WATCH: Teacher SCHOOLS Republican Arguing Against Raising Educator Pay
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- čas přidán 24. 06. 2024
- Utah teacher John Arthur absolutely schools Republican Senator Bill Cassidy in epic fashion. Arthur delivers a brilliant speech advocating for an increase in teacher salaries, destroys Senator Cassidy's absurd arguments against raising educator pay and so much more.
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“I’m not sure throwing money at the problem will fix it…” says the guy who votes for his own pay raises.
We’ve been throwing money at the NEA and the DoE for decades with diminishing returns. Where did that all that money go, scout?
@@latrinemarine826 Well for starters teacher pay is determined at the local level, so that blame can go to the state governments that refuse to give pay increases to teachers. My wife is a teacher and we live in Texas, teachers here haven't gotten a pay raise in years, school budgets haven't been increased since 2019. So districts across the state are closing campuses, which will only lead to even larger class sizes and less ti,e for teachers to spend with individual students. So yes, teachers need a pay increase and public school budgets need to keep up with the needs of the students. But I, sure you're fine with this because a less informed and less educated populace is more likely to vote for Republicans in elections and that's all you care about.
@@davidoliver62 Actually, thanks to progressive meddling in education, we are all stupider as a result. I’m perfectly okay raising teacher salary contingent on political neutrality in the classroom. Deal?
@@latrinemarine826 Teachers don't care about politics. All the things the right us complaining about is simply not actually happening in schools. Teachers don't have time for that nonsense, it's just made up by people on the right to scare people. Critical race theory is not and never has been taught in public schools. That is just a fact. Teachers aren't in school grooming kids to be gay. Mainly because that isn't how being gay works. The only indoctrination Being attempted in public schools is coming from all the states trying to force Christianity in the classrooms, but I'm, sure you have no issue with that since it's indoctrination you likely agree with. Regardless of how unconstitutional it is. Judgung by your screen name you either are or were a Marine, so I can only assume you support the Constitution. So, since none of the nonsense you are talking about is actually happening, then I'm glad we agree teachers should get paid.
@@latrinemarine826 You don't throw money at the NEA. That's a union, and the dues come out of teacher salaries. What diminishing returns? There are plenty of kids graduating and going on to jobs and universities. What this all comes down to is you getting info from right wing media and actually not knowing WTF is actually going on.
Teachers DO NOT prioritize political “agenda’s” while educating our students.
I can’t understand why anyone would believe that. We don’t have time to do that. We’re more concