We have families just like everyone else. STOP SAYING IT’S NOT THE MONEY!!! It is plus more!! Annoyed!!
@@natachaCB I'm sorry that you're annoyed, but be annoyed at the system not me... Take your anger out on them! AND who's to say that I am just like you? There are a lot of factors at play and not everyone is in the same situation and not everyone cares about the same things. I can only speak for myself and you speak for yourself. Of course money is a factor, almost everyone in this country deserves to make more money than they do right now, but it is definitely not MY number one reason for thinking about leaving the profession; it's not even my second reason... More like my third! Sadly, my teacher salary is the MOST money that I have ever made, so for ME... It is not about the money! At age 45, I changed careers to become a teacher in 2019. I have a bachelor's degree in business and went back to college to earn my master's in special education. The path that led me to become a special education teacher is surely different than yours. Money has never been a priority for me in my entire life and not because I was born into money or anything like that, but because I value other things besides money like being a mother and my time. Time equals freedom to me, but money makes me feel like a slave to the system. I have got a taste of having more money with my current teaching job and if I have to work 60 hours a week at this stress level, I don't want it! AND no, I am not married; I do not have a husband to fall back on. I am just good at handling my money and do not live beyond me means. Not to say that you aren't, but everyone's situation is different. So, I'll speak my truth and you can speak to yours! Good luck!!!
@@lwad3128 I understand your point base on your truth. My mindset about this is anyone who pays to get a college education should be able to pay for their basic needs. In my opinion, it is fundamentally wrong to not pay people for what they’re worth. For example, I have been teacher of the year twice. I am given the most difficult students every single year . With God’s help, I am able to produce amazing results. It isn’t right to applaud my performance and yet not compensate it. Yes, I love my students, but I also would like to be able to take care of my own family becauseI love them too . Both can be true! We live in a society that demands money the minute you step out of bed. It is the reality. Mind you, I’m not even speaking on the extra 15 or so hours due to massive stress and workload. I’m not asking to move heaven and earth, just give me what I’m worth and value what I do. I’m not only annoyed when teachers say they don’t do it for the money, but also at the system. It’s equal annoyance! And I truly live within my means and it’s still hard because you can only stretch the dollar so much.
Thank you, Bernie 💗 You're one of a kind. As a daughter of a teacher/principal, I've always asserted that teachers are our second parents, we owe them so much yet, like you said, they're incredibly underappreciated, from the government all the way down. Keep fighting for us 💪
Thank you all for this wonderful meeting. I'm a retired teacher. I believe Billie Holiday said it best, " A person has to have a little love in their life, and a little food in their belly, before they'll listen to anybodys sermon on how to behave."
It is true that many of our students come from dysfunctional and traumatic home lives, but it does not mean that we should allow these students to traumatize students & staff and to cause dysfunction in classrooms - which IS currently happening in the districts that have the most teacher turnover. WE ARE NO LONGER ALLOWED TO DISCIPLINE STUDENTS - that is the issue! Schools are UNSAFE because of this. I have been a teacher for 23 years in Title 1 schools. I saw a stark decline around 2010, halfway through my experience. Our students are not lacking resources - our students are lacking an orderly and safe environment and teachers' hands are tied in providing this.
They are most definitely lacking resources. At least, round my way. Community resources like healthcare, child care, housing, etc. You said they come from dysfunctional and traumatic homes. Try to step outside yourself for a minute. A focus on punishment will do nothing but cause animosity; I’m sure they get enough at home. When someone acts out, they likely feel hurt and unheard. When you punish them, it just starts a retaliatory cycle. If you are the adult, you must be the example. You must regulate your emotions. You actually have to be the bigger person, and that’s a lot of teacher’s problems. A lot of them need counseling or something, because they don’t actually know how to regulate their emotions and they end up antagonizing the students. I likely wouldn’t like your class. You have to be willing to understand people if you want to teach them; it’s a privilege. Do *you* want someone you didn’t ask telling you what to do? They have to want to learn from you, and they won’t if you’re just another shitty teacher that doesn’t give a fuck about them fr. Don’t teach to feel better about yourself, teach because you are a servant of man.
@@MamaJaydeare you a teacher? A child should have some respect for their teacher like we do for a president or leader, and as a person regardless. Mutual respect.
@@MamaJaydeYour attitude, and people with an attitude like yours, are a huge part of the problem. Just because people love children, work with children and want to make a difference doesn't mean they should have to put up with rude and disrespectful behaviour. I am not the reason for the kid's bad home lives and I am trying my best to make a positive contribution and I don't deserve to be shit on. The other students in the class don't deserve to be traumatized by others bad behaviour and do deserve to have a positive learning enviornment.
children you described should be confined to special classes so that their behavior did not disrupt those children who can learn and strive for excellence. Education starts with discipline.
I dedicated 20 years of my life studying the math framework while teaching math and leading teams of people at every grade level first thru eighth grade. This year while leading my math department, I requested for respect and empathy to be shown to the teachers in our department after five department chairs before me had resigned due to degrading communication. By year end, all math classes were wiped off my schedule and my department chair position removed in front of a campus of one thousand students and staff. The public school system is at an all time low. I love teaching and never once complained about my work load or my salary. I was grateful for every opportunity in front of me to learn about how people learn. I stand here today as veteran math teacher who developed and implemented an intervention system this year that brought every failing math student to proficiency. I am now no longer a math teacher after serving students in the same district for 20 years simply because I tried to help boost the morale of my team. This system is a Titanic about to sink.
Thank you for your service. Do you have an email contact because I would love to learn how you implemented that intervention system and what it consisted of. It's not just pay, workload, but the disrespect of teachers and the profession as a whole.
The argument that children aren't learning has been made for decades. Pay teachers a living wage and give them support for those students that have learning challenges. Where is the study to show how the effects of the use of phones, tablets and other screens on a child's attention span? Why continually blame teachers when the conditions under which they work has so drastically deteriorated? I retired after teaching for 20 years and would not become an educator under today's present conditions.
It’s the fact that districts spend millions on crap curricula and ask teachers to teach them with fidelity. The testing culture doesn’t promote real learning just test readiness. The tests are rigged and the scoring process isn’t standardized.
PLEASE familiarize yourself with the EXTENSIVE work of social psychologist, Jonathan Haidt (The Coddling of the American Mind, The Righteous Mind, etc.) His latest work, "The Anxious Generation" explores the very concerning issues resulting from 'the rewiring of childhood'. I don't know anyone who has dug deeper than Haidt into the phenomenon of children/screens. He cites sources up the yahoo and does lots of his own research. He ALSO provides a few Rx's for the problem. ALL his books are fascinating! You can also find plenty of interview videos, etc. here on yt.
I'm trying to leave the classroom now, after 20 years of teaching. And I don't intend on returning for those very reasons. Most urban schools where teachers even make decent money after giving a good part of their working lives are trauma inducing imo.
Thank you, Teachers and Paraprofesionals! Unions are not the problem. Parents who want to be involved will be. Shame on those playing politics with these professionals and decent wages.
I am an American who has lived in USA and Mexico. Recently lost my wonderful husband of 60 years.I am 80 and mother of 5 successful Women and grandmother of 11 grandchildren and one great grandchild.Values and integrity,creativity need to be instilled since pre kindergarten. I have been active in Scouting,Junior Achievement,Children hospital,Cancer ,Blind,Stroke …but teaching is the best. We need well paid good teachers that have experienced it all. School does not finish when you are 18!,, life goes on and we all are capable of so much more. Bernie is a fighter and it is unbelievable to hear about lack of funding!! My international experience has reconfirmed every time that the we need help explain to our citizens the importance of Education as a right and a way to financially solve our issues.
That is already happening. My school district administrators take trips to the Philippines every year to interview and hire teachers. They can’t find American teachers to work for current pay.
Didn't get through the whole video but I'm going to imagine that student behavior was probably not addressed at all as one of the reasons that teachers leave the profession. Don't get me wrong the increase in pay and reduction in the workload is a huge plus but the teacher shortage won't be fully fixed until the elephant in the room is addressed.
If the lack of discipline in schools is not addressed, this will not solve the problem. The reality is, no matter how much you raise salaries, people can still make as much or more in a career where they will NOT have to deal with out of control student behavior with no support or consequences from administration. I have colleagues leave over the past couple of years because of this problem.
School discipline is a touchy issue because the problem at its roots stems from parenting or lack thereof. Parenting has been boiled down to exhausted and permissive parents who choose to let their child do whatever they want if it means they don't have to deal with the stress of actually raising them. You've probably heard of the so-called "i-pad kids" who are given a tablet the second they begin to make a fuss, because it's quicker and easier to shut the kid up with an i-pad than take the time to help them process and manage their emotions. It's an epidemic in American households, and that lack of social skills and emotional regulation doesn't magically cure itself when kids go to school. As a result, in order to keep parents happy and the money flowing, administrations forbid discipline of any kind in schools, force teachers to simply pass the students along to the next grade without actually being able to teach them anything, and the students have zero consequences for any of their actions. As the famous phrase goes: "teachers are afraid of administration, administration is afraid of parents, parents are afraid of kids, and kids aren't afraid of anything."
@@mustbtrouble It will not help A LOT. People can still make more at jobs where they don’t have to deal with the other issues in schools. Teachers at my school have left education over the past two years. None of them left because of pay.
Not necessarily true, as they may need to pay for additional schooling to be able to start other careers. Also teachers, like me, who are many years in would basically have to start over at the low end of the salary for that job
Student behavior is horrendous, many parents don't give a damn about it, and admins fail to stand up for staff, encouraging bad behavior and bad parenting. I know that from being in classrooms for eight years.
It costs more than a years salary to become a teacher, then while you are barely making ends meet you are also buying supplies for your classroom. I really wanted to become a teacher but can't afford it.
Nice to hear a politician fight for educators!!!! Bush's goal before he left office was to aide in privatizing education with "No child left behind". My mother is a retired teacher. I am a teacher! She is the first educator I heard speak on the ills of "no child left behind". They know that those who can afford alternative forms of learning will. They know exactly what kids will be educated publicly. Calculated. Title 1 educator and PROUD. Go GIT EM' Bernie!!!!!!❤🎉
The two biggest problems facing education today are ineffective curriculum which do not teach students fundamental skills and ineffective discipline policies.
Well, Mr. Pondoscio, I agree about the many hats. I didn't go to school to pack wounds, be a counselor, or even a SWAT member, but yet, as a teacher, I have to train every year on things that are not in my career plan. Plus, how well can I actually pack a gunshot wound or put on a tourniquet after watching a 1-hour video? And if I get something wrong, I can face charges?
Thank you Bernie! I have been teaching in Florida for 24 years. My salary has not kept pace with inflation. I also have to work for Instacart and Uber Eats to make ends meet. Sen. Cassidy- teachers do NOT have hidden agendas in our classroom.
@@colettehernandezsumner4118 Teachers are no longer teaching, they are activist indoctrinating students. They are worthless. No surprise parents are sending their children to charter schools.
@@youtubesucks1499 God this is so stupid. Teachers don't have time for this stuff. Do you know how I know it's the media creating this non-existent issue? I know a principal who was attacked by a parent for critical race theory... I live in Australia. I have friends who believe kids are being taught critical race theory... and that we do all this gay stuff with kids. My response is to pass them the national curriculum and point to where it is ... but they never do. They just keep parroting the idiots in the media who make money through outrage.
I'm sorry, but all the Board Certified teachers in the world won't stop a kid from bringing a gun to school or from kicking a security guard after a mob has beat that guard to the ground or from beating a teacher until she suffers a detached retina in her eye - all things I have seen in the school where I teach. We have disruptive students who have over 50 office referrals within the first half of the school year, yet still receive the same 1-day in-school suspension consequence and are returned into the classroom to keep disrupting the next day. This is a toxic environment that makes it impossible to teach or learn within. THIS is why teachers are leaving the profession.
Wow... I've been working as a custodian for almost 10 years ... we are underpaid and under understood we are a lot of thr time thr backbone of all classified over arching staff needs and public needs . This is the first rep I've ever heard talk about us . Thanks Bernie
For me, it’s not the pay, it’s the complete lack of disrespect. Parents do not support us, and we are dictated, wet, and how to teach everyone blames us for every single problem in society we cannot fix everything and trying to completely exhausting and soul crushing. I work in an affluent area and the parents expect 24 seven child services. It is unsustainable.
I can't believe the news and hospitals are guilty of telling the police department to f off and destroy homeland security and kill usa Americans in a clumsy psyops of drama and malprqctice tat lesbian men enjoy and tyrant women masculine high level human abuses. TECH ABUSE BY THE TECH CORPERATIONS IS SO HIDIOUSE BUT NOT AS BAD AS THE TRANSPORTATION STAFF. WHAT CAN BERNY SANDERS DO FOR THESE CRIMES OF UNREGULATIONS THAT PLACE AMERICANS IN DANGER AT BIOTERRIST LEVELS OF THE SKIN THE BRAIN AND ORGANS THATS WORSE THEN WORLD WAR TWO!??? THERES SOME CRAZY LUNATICS. I DONT THINK THE MILATRY WILL PERFORM AND THEN POLICE DEPARTMENT IS CORRUPT AND THE NEWS IS STUPID AND HELL BENT WITH MENTAL ILLNESS. HOMELAND SECURITYAND PRIVATE SECTORS HAS BEEN #INVADED OVER AND OVER WITH CASULTIES AS THE AMERICAN STURCTUR3S ARE BEING DESTROYED BY #TERROIST.
I lasted one year in an affluent school. The numbers of emails I received about their poor little darlings. My kid's school will jump on any parent who's emailing teachers too much. Parents of high needs kids... go to town with daily emails to keep teachers up to date. If your kid is normal, more than 2 emails a term and you're getting a call from the principal to back off. Parents don't like the principal but they don't understand she has the best teachers because she protects them from parents.
Senator, thank you for conducting this hearing. I was a public high school teacher in Texas for 20 years, and at the end of the twentieth year, I was laid off and told they did not have enough kids enrolled in my CTE classes. As a veteran teacher, Texas Education Agency requires the district reassign or change campuses for the teacher and also allow time for processing the resignation (I was told to have it ready the next day). They refused ADA (ADHD) accommodations I asked for, denied my daughter a free and public education, I only had 3.5 years left to retire, and lost my income (which was pretty decent), and insurance for my daughter and I. I’m good at what I do, I love the kids, I continued to learn daily with my kids and on my own, opened a school store with the kids, and secured a leadership scholarship for my kids, all in one year in a new district that became my last district. I lost autonomy but did not lose my integrity. I’m saddened at the lack of respect for teachers as experts in their field; the reason we were hired was due to our expertise. Class sizes are way too large, and classroom management is difficult with no support. I’m writing a memoir exposing many illegal and unethical practices I witnessed and was a victim of in the 20 years I showed up for my kids. Please follow me @notalkingbook on Instagram. I hope to have a publishing contract by the end of summer. Birdie C
I worked at a small rural high school/middle school that had a population just over 600 students. They had a principal and three assistant principles which is insane. That was close to $500,000 in salaries.
@@DisgruntledUSA Yep, and all that money could have gone toward more teachers to reduce class sizes, which has been shown to be the #1 most effective change to improve learning outcomes
Some of these over-paid administrators need to start TEACHING during the day. And I'm not talking about a light weight elective class. Real CONTENT that's formally state tested.
I can't imagine anything changing. As it is now, administration and students are making it impossible for teachers to do their jobs. Children don't want to learn, and administration prohibits teachers from failing students because it wants to push as many students through the system as possible whether or not the students have learned anything. We're currently heading into a system that pushes quality and experienced teachers out so that they can hire young inexperienced teachers which they can pay bare minimum and receive no push-back from.
Federal minimum 👏 Inact laws to punish kids who are violent in classroom. Principals are letting these kids get away with too much. Teachers are becoming babysitters . Ban cell phones in classrooms.
Ban cell phones for these babies period They DO NOT HAVE THE MATURITY TO HANDLE THE BULLYING THE MAKIGNANT POLITICAL PROPAGANDA, THE CORPORATE PROGAGANDA, AND THE ADDICTIVE ALGORITHMS THAT KILL ATTENTION SPANS AND LEARNING POTENTIAL
To be fair, as a teacher in Australia for these kids... and a foster carer for one... punishment doesn't actually improve things. My current foster kid was expelled from two schools and had 30+ suspensions... at age 8. At age 8 he went to a new school where they created a rule where he was allowed to walk out of his class and go talk to the deputy at any point that he was getting angry. He is now fully engaged, gets glowing reports and is just a normal kid in the classroom. All it took was admin who had the resources and training to support their teachers.... and two years. It's never a quick fix but it's worthwhile. (Oh... it costs about $30,000 in resources a year to offer him this support... much cheaper than prison which is where he would have been) Also helped that he was the only kid in his class with extreme behaviours. When you concentrate all the behaviours in one school ... ie... through ghettos... you make it impossible to help. There's a maximum of three high beahviours in a class of 30 before it's unteachable. Australia has the phone ban too... too bad parents ignore it. My boy is one of the only ones who doesn't take his phone to school.
I’ve noticed Sen. Cassidy fusses about Bernie having chaired the hearings he has so far and now Sen. Cassidy is fussing about Bernie not having this hearing sooner. I myself appreciate all the work Bernie does and every hearing he has chaired has been important.
For those that complain about teachers, I heard a quote once that I always come back to: A teacher's work environment is a student's learning environment. Kids, and teachers, deserve a better system.
How dare any senator say they are spending too much!!! Spending has NEVER caught up with the actual needs of schools! I keep buying materials for my students so don’t tell me funding is adequate.
The motif of inadequate funding was pervasive throughout the hearing: teachers are often underpaid, the work conditions are often poor, and the available resources are often minimal. If anything was lacking in the hearing it was the connection between teacher certification processes, including college debt, and the classroom.
The lower half of your students who are uneducable don’t need “materials”, they need jobs as trades apprentices. And to no longer have over-schooling inflicted upon them.
@@marcmeinzer8859 Unfortunately, No Child Left Behind has been misinterpreted and it has meant that you can’t fail a child. Meanwhile, you still have parents that believe if the kid eeks out a passing grade, then they are college material and you aren’t allowed to have real conversations about what the child can be better at.
@@docsmith9915 I taught for 8 years and have nothing but contempt for middle class douchebags who tell their kids if they don’t go to college they’ll be unemployable. So the kids go to open admissions state universities and flunk out within two quarters. Then instead of enlisting to get trained as air traffic controllers or nuclear reactor operators they get jobs as city service department workers either collecting trash or filling potholes working in neighborhoods where they couldn’t possibly afford to buy a house.
Those school leaders arent even concerned about the children's reading levels, they're concerned about how they appear in the eyes of the public council. -A.
Support staff and bus drivers need more pay. You have parents who can't control their kids while driving 3 yet we expect bus drivers to drive safely and manage behaviors at the same time. Behavior is the biggest reason teachers are quitting, though. (and the abuse from certain parents)
I love teaching students who want to learn. You can pay me $1 million a year but if you dont make the schools a proper and SAFE workplace for me I will NOT return to the classroom. Its all about discipline, discipline discipline! Work environment and workload is archaic and dismal. Lots of educrats making high salaries while the real workers (classroom teachers) are marginalized, pigeonholed and demonized. The public schools in my district are nothing more than pipelines to prisons. I do not feel SAFE, supported or respected.
Tank you Bernie, you're still fighting the good fight. I think he's the only politician that I've ever heard address this issue and doing in such a spot on way. This coming from a teacher who has two years left before retirement, will spend her own money on supplies, gets treated like a child by administrators that don't know what they are doing. and hopes she will not get hit by a student. God Bles you Mr. Sanders.
Its not the pay..we are overworked, admin and more and more out side classroom positions are getting funded with little results, while teachers are drowning in the classroom. Admin should be evaluated by all staff members not by someone from the district that visits the school twice a year if that. I will retire earlier than anticipated, my mental health is more important.
That second senator totally misses the point. We do need to course correct as a country, but good luck doing that when the average teacher is going to college so that they can make half of what they could make elsewhere. Stop saying that throwing money at the problem won’t solve anything when you turn around and fund billions into national security and the military.
I think the problem with funding is more how the US has a weirdly localised funding system for schools, compared to other first world countries. Public schools in fairly wealthy towns are often really well equipped, but in poorer neighbourhoods, they´re really struggling. It´s also that the US has lots of really counterproductive policies, i,e No Child left behind means schools get financial penalties for poor results, and in a poor area it´s obviously much harder to get good results than in a wealthy, stable one.
One reason teachers leave is that classes are extremely overcrowded. I.E. : some teachers have over 150 students a DAY- often 35-40 students in classes- usually the arts and sports. In classes these large it is nearly impossible to give each student the individual attention they need. Also, teachers burn out with classes this size.
I graduated HS in 09. I started hearing about schools getting funding based off test scores. Aka, inner city schools get minimal funding. Inner city schools were closed and then moved to the suburbs, which then drops those scores/funding. Schools then start to "Teach the test" versus normal courses
Is this true? This is probably why this last school my child was at was passing her and giving her good grades even though she wasn't passing tests and wasn't completing homework assignments. She had an IEP and they didn't give a f about her, just the scores. Now it makes sense why they were just passing her
Thank you for fighting for us Bernie. We need to get private interests (testing, EdTech, boxed curriculum) out of public schools. Spend that money on increasing salaries (especially for support staff) and hiring more teachers and support. We need help and we know how to do our jobs. We need to DIVEST from the education business machine.
Higher pay may not change some outcomes, Mr. Pondiscio, but it sure would help. A love of students is admirable until you can't afford to take care of your own kids or pay for medical bills. There are many benefits teachers could receive like free healthcare and tax breaks, yet we are asked to put our family on hold while taking care of many kids.
"School Choice" is just a code-word for funneling taxpayer dollars into private schools who do NOT have to take children with disabilities, etc, as they are not required to accommodate them and they can discriminate along other grounds, such as religious grounds. The equivalent is. "I don't like public parks, so can you subsidize me going to a country club?" But, in general, our teachers are overworked, screamed at for things they don't do (CRT, because that's law school level shit) and oh no, a rainbow flag so the marginalized and often demonized LGBTQ community feels safer and more at home. The refusal to teach actual history, like, black wall street, the fact that it was burned down. If it makes you uncomfortable, good. It should. It's a difficult topic, and middle schoolers/high schoolers should be taught that, the trail of tears, the holocaust. In the end, our teachers are just not treated well, nor paid well. Large class sizes, lack of school supply resources, low pay.
Yes! My son was in private school 1st grade we spent 3 hours on homework the teacher called him “stupid” and the school offered to bus him to public school for reading & math & then bus him back to the private school for art & extra circulars. There is no school choice when all the choices are not good
I witnessed a teacher of mine being worn out by the end of the day due to disruption in the classroom by some of her students. I brought treat bags filled with school supplies and little toys and their behavior changed. None of her students were held back because I came around twice to three times a year to check on the students and the teacher. They enjoyed the fact that I was a former student of their teacher. Also, on another note, it should be required on their supply list, to have enough hygiene products for their monthly cycle in their school locker. Too many girls are missing school and class time because of their needs in that area.
Thank goodness that most parents aren’t like that lady. She is part of why people want to leave the profession when they are accused of all the fake culture war lies she is pushing. Teachers want your kid to learn, so get out of your own way, lady.
Thank you Mr. Sanders, as a teacher I have to say the biggest deterrent to education is the cell phone followed closely by parents that believe that school is a waste of time, best evidence being those absences referenced. So many issues to be addressed, lowering the bar for expectations being the third issue, student failure and the governments punishment against that is the main cause of the lowering of those expectations.
Nationally, house prices have doubled (doubled) in the past four years. This makes it impossible for many teachers to buy a house. And renting requires a roommate. Housing is a basic need. Many students have better housing than their teachers. Let's get this wage thing fixed. Also, I've been teaching twenty years, but cannot afford the transition licensing programs. In my state, the programs continue to add classes, and cost upward of 15k. I already have a large portion of my bachelor degree loan left. It would be irresponsible to take more debt, especially knowing that my wage would not be enough to pay it off in a timely manner. Yes, let's see what can be done to get states behind a "grow your own" program. I'm extremely dedicated to my students, but need my country to be behind me and all other dedicated teachers in America.
Yes! There is no teacher shortage in this country. We have highly qualified teachers that have left the feild. It is a shortage of pay, support, supplies, respect and being treated as a professional. Most teachers have multiple jobs or a spouse who can support their family because we can’t do it on a teachers salary. At some point we put our own families first and get a job that pays better and is less stress & less hours.
The teacher compensation for the amount of schooling that is required to become a certified teacher is similar to lawyers and doctors, but they are not paid enough. The guy who said that paying teachers more will not help is not a teacher right now, and he didn’t even have a real college in education major to be able to say they don’t prepare teachers properly. If a teacher has to be on financial assistance from the same government that governs their paychecks is so literally crazy.
As a retired teacher, I couldn’t recommend that job to anyone in this country. Every teacher in the country should walk off the job right now and never go back.
I will be retiring in the next 5 years from teaching, after almost 40 years. My son is about to graduate with a BBA (I have beyond a Master’s degree) and he will make at least twice as much as I make HIS FIRST year out of college. I am happy for my son, but this is not okay. Teaching is a 24/7 job during the school year. We do get a break over summer, but we still think a lot about what we want to do when school starts again. What a society pays for demonstrates its values. All billionaires had many teachers who believed in them. We need to do better in America.
Teachers are extremely important, and I can name at least 10 teachers throughout my time in high school alone that have SIGNFICANTLY CHANGED MY LIFE FOR THE BETTER. They deserve to be paid VERY WELL.
In US, school funding comes from local taxes, meaning lowest funding in poorest neighbourhoods. In Canada, every student is funded equally from larger tax base. Teacher unions are strong and teachers can make $100,000/year. I had to earn two degrees to be certified for high school teaching (BA and B.Ed) and now teach university (have Masters and a PhD). We still have issues with under-funding, more challenging work conditions and classroom over-crowding, etc. (complex reasons) but much less than the States. We also don't have the same safety issues as have gun control.But have same issues with being required to play more roles with high rates of behaviour issues, learning disabilities, ADHD, mental health issues, ESL, etc. and need more support from administration in holding students accountable for their work/behaviour. As for reading levels, screen culture is working strenuously against this no matter the teaching.
When children are treated as cash cows by schools, their attendance doesn't seem to matter as much in the eyes of school administration as long as they are a number in an already overcrowded and underserved classroom.-A.
I teach because it's a natural universal priority. This world can't be properly maintained without EVERYBODY not just the children, being thoroughly assessed and educated without stereotypical biases and demographically targeted disruptions that ensure setbacks and performance failures in the underprivileged.-A.
I've been secular homeschooling my 2 children since 2021. I completely support our public schools but each of my boys needed something that our school couldn't provide. My oldest is super smart, the teachers would send home harder work for me to teach at home because they didnt have the time. As a 5th grader he just finished Algebra 1. My youngest has dyslexia and the school tried but just couldnt provide him the resources he needed. As a 1st grader he still couldn't read, despite even my efforts at home. Now he has weekly tutoring with a specialist, at great cost to us, and is making huge progress. Smaller classroom and more support for teachers to support the diverse needs our children is what we need. Also many of our schools have referendums for new fancy sports facilities, but never seem to have enough to hire more teachers and pay our teachers and support staff what they deserve.
It amazes me how unhinged the last witness was. We're in more trouble than i thought if she's representative of your average concerned parent in America.
She is terse and fast-talking but her main point that administrator’s priorities are indicated by how they budget, not by what they say in policy documents or school codes.
She was extremely nervous, watch her body language and the back of her chair, but she was intelligent, very informed on the subject matter, and advocating hard for something she believes in whole-hardly. I think she should have paused and taken a deep breath once or twice to slow herself down, but otherwise I applaud her courage. Speaking in front of Congressional leaders is not easy. Could any of you done better?
@@CatCaretakerIDI had to rewatch her speech to make sure we were even talking about the same person. Are you talking about Ms. Neily, the mother who thinks teaching social acceptance is why students' grades are in decline? Yes, she used statistics in her argument, but never drew a connection between them and her conclusion. You should have realized how unserious she is by the time she mentioned "woke kindergarten."
Big surprise that Louisianna doesn't want to 'throw more money' at the problem. What are they.... 42nd in the nation for education? Has it gone down further?
It is a shame. Teachers work before work, at work and after work. They are under paid and can't make it through the summer without making ends meet with a summer job. Teachers are respected and disrespected. Nurses, social workers, psychologist, TA(paras), lunchroom staff, all underpaid.
As a teacher, I do support higher teacher pay and support. However, not all teachers leave the profession due to low pay. Many are leaving due to the unbelievable workloads, lack of student discipline, and lack of support on a daily basis from administrators. There needs to be a solution that addresses all of these issues.
Can't they solve issues one at a time? Why do we need one solution for the dozens of issues? Let's resolve pay then move on to workload, then discipline, etc. There need to be as many solutions as there are issues. We're never going to solve any problems if we insist on solving all of them at the same time
@@bilbo_dragons Why not offer every solution at once - each solution is going to be higher taxes, more money for the administrative class and lower standards - we can do that all at once. Just take a crap load of money directly from hard working Americans and put it in Bernie's pocket and VOILA! Problems solved.
I can't believe the news and hospitals are guilty of telling the police department to f off and destroy homeland security and kill usa Americans in a clumsy psyops of drama and malprqctice tat lesbian men enjoy and tyrant women masculine high level human abuses. TECH ABUSE BY THE TECH CORPERATIONS IS SO HIDIOUSE BUT NOT AS BAD AS THE TRANSPORTATION STAFF. WHAT CAN BERNY SANDERS DO FOR THESE CRIMES OF UNREGULATIONS THAT PLACE AMERICANS IN DANGER AT BIOTERRIST LEVELS OF THE SKIN THE BRAIN AND ORGANS THATS WORSE THEN WORLD WAR TWO!??? THERES SOME CRAZY LUNATICS. I DONT THINK THE MILATRY WILL PERFORM AND THEN POLICE DEPARTMENT IS CORRUPT AND THE NEWS IS STUPID AND HELL BENT WITH MENTAL ILLNESS. HOMELAND SECURITYAND PRIVATE SECTORS HAS BEEN #INVADED OVER AND OVER WITH CASULTIES AS THE AMERICAN STURCTUR3S ARE BEING DESTROYED BY #TERROIST.
It is not always a discipline issue, but a child lacking needs that aren't being met. A special needs child being punished more for something they can't control is deplorable and something we have been trying to move away from. Ohio has been taking steps to up discipline but failing to acknowledge their lack of understanding and putting it solely on the child to fix themselves. How f-up is that? I would not be supporting that or funding private charter schools that support it. It's disgusting. Did everyone forget that these religious schools started as a means to destroy a whole culture? That over 500 children were found buried in areas in Canada where those reform schools were during those times? I will never support going back to that, and everyone needs to be aware of those atrocities that also happened here in the US on our own soil. I was lucky, my Grandma and her fellow classmates never met that fate but they did lose their culture that was systematically stolen from them in the name of religion and control. We need to be better and learn from our past. Good teachers don't rely on hurting others but uplifting others and show they can be better and do better. Be the example not drill it into them.
Also, absent parenting is crippling kids with issues.
As a teacher in The Netherlands, I am so shocked that teachers in the US have to pay for the educational materials in their class. That is very strange to me.
Yes ! It varies but typically teachers will pay for: books for students, pencils, paper, book shelves, rocking chair, rug that students gather on, bulletin board materials, posters, electric pencil sharpener, laminator, colored ink, classroom printer, crayons, glue, hand sanitizer, Kleenex, disinfectant spray/wipes, broom, hand sanitizer, paper towel, snacks.
Schools are relying on parents to send their children to school at the beginning of the school year with materials … however in less fortunate areas students may not come prepared with supplies and the school may not provide these supplies! Teachers are then forced to purchase what is needed so that students are able to learn and complete basic assignments.
@@YTuser874 That is very kind of teachers in these areas, but (from my cultural perspective) an absolute disgrace that the government (local, state or nation) does not provide these supplies instead, or give teachers a budget for it on top of their pay. Of the list above, here we would possibly pay for the rocking chair, because a nice desk chair is provided, so a rocking chair is nice but not necessary. All the rest I would 100% expect to be supplied by the school.
It's true I used to work at Walmart and the teachers would stock up on paper pencils ect because many parents couldn't and others wouldn't buy the kids the basic supplies but the school will not reimburse them. It is so bad even though I was poor too and had a bad job I felt sorry for the teachers!
Most teachers make a hundred dollars least then I made part time in 1995 and 50 dollars less the I mad teaching in 83...my pay was 100 and 125 per half day ..😮sad but true also less Americans are college educated..
It's not so much that schools make teachers buy their own materials, it's that the school flat out says "we can't afford to pay for notebooks/textbooks/pencils/etc" as if they expect the teacher to just function without it. Also in low income areas, parents either can't or won't buy their child materials. So when it comes to teachers having to buy materials for their own classes, it's borne more out of empathy and a desire to not have their classes suffer due to reasons that the child has no control over.
Even if you don’t agree with Bernie, he is such a patriot. He is the only one who tries to speak about the actual concerns of the American people.
American people is not a homogeneous group. He does not speak about my concerns, for example.
@xgx899 thats sad 😢 that you have been misinformed to believe in the wrong things. He literally talks about everything crisis american ate facing government overspending, education, military etc.
@@onemanonevote4223 Are you really unsophisticated enough to deny my point that Americans are not a homogeneous group? 😂😂😂
I don't hear him speaking about the rigged elections, the corrupt DoJ or government propaganda being pumped out through the government-controlled media - I just hear Bernie volunteering other people's money to solve problems he has correctly identified, but doesn't understand.
@@xgx899 You were unsophisticated enough to park your comment here to begin. You asked for it.
There is no incentive to teach.
The pay is crap, the parents are difficult to deal with, the students are out of control and there is no support from the administrators.
A certain writer (A.P. Chekhov) has written "Fools like to teach, intelligent people like to study". This is not always true, but it certainly applies to the majority of the teachers I came across as a student.
@@xgx899 Name ONE reason to teach?
@@youtubesucks1499 When I was teaching, the only joy was to direct my graduate students to realize and exceed their full potential. But that was only possible by carefully selecting just a few of them. In large undergraduate classes with curriculum prescribed by committee, it was joyless mass production, complete with grade inflation, student evaluation forms, and deans pandering to students. For high-school teachers it is, probably, worse.
@@xgx899 Yeah, I get you.
Your students are drones.
You did the best you could under a crappy system.
@@youtubesucks1499 I did not say it. Humans are never drones.
Students are not held responsible for their actions. Students cuss out teachers and return to class from speaking with administrators with a snack. Administrators will blame you for student behaviors and teachers are constantly gaslighted until you don’t care or quit.
Yes, and they get to go around the School watering the plants!! Please make it make sense!!🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
WHERE'S THE LOTTERY FUNDS FOR EDUCATION BEEN GOING FOR THE PAST 50 DAMN YEARS? NOT BEING PUT IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. WHERE'S the money?
@@Chulitatr Like they said early on, it's in admin. We hire out more administrative positions, but not teachers. Additionally, once you've been in education for a little while (teacher here) you'll quickly realize that every five years or so, there's someone new who has the "solution," and that solution usually lines the pockets of million dollar companies. My personal least favourite right now is Edmentum, which is currently eating off the corpse of the vague "if you're grading for completion, you're grading for behavior, and you can't do that" idea that's been proliferated over the past two decades or so. It's the only thing I heard in teaching school, and it's pure shite.
@@ChulitatrIt’s sad they “gamble” with children’s education…
@@sawyerk641 That's why they're not getting paid the wages they deserve.
I work in the public school system. There is a problem with student violence, and lack of parent support. They side with their child. 😢 It needs to change for our children.
By violence I also mean verbal abuse from students.
Parents can't find time to spend with children daily so just trying to be the brrrread winner, because we need🎉food and a roof and we can just pay for them now we are also the blame for not supporting teachers, I just stating the problem stems from not being able to support families. The issue starts with the over greed of all companies and then we watch corruption from all other agencies we must deal with that first
Courts imposed parenting classes if the kid keeps getting into trouble.
Or stop having kids you can't technically raise??🤷🏾♀️
Facts
Thank you Bernie!
Most teachers I know quit because of student behavior.
The schools can’t be fixed unless we address the fact that, right now, kids often have more authority and power in the classroom than teachers - and they know it.
True
@@Cris-hk4cn And those parents don't care or encourage their kids "cute" behavior.
Facts
This is why I have been teaching abroad for the last 10 years and will continue to do so; excellent healthcare, school pays my rent and utilities, 2 flights home each year, 60 paid days off, affordable city life.
Where do you teach? Whst do you teach?
Same. Moved 2 years ago.
Please let me know which countries your recommend. I would deeply appreciate the direction that you can provide.
Where do you teach?
Yes please tell us!
Get ‘em Bernie
Mr. Pondiscio’s statement, “Universities are more concerned with professional disposition and theory rather than preparing teachers for the classroom,” summed up my thoughts exactly during my first years of teaching. I thought to myself, not one paper I wrote, prepared me for this class. I speak the truth, had it not been for this one college professor that actually brought hands on curriculum into the classroom I would not have learned how to work with certain assessments. In addition, I leaned on my skills, growing up as an inner city child, how to support my inner city students when it pertained to their social and emotional development. I wish colleges would focus more on what is going on in the classroom and preparing teachers for that rather than theory. I appreciate history however I would rather focus on what needs to be done in the classroom because teachers have now become counselors, social workers, and in many cases parents to our students. I really appreciate someone pointing that out.
Teacher prep programs are an absolute joke. They need to be completely dismantled. The useful parts could be distilled down to a semester. What really matters is content knowledge, time in the classroom and a halfway decent mentor teacher.
As an elementary school teacher I have to teach kids to read but I didn't learn how to do that in my education program in university. Same with teaching math. It was all theoretical. Useless waste of 2 years (after a 4 year degree) and lots of money in tuition. I felt completley unprepared for the actual job. The practicums helped but it's quite different when you're the one in charge.
I have a master’s in education working as a substitute. Definitely a waste of time and money!! Can do it so much faster other ways…. Huge money grab…. Sad for education on all levels
If Universities teach and show what it is really like to be a classroom teacher, they’d leave the teaching program instantly and switch majors.
Nailed it
I just finished my first year of teaching in the US and I'm done. Compared to where I taught previously (China, South Korea), teaching in the US is a nightmare.
Teaching here has nothing to do with education or academics, but managing student behavior.. Still, the parents were the worst of it. I had a parent screaming in my face in the first month, because I informed them that day we did not have a conference scheduled and they would need to schedule it with me. That same parent even followed me to my car after I'd come back from a sick break, because the class had missed 1 assembly. Nothing like that ever happened when I taught abroad.
Abroad, teachers are respected. I even had FREE HOUSING in China and South Korea. In the US, I can't even afford rent. In South Korea, I had a pension from my first day. In Hawai'i, my school gave me a paper my first day saying they pay 0% into my 401k for the first 10 years I work for them.
The way teachers are treated in the US, by the DOE, staff, parents, and students is an embarrassment.
My experience,exactly. That is,why I chose to teach overseas
That all sounds objectively terrible. However, the 401k stipulation made me gasp. 10 years? Ridiculous
Teachers should make no less than 100,000 per year. Their value should be reflected in their pay. It would also make the field more competitive, drawing in high quality educators.
the issue in the US is that teaching is not a high status job, I have no doubt a pay increase would be good, but the biggest issue is that too many people don´t give teacher´s the respect they deserve.
It´s not just pay, it´s that they are increasingly very micromanaged, many parents don´t have any respect for how difficult the job is and how hard it can be to control a room of teenagers. There´s also much less of a culture of accountability than there was, teachers increasingly get blamed for behaviour problems in school. Now sometimes the teacher could have handled it better, but it should always be on the kids to behave. We´ve lost that now.
@@Minimmalmythicist Increasing their pay recognizes the level of respect that should be demanded by the position. That's part of why it should be raised...
@@ciara6359 I agree with that
@@ciara6359 The point I´m making in addition though is there is a persistent culture of disrespect and increasing the salary alone won´t stop it.
The problem is their value is not measurable. Unless you want to use student achievements to define their values - which will tell how bad of the teachers they are, so probably not.
Bernie would have obliterated Trump on that debate stage last night.
@MichaelLoutris Ya I know. The party is just running on all his ideas but doing it half ass. They don't even know how to articulate the good they are doing it seems. It's like they were given all the answers for a test they didn't study for. And they only kind of know the answers.
The elites on both sides don't want that.
That is why DNC didn't want him in 2016 or at any point. Both parties protect the Oligarch's no matter how the sheeple vote. It's just political theater and has been for many decades now.
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@@kevinkruger6233 no he wouldn't.
All Sanders would say is tax the rich and healthcare is a human right.
Lol.
Thank you Senator Bernie Sanders for speaking on behalf of teachers. We need better pay for teachers. We are definitely overworked, underpaid and most definitely not appreciated. And still we try really hard to help our students be the BeST they can be. Students most definitely should be held accountable for their actions, and parents also need to be better involved in their child's educational and social life. I am a retired teacher, and I still love to teach, so I do work as a "substitute". I would like parents to volunteer in their child's school and see what really goes on. Especially in a public high school. They would be appalled. Nothing will change until everyone is involved in their child's education and actually be IN THE SCHOOL, especially the lawmakers. They make the "rules" and have never taught. Be blessed.
Yup. I am burned out. Retiring early. Student behavior and excessive work load have damaged my mental and physical health. Turning it over to the younger generation.
WHERE'S THE LOTTERY FUNDS FOR EDUCATION BEEN GOING FOR THE PAST 50 DAMN YEARS? NOT BEING PUT IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. WHERE'S the money?
@@tori2380-g2gWHERE'S THE LOTTERY FUNDS FOR EDUCATION BEEN GOING FOR THE PAST 50 DAMN YEARS? NOT BEING PUT IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. WHERE'S the money?
I taught elementary for 7 yrs. I'm done with it.
How fortunate for you to have the option to retire early with a pension because you're tired of working 🙄. You're welcome. Signed us taxpayers who don't get to start collecting a welfare check at a mere 55 years old 🙄
Yes I incourage my daughter to quit cause her physical and mental health are detoriating she lost weight and she hss no time for socisl life stressed all the time. Sometimes she comes homes very upset from student and parent’s behavior. So sad about the whole situation.
Have the senators take over the classroom for a week. Then they will understand.
WHERE'S THE LOTTERY FUNDS FOR EDUCATION BEEN GOING FOR THE PAST 50 DAMN YEARS? NOT BEING PUT IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. WHERE'S the money?
I wish the general population was allowed to come and teach for a week (that would include all the planning). Especially the ones who complain about teachers.
YES!!!!!
Yes, please.
All administrators should have to work in the schools one week a month. Not just walk /standaround either. They need to be assigned to a classroom each visit and WORK with the teacher to help the kids.
Mr Pondiscio, said it perfectly: " .... why do good teachers leave primarily it's not the pay student behavior is out of control creating intolerable classroom conditions ..."
Thank you Mr Pondiscio for each one of your words regarding this issue!
But better pay would help
He is the only one addressed the PRIMARY REASON WHICH IS BEHAVIOR.
An Educated Populace is a Country's greatest resource. America is falling behind. Look at the Adults out there.
I support hiring more teachers, increasing their pay, and decreasing classroom size. 1 teacher and 25-30 students in a classroom is ridiculous.
It's not the salary for me, it's the workload! I work 60+ hours per week as a special education teacher. It's affecting my health and no amount of money is worth that! I'm not sure how much longer I can do it. Before someone says that I get summers off, I only get two weeks off this summer.
Good point; how can you simplify your classroom tasks so that your after school work: grading papers, preparing lessons, calling parents can be shorter?
@fredwelf8650 You are correct; a lot of those things you mentioned take place after school hours, but writing IEPs is a huge portion of a special education teachers job. It usually takes place in the evenings and on weekends for most teachers. An IEP can take anywhere from 4 - 8 hours or more to write, and then you have to conduct the meeting and finalize everything. I'm not the only special education teacher with this complaint. The workload is not sustainable long-term. The only teachers that I know that aren't super stressed are the ones cutting corners.
I really can’t stand it when teachers like myself say, it’s not the money. Please stop saying that! It’s definitely the money with everything else!!! If teachers keep saying it’s not the money, they’ll never pay us what we’re worth. I can’t pay my mortgage!! Stop saying it’s not the money!!!! We spent four plus years in school just like any other profession. We should get paid accordingly if not more…we shape the people who become lawyers, doctors, senators and so forth. We deserve more pay so we can take care of our bills, mental health and our families. There’s no other profession dealing with other people’s children with multiple behaviors issues. Imagine that!! We have families just like everyone else. STOP SAYING IT’S NOT THE MONEY!!! It is plus more!! Annoyed!!
@@natachaCB I'm sorry that you're annoyed, but be annoyed at the system not me... Take your anger out on them! AND who's to say that I am just like you? There are a lot of factors at play and not everyone is in the same situation and not everyone cares about the same things. I can only speak for myself and you speak for yourself. Of course money is a factor, almost everyone in this country deserves to make more money than they do right now, but it is definitely not MY number one reason for thinking about leaving the profession; it's not even my second reason... More like my third! Sadly, my teacher salary is the MOST money that I have ever made, so for ME... It is not about the money! At age 45, I changed careers to become a teacher in 2019. I have a bachelor's degree in business and went back to college to earn my master's in special education. The path that led me to become a special education teacher is surely different than yours. Money has never been a priority for me in my entire life and not because I was born into money or anything like that, but because I value other things besides money like being a mother and my time. Time equals freedom to me, but money makes me feel like a slave to the system. I have got a taste of having more money with my current teaching job and if I have to work 60 hours a week at this stress level, I don't want it! AND no, I am not married; I do not have a husband to fall back on. I am just good at handling my money and do not live beyond me means. Not to say that you aren't, but everyone's situation is different. So, I'll speak my truth and you can speak to yours! Good luck!!!
@@lwad3128 I understand your point base on your truth. My mindset about this is anyone who pays to get a college education should be able to pay for their basic needs. In my opinion, it is fundamentally wrong to not pay people for what they’re worth. For example, I have been teacher of the year twice. I am given the most difficult students every single year . With God’s help, I am able to produce amazing results. It isn’t right to applaud my performance and yet not compensate it. Yes, I love my students, but I also would like to be able to take care of my own family becauseI love them too . Both can be true! We live in a society that demands money the minute you step out of bed. It is the reality. Mind you, I’m not even speaking on the extra 15 or so hours due to massive stress and workload. I’m not asking to move heaven and earth, just give me what I’m worth and value what I do. I’m not only annoyed when teachers say they don’t do it for the money, but also at the system. It’s equal annoyance! And I truly live within my means and it’s still hard because you can only stretch the dollar so much.
Thank you, Bernie 💗 You're one of a kind. As a daughter of a teacher/principal, I've always asserted that teachers are our second parents, we owe them so much yet, like you said, they're incredibly underappreciated, from the government all the way down. Keep fighting for us 💪
Thank you all for this wonderful meeting. I'm a retired teacher. I believe Billie Holiday said it best, " A person has to have a little love in their life, and a little food in their belly, before they'll listen to anybodys sermon on how to behave."
It is true that many of our students come from dysfunctional and traumatic home lives, but it does not mean that we should allow these students to traumatize students & staff and to cause dysfunction in classrooms - which IS currently happening in the districts that have the most teacher turnover. WE ARE NO LONGER ALLOWED TO DISCIPLINE STUDENTS - that is the issue! Schools are UNSAFE because of this. I have been a teacher for 23 years in Title 1 schools. I saw a stark decline around 2010, halfway through my experience. Our students are not lacking resources - our students are lacking an orderly and safe environment and teachers' hands are tied in providing this.
They are most definitely lacking resources. At least, round my way. Community resources like healthcare, child care, housing, etc. You said they come from dysfunctional and traumatic homes. Try to step outside yourself for a minute.
A focus on punishment will do nothing but cause animosity; I’m sure they get enough at home. When someone acts out, they likely feel hurt and unheard. When you punish them, it just starts a retaliatory cycle. If you are the adult, you must be the example. You must regulate your emotions. You actually have to be the bigger person, and that’s a lot of teacher’s problems. A lot of them need counseling or something, because they don’t actually know how to regulate their emotions and they end up antagonizing the students. I likely wouldn’t like your class. You have to be willing to understand people if you want to teach them; it’s a privilege. Do *you* want someone you didn’t ask telling you what to do? They have to want to learn from you, and they won’t if you’re just another shitty teacher that doesn’t give a fuck about them fr.
Don’t teach to feel better about yourself, teach because you are a servant of man.
@@MamaJaydeare you a teacher? A child should have some respect for their teacher like we do for a president or leader, and as a person regardless. Mutual respect.
@@dreyddog19 how do you assume that respect is fostered?
@@MamaJaydeYour attitude, and people with an attitude like yours, are a huge part of the problem. Just because people love children, work with children and want to make a difference doesn't mean they should have to put up with rude and disrespectful behaviour. I am not the reason for the kid's bad home lives and I am trying my best to make a positive contribution and I don't deserve to be shit on. The other students in the class don't deserve to be traumatized by others bad behaviour and do deserve to have a positive learning enviornment.
children you described should be confined to special classes so that their behavior did not disrupt those children who can learn and strive for excellence. Education starts with discipline.
I dedicated 20 years of my life studying the math framework while teaching math and leading teams of people at every grade level first thru eighth grade. This year while leading my math department, I requested for respect and empathy to be shown to the teachers in our department after five department chairs before me had resigned due to degrading communication. By year end, all math classes were wiped off my schedule and my department chair position removed in front of a campus of one thousand students and staff. The public school system is at an all time low. I love teaching and never once complained about my work load or my salary. I was grateful for every opportunity in front of me to learn about how people learn. I stand here today as veteran math teacher who developed and implemented an intervention system this year that brought every failing math student to proficiency. I am now no longer a math teacher after serving students in the same district for 20 years simply because I tried to help boost the morale of my team. This system is a Titanic about to sink.
Thank you for your service. Do you have an email contact because I would love to learn how you implemented that intervention system and what it consisted of. It's not just pay, workload, but the disrespect of teachers and the profession as a whole.
The argument that children aren't learning has been made for decades. Pay teachers a living wage and give them support for those students that have learning challenges. Where is the study to show how the effects of the use of phones, tablets and other screens on a child's attention span? Why continually blame teachers when the conditions under which they work has so drastically deteriorated? I retired after teaching for 20 years and would not become an educator under today's present conditions.
It’s the fact that districts spend millions on crap curricula and ask teachers to teach them with fidelity. The testing culture doesn’t promote real learning just test readiness. The tests are rigged and the scoring process isn’t standardized.
PLEASE familiarize yourself with the EXTENSIVE work of social psychologist, Jonathan Haidt (The Coddling of the American Mind, The Righteous Mind, etc.) His latest work, "The Anxious Generation" explores the very concerning issues resulting from 'the rewiring of childhood'. I don't know anyone who has dug deeper than Haidt into the phenomenon of children/screens. He cites sources up the yahoo and does lots of his own research. He ALSO provides a few Rx's for the problem. ALL his books are fascinating! You can also find plenty of interview videos, etc. here on yt.
I'm trying to leave the classroom now, after 20 years of teaching. And I don't intend on returning for those very reasons. Most urban schools where teachers even make decent money after giving a good part of their working lives are trauma inducing imo.
Thank you, Teachers and Paraprofesionals! Unions are not the problem. Parents who want to be involved will be. Shame on those playing politics with these professionals and decent wages.
I am an American who has lived in USA and Mexico. Recently lost my wonderful husband of 60 years.I am 80 and mother of 5 successful Women and grandmother of 11 grandchildren and one great grandchild.Values and integrity,creativity need to be instilled since pre kindergarten. I have been active in Scouting,Junior Achievement,Children hospital,Cancer ,Blind,Stroke …but teaching is the best. We need well paid good teachers that have experienced it all. School does not finish when you are 18!,, life goes on and we all are capable of so much more. Bernie is a fighter and it is unbelievable to hear about lack of funding!! My international experience has reconfirmed every time that the we need help explain to our citizens the importance of Education as a right and a way to financially solve our issues.
Also I am a Stroke Survivor….
Thank God for Bernie Sanders! We need more like him. Excellent presentations by these educators.
That is already happening. My school district administrators take trips to the Philippines every year to interview and hire teachers. They can’t find American teachers to work for current pay.
Didn't get through the whole video but I'm going to imagine that student behavior was probably not addressed at all as one of the reasons that teachers leave the profession. Don't get me wrong the increase in pay and reduction in the workload is a huge plus but the teacher shortage won't be fully fixed until the elephant in the room is addressed.
If the lack of discipline in schools is not addressed, this will not solve the problem. The reality is, no matter how much you raise salaries, people can still make as much or more in a career where they will NOT have to deal with out of control student behavior with no support or consequences from administration. I have colleagues leave over the past couple of years because of this problem.
School discipline is a touchy issue because the problem at its roots stems from parenting or lack thereof. Parenting has been boiled down to exhausted and permissive parents who choose to let their child do whatever they want if it means they don't have to deal with the stress of actually raising them. You've probably heard of the so-called "i-pad kids" who are given a tablet the second they begin to make a fuss, because it's quicker and easier to shut the kid up with an i-pad than take the time to help them process and manage their emotions. It's an epidemic in American households, and that lack of social skills and emotional regulation doesn't magically cure itself when kids go to school. As a result, in order to keep parents happy and the money flowing, administrations forbid discipline of any kind in schools, force teachers to simply pass the students along to the next grade without actually being able to teach them anything, and the students have zero consequences for any of their actions. As the famous phrase goes: "teachers are afraid of administration, administration is afraid of parents, parents are afraid of kids, and kids aren't afraid of anything."
But raising salaries will help a lot.
@@mustbtrouble It will not help A LOT. People can still make more at jobs where they don’t have to deal with the other issues in schools. Teachers at my school have left education over the past two years. None of them left because of pay.
@@kcm7134 ok then don’t raise wages. you’re right🤡
Not necessarily true, as they may need to pay for additional schooling to be able to start other careers. Also teachers, like me, who are many years in would basically have to start over at the low end of the salary for that job
Student behavior is horrendous, many parents don't give a damn about it, and admins fail to stand up for staff, encouraging bad behavior and bad parenting. I know that from being in classrooms for eight years.
Thank you Bernie we definitely need more teachers and should get trained and paid more. Go public schools!🔥💚💙👍👍🏻👍🏽👍🏿
I weep tears of joy I am not a teacher in the USA. Was totally my dream as a child too.
It costs more than a years salary to become a teacher, then while you are barely making ends meet you are also buying supplies for your classroom.
I really wanted to become a teacher but can't afford it.
Nice to hear a politician fight for educators!!!! Bush's goal before he left office was to aide in privatizing education with "No child left behind". My mother is a retired teacher. I am a teacher! She is the first educator I heard speak on the ills of "no child left behind". They know that those who can afford alternative forms of learning will. They know exactly what kids will be educated publicly. Calculated. Title 1 educator and PROUD. Go GIT EM' Bernie!!!!!!❤🎉
The two biggest problems facing education today are ineffective curriculum which do not teach students fundamental skills and ineffective discipline policies.
@cj5848 I would add parents who don't care or defend their kids' misbehaviors.
We're engaged in a scorched Earth policy regarding children of the future.
Kaaaaa.....Meeeeee.......Haaaaa........Me........ Alright..... I'll behave.....
Thank you for your service Senator Sanders 🙏🏼♥️
THE INCREASE IN SPENDING GOES RIGHT BACK INTO PRIVATE COMPANIES (TESTING, CURRICULUM, EDTECH ETC).
Well, Mr. Pondoscio, I agree about the many hats. I didn't go to school to pack wounds, be a counselor, or even a SWAT member, but yet, as a teacher, I have to train every year on things that are not in my career plan. Plus, how well can I actually pack a gunshot wound or put on a tourniquet after watching a 1-hour video? And if I get something wrong, I can face charges?
Thank you Bernie!
I have been teaching in Florida for 24 years. My salary has not kept pace with inflation. I also have to work for Instacart and Uber Eats to make ends meet.
Sen. Cassidy- teachers do NOT have hidden agendas in our classroom.
@@kellybockholt5641 You absolutely do. LGBTQP and Critical Race Theroy
@youtubesucks1499 Teachers for the most part, don't want to address these issues.
@@colettehernandezsumner4118 Teachers are no longer teaching, they are activist indoctrinating students.
They are worthless. No surprise parents are sending their children to charter schools.
@@youtubesucks1499 God this is so stupid. Teachers don't have time for this stuff.
Do you know how I know it's the media creating this non-existent issue? I know a principal who was attacked by a parent for critical race theory... I live in Australia. I have friends who believe kids are being taught critical race theory... and that we do all this gay stuff with kids. My response is to pass them the national curriculum and point to where it is ... but they never do. They just keep parroting the idiots in the media who make money through outrage.
I'm sorry, but all the Board Certified teachers in the world won't stop a kid from bringing a gun to school or from kicking a security guard after a mob has beat that guard to the ground or from beating a teacher until she suffers a detached retina in her eye - all things I have seen in the school where I teach. We have disruptive students who have over 50 office referrals within the first half of the school year, yet still receive the same 1-day in-school suspension consequence and are returned into the classroom to keep disrupting the next day. This is a toxic environment that makes it impossible to teach or learn within. THIS is why teachers are leaving the profession.
Yup. PARENTS
Wow…. What city do you teach in?
@@jenniferhayes2206It's not just parents (even though they have A LOT to do with it, along with the surrounding community). Sometimes it's US.
Wow... I've been working as a custodian for almost 10 years ... we are underpaid and under understood we are a lot of thr time thr backbone of all classified over arching staff needs and public needs . This is the first rep I've ever heard talk about us . Thanks Bernie
For me, it’s not the pay, it’s the complete lack of disrespect. Parents do not support us, and we are dictated, wet, and how to teach everyone blames us for every single problem in society we cannot fix everything and trying to completely exhausting and soul crushing. I work in an affluent area and the parents expect 24 seven child services. It is unsustainable.
I can't believe the news and hospitals are guilty of telling the police department to f off and destroy homeland security and kill usa Americans in a clumsy psyops of drama and malprqctice tat lesbian men enjoy and tyrant women masculine high level human abuses. TECH ABUSE BY THE TECH CORPERATIONS IS SO HIDIOUSE BUT NOT AS BAD AS THE TRANSPORTATION STAFF. WHAT CAN BERNY SANDERS DO FOR THESE CRIMES OF UNREGULATIONS THAT PLACE AMERICANS IN DANGER AT BIOTERRIST LEVELS OF THE SKIN THE BRAIN AND ORGANS THATS WORSE THEN WORLD WAR TWO!??? THERES SOME CRAZY LUNATICS. I DONT THINK THE MILATRY WILL PERFORM AND THEN POLICE DEPARTMENT IS CORRUPT AND THE NEWS IS STUPID AND HELL BENT WITH MENTAL ILLNESS. HOMELAND SECURITYAND PRIVATE SECTORS HAS BEEN #INVADED OVER AND OVER WITH CASULTIES AS THE AMERICAN STURCTUR3S ARE BEING DESTROYED BY #TERROIST.
I lasted one year in an affluent school. The numbers of emails I received about their poor little darlings.
My kid's school will jump on any parent who's emailing teachers too much. Parents of high needs kids... go to town with daily emails to keep teachers up to date. If your kid is normal, more than 2 emails a term and you're getting a call from the principal to back off. Parents don't like the principal but they don't understand she has the best teachers because she protects them from parents.
Thank you, Senator Sanders!!! Our children deserve it!
Great job everybody, thanks for keeping it real Bernie❤❤❤ love you brother
Thank you Bernie
You are the role model we all need but other politicians don't want!❤
Senator, thank you for conducting this hearing. I was a public high school teacher in Texas for 20 years, and at the end of the twentieth year, I was laid off and told they did not have enough kids enrolled in my CTE classes. As a veteran teacher, Texas Education Agency requires the district reassign or change campuses for the teacher and also allow time for processing the resignation (I was told to have it ready the next day). They refused ADA (ADHD) accommodations I asked for, denied my daughter a free and public education, I only had 3.5 years left to retire, and lost my income (which was pretty decent), and insurance for my daughter and I. I’m good at what I do, I love the kids, I continued to learn daily with my kids and on my own, opened a school store with the kids, and secured a leadership scholarship for my kids, all in one year in a new district that became my last district. I lost autonomy but did not lose my integrity. I’m saddened at the lack of respect for teachers as experts in their field; the reason we were hired was due to our expertise. Class sizes are way too large, and classroom management is difficult with no support. I’m writing a memoir exposing many illegal and unethical practices I witnessed and was a victim of in the 20 years I showed up for my kids. Please follow me @notalkingbook on Instagram. I hope to have a publishing contract by the end of summer. Birdie C
One of the problems is that school districts throw way too much money at the top of the organizational chart
Never heard this criticism.
I worked at a small rural high school/middle school that had a population just over 600 students. They had a principal and three assistant principles which is insane. That was close to $500,000 in salaries.
@@DisgruntledUSA Yep, and all that money could have gone toward more teachers to reduce class sizes, which has been shown to be the #1 most effective change to improve learning outcomes
Class sizes are 1000% the problem
Some of these over-paid administrators need to start TEACHING during the day. And I'm not talking about a light weight elective class. Real CONTENT that's formally state tested.
Thank you, Senator Sanders!
❤❤thanks mr. Bernie, On the great people in front of them thanks again for you all
I can't imagine anything changing. As it is now, administration and students are making it impossible for teachers to do their jobs. Children don't want to learn, and administration prohibits teachers from failing students because it wants to push as many students through the system as possible whether or not the students have learned anything. We're currently heading into a system that pushes quality and experienced teachers out so that they can hire young inexperienced teachers which they can pay bare minimum and receive no push-back from.
Federal minimum 👏
Inact laws to punish kids who are violent in classroom.
Principals are letting these kids get away with too much.
Teachers are becoming babysitters .
Ban cell phones in classrooms.
Ban cell phones for these babies period
They DO NOT HAVE THE MATURITY TO HANDLE THE BULLYING THE MAKIGNANT POLITICAL PROPAGANDA, THE CORPORATE PROGAGANDA, AND THE ADDICTIVE ALGORITHMS THAT KILL ATTENTION SPANS AND LEARNING POTENTIAL
Principals hands are also tied.
To be fair, as a teacher in Australia for these kids... and a foster carer for one... punishment doesn't actually improve things. My current foster kid was expelled from two schools and had 30+ suspensions... at age 8. At age 8 he went to a new school where they created a rule where he was allowed to walk out of his class and go talk to the deputy at any point that he was getting angry. He is now fully engaged, gets glowing reports and is just a normal kid in the classroom. All it took was admin who had the resources and training to support their teachers.... and two years. It's never a quick fix but it's worthwhile. (Oh... it costs about $30,000 in resources a year to offer him this support... much cheaper than prison which is where he would have been)
Also helped that he was the only kid in his class with extreme behaviours. When you concentrate all the behaviours in one school ... ie... through ghettos... you make it impossible to help. There's a maximum of three high beahviours in a class of 30 before it's unteachable.
Australia has the phone ban too... too bad parents ignore it. My boy is one of the only ones who doesn't take his phone to school.
Boy, America really needs an Better Education.
Your post proves the point... It should be.... "A" better education.
@@ianturpin9180 "a" 🤭
Truth!!! America wants so desperately to be a 3rd world country it's pathetic....🙄🙄🙄🙄
@@ianturpin9180lol you assume that the erson is from the U.S.
I’ve noticed Sen. Cassidy fusses about Bernie having chaired the hearings he has so far and now Sen. Cassidy is fussing about Bernie not having this hearing sooner. I myself appreciate all the work Bernie does and every hearing he has chaired has been important.
WRONG, Senator Sanders - the #1 reason teachers are leaving is due to STUDENT BEHAVIOR and the lack of support in doing anything about this!
Listen to the whole thing
For those that complain about teachers, I heard a quote once that I always come back to: A teacher's work environment is a student's learning environment. Kids, and teachers, deserve a better system.
Teacher Arthur, you aré so right....and I am sure you are an excellent teacher. Thank you very much for your words so wise and warm
My second comment is that cell phone use in a classroom should be a top-level offense.
Brilliant work Senator Sanders. Inspirational.
How dare any senator say they are spending too much!!! Spending has NEVER caught up with the actual needs of schools! I keep buying materials for my students so don’t tell me funding is adequate.
Did you actually watch the video
The motif of inadequate funding was pervasive throughout the hearing: teachers are often underpaid, the work conditions are often poor, and the available resources are often minimal.
If anything was lacking in the hearing it was the connection between teacher certification processes, including college debt, and the classroom.
The lower half of your students who are uneducable don’t need “materials”, they need jobs as trades apprentices. And to no longer have over-schooling inflicted upon them.
@@marcmeinzer8859
Unfortunately, No Child Left Behind has been misinterpreted and it has meant that you can’t fail a child. Meanwhile, you still have parents that believe if the kid eeks out a passing grade, then they are college material and you aren’t allowed to have real conversations about what the child can be better at.
@@docsmith9915 I taught for 8 years and have nothing but contempt for middle class douchebags who tell their kids if they don’t go to college they’ll be unemployable. So the kids go to open admissions state universities and flunk out within two quarters. Then instead of enlisting to get trained as air traffic controllers or nuclear reactor operators they get jobs as city service department workers either collecting trash or filling potholes working in neighborhoods where they couldn’t possibly afford to buy a house.
Those school leaders arent even concerned about the children's reading levels, they're concerned about how they appear in the eyes of the public council. -A.
Support staff and bus drivers need more pay. You have parents who can't control their kids while driving 3 yet we expect bus drivers to drive safely and manage behaviors at the same time. Behavior is the biggest reason teachers are quitting, though. (and the abuse from certain parents)
I love teaching students who want to learn. You can pay me $1 million a year but if you dont make the schools a proper and SAFE workplace for me I will NOT return to the classroom. Its all about discipline, discipline discipline! Work environment and workload is archaic and dismal. Lots of educrats making high salaries while the real workers (classroom teachers) are marginalized, pigeonholed and demonized. The public schools in my district are nothing more than pipelines to prisons. I do not feel SAFE, supported or respected.
Tank you Bernie, you're still fighting the good fight. I think he's the only politician that I've ever heard address this issue and doing in such a spot on way. This coming from a teacher who has two years left before retirement, will spend her own money on supplies, gets treated like a child by administrators that don't know what they are doing. and hopes she will not get hit by a student. God Bles you Mr. Sanders.
Terrible spelling. Thank you and God bless you. Mom was a high school English teacher.
Its not the pay..we are overworked, admin and more and more out side classroom positions are getting funded with little results, while teachers are drowning in the classroom. Admin should be evaluated by all staff members not by someone from the district that visits the school twice a year if that. I will retire earlier than anticipated, my mental health is more important.
That second senator totally misses the point. We do need to course correct as a country, but good luck doing that when the average teacher is going to college so that they can make half of what they could make elsewhere. Stop saying that throwing money at the problem won’t solve anything when you turn around and fund billions into national security and the military.
I think the problem with funding is more how the US has a weirdly localised funding system for schools, compared to other first world countries. Public schools in fairly wealthy towns are often really well equipped, but in poorer neighbourhoods, they´re really struggling.
It´s also that the US has lots of really counterproductive policies, i,e No Child left behind means schools get financial penalties for poor results, and in a poor area it´s obviously much harder to get good results than in a wealthy, stable one.
Thank you for speaking up for us, Senator Sanders.
One reason teachers leave is that classes are extremely overcrowded. I.E. : some teachers have over 150 students a DAY- often 35-40 students in classes- usually the arts and sports.
In classes these large it is nearly impossible to give each student the individual attention they need.
Also, teachers burn out with classes this size.
Try 180 for middle school math 😅
I had 150 for my chemistry classes.
I graduated HS in 09. I started hearing about schools getting funding based off test scores. Aka, inner city schools get minimal funding. Inner city schools were closed and then moved to the suburbs, which then drops those scores/funding. Schools then start to "Teach the test" versus normal courses
Is this true? This is probably why this last school my child was at was passing her and giving her good grades even though she wasn't passing tests and wasn't completing homework assignments. She had an IEP and they didn't give a f about her, just the scores. Now it makes sense why they were just passing her
I Retired in December of 2021 after 28 years of Teaching!! I still have PTSD from my experience!!! 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
Thank you for fighting for us Bernie. We need to get private interests (testing, EdTech, boxed curriculum) out of public schools. Spend that money on increasing salaries (especially for support staff) and hiring more teachers and support. We need help and we know how to do our jobs. We need to DIVEST from the education business machine.
Higher pay may not change some outcomes, Mr. Pondiscio, but it sure would help. A love of students is admirable until you can't afford to take care of your own kids or pay for medical bills. There are many benefits teachers could receive like free healthcare and tax breaks, yet we are asked to put our family on hold while taking care of many kids.
"School Choice" is just a code-word for funneling taxpayer dollars into private schools who do NOT have to take children with disabilities, etc, as they are not required to accommodate them and they can discriminate along other grounds, such as religious grounds.
The equivalent is.
"I don't like public parks, so can you subsidize me going to a country club?"
But, in general, our teachers are overworked, screamed at for things they don't do (CRT, because that's law school level shit) and oh no, a rainbow flag so the marginalized and often demonized LGBTQ community feels safer and more at home.
The refusal to teach actual history, like, black wall street, the fact that it was burned down. If it makes you uncomfortable, good. It should. It's a difficult topic, and middle schoolers/high schoolers should be taught that, the trail of tears, the holocaust.
In the end, our teachers are just not treated well, nor paid well. Large class sizes, lack of school supply resources, low pay.
Are you a teacher?
10000% agree. Neily was so far off point and should not represent parents in this space
Yes! My son was in private school 1st grade we spent 3 hours on homework the teacher called him “stupid” and the school offered to bus him to public school for reading & math & then bus him back to the private school for art & extra circulars. There is no school choice when all the choices are not good
I witnessed a teacher of mine being worn out by the end of the day due to disruption in the classroom by some of her students. I brought treat bags filled with school supplies and little toys and their behavior changed. None of her students were held back because I came around twice to three times a year to check on the students and the teacher. They enjoyed the fact that I was a former student of their teacher. Also, on another note, it should be required on their supply list, to have enough hygiene products for their monthly cycle in their school locker. Too many girls are missing school and class time because of their needs in that area.
Thank goodness that most parents aren’t like that lady. She is part of why people want to leave the profession when they are accused of all the fake culture war lies she is pushing. Teachers want your kid to learn, so get out of your own way, lady.
Teachers aren’t leaving because of “fake culture war lies”. It’s pay and lack of discipline.
Teachers want our kids to be indoctrinated.
Thank you Bernie!!!!!!!!!!!!!❤
Thank you Mr. Sanders, as a teacher I have to say the biggest deterrent to education is the cell phone followed closely by parents that
believe that school is a waste of time, best evidence being those absences referenced. So many issues to be addressed, lowering the bar for expectations being the third issue, student failure and the governments punishment against that is the main cause of the lowering
of those expectations.
Nationally, house prices have doubled (doubled) in the past four years. This makes it impossible for many teachers to buy a house. And renting requires a roommate. Housing is a basic need. Many students have better housing than their teachers. Let's get this wage thing fixed.
Also, I've been teaching twenty years, but cannot afford the transition licensing programs. In my state, the programs continue to add classes, and cost upward of 15k. I already have a large portion of my bachelor degree loan left. It would be irresponsible to take more debt, especially knowing that my wage would not be enough to pay it off in a timely manner. Yes, let's see what can be done to get states behind a "grow your own" program.
I'm extremely dedicated to my students, but need my country to be behind me and all other dedicated teachers in America.
Yes! There is no teacher shortage in this country. We have highly qualified teachers that have left the feild. It is a shortage of pay, support, supplies, respect and being treated as a professional.
Most teachers have multiple jobs or a spouse who can support their family because we can’t do it on a teachers salary. At some point we put our own families first and get a job that pays better and is less stress & less hours.
Lord protect Bernie Sanders.
Lord protect US from Bernie Sanders...
Strong unions are needed. No working conditions were improved by begging on a doorstep.
Teachers have a union.
teachers unions ARE the problem, you nitwit. or did you not listen??
The teacher compensation for the amount of schooling that is required to become a certified teacher is similar to lawyers and doctors, but they are not paid enough.
The guy who said that paying teachers more will not help is not a teacher right now, and he didn’t even have a real college in education major to be able to say they don’t prepare teachers properly.
If a teacher has to be on financial assistance from the same government that governs their paychecks is so literally crazy.
As a retired teacher, I couldn’t recommend that job to anyone in this country. Every teacher in the country should walk off the job right now and never go back.
High pay, prestige and respect. It doesn't sound like too much to ask to educate the future generations.
I will be retiring in the next 5 years from teaching, after almost 40 years. My son is about to graduate with a BBA (I have beyond a Master’s degree) and he will make at least twice as much as I make HIS FIRST year out of college. I am happy for my son, but this is not okay.
Teaching is a 24/7 job during the school year. We do get a break over summer, but we still think a lot about what we want to do when school starts again. What a society pays for demonstrates its values. All billionaires had many teachers who believed in them. We need to do better in America.
Teachers are extremely important, and I can name at least 10 teachers throughout my time in high school alone that have SIGNFICANTLY CHANGED MY LIFE FOR THE BETTER. They deserve to be paid VERY WELL.
Former teacher here. Quit after 3 years. No way would I ever go back.
In US, school funding comes from local taxes, meaning lowest funding in poorest neighbourhoods. In Canada, every student is funded equally from larger tax base. Teacher unions are strong and teachers can make $100,000/year. I had to earn two degrees to be certified for high school teaching (BA and B.Ed) and now teach university (have Masters and a PhD). We still have issues with under-funding, more challenging work conditions and classroom over-crowding, etc. (complex reasons) but much less than the States. We also don't have the same safety issues as have gun control.But have same issues with being required to play more roles with high rates of behaviour issues, learning disabilities, ADHD, mental health issues, ESL, etc. and need more support from administration in holding students accountable for their work/behaviour. As for reading levels, screen culture is working strenuously against this no matter the teaching.
Teachers are my heroes. ❤
When children are treated as cash cows by schools, their attendance doesn't seem to matter as much in the eyes of school administration as long as they are a number in an already overcrowded and underserved classroom.-A.
I teach because it's a natural universal priority. This world can't be properly maintained without EVERYBODY not just the children, being thoroughly assessed and educated without stereotypical biases and demographically targeted disruptions that ensure setbacks and performance failures in the underprivileged.-A.
I've been secular homeschooling my 2 children since 2021. I completely support our public schools but each of my boys needed something that our school couldn't provide. My oldest is super smart, the teachers would send home harder work for me to teach at home because they didnt have the time. As a 5th grader he just finished Algebra 1. My youngest has dyslexia and the school tried but just couldnt provide him the resources he needed. As a 1st grader he still couldn't read, despite even my efforts at home. Now he has weekly tutoring with a specialist, at great cost to us, and is making huge progress. Smaller classroom and more support for teachers to support the diverse needs our children is what we need. Also many of our schools have referendums for new fancy sports facilities, but never seem to have enough to hire more teachers and pay our teachers and support staff what they deserve.
It amazes me how unhinged the last witness was. We're in more trouble than i thought if she's representative of your average concerned parent in America.
She has a real entitlement thing going on
She is terse and fast-talking but her main point that administrator’s priorities are indicated by how they budget, not by what they say in policy documents or school codes.
She was extremely nervous, watch her body language and the back of her chair, but she was intelligent, very informed on the subject matter, and advocating hard for something she believes in whole-hardly. I think she should have paused and taken a deep breath once or twice to slow herself down, but otherwise I applaud her courage. Speaking in front of Congressional leaders is not easy. Could any of you done better?
@@CatCaretakerIDI had to rewatch her speech to make sure we were even talking about the same person. Are you talking about Ms. Neily, the mother who thinks teaching social acceptance is why students' grades are in decline? Yes, she used statistics in her argument, but never drew a connection between them and her conclusion. You should have realized how unserious she is by the time she mentioned "woke kindergarten."
Unfortunately, entitled unhinged people are not rare.
Big surprise that Louisianna doesn't want to 'throw more money' at the problem. What are they.... 42nd in the nation for education? Has it gone down further?
😂😂😂😂 ignorance has no limits.
Oh, look! Someone who actually cares about our future. Thank you, Senator Sanders!
It is a shame. Teachers work before work, at work and after work. They are under paid and can't make it through the summer without making ends meet with a summer job. Teachers are respected and disrespected.
Nurses, social workers, psychologist, TA(paras), lunchroom staff, all underpaid.
Bernie.you.are.a.good.men.and.jesus,love,you.and.i.love.you.to,🌲🕊🙏🏹🌬🌹💖
There is no God. Human beings might love Bernie.
He is so wonderful and I'm so grateful somebody is starting to pay attention and care about our schools, teachers and our students.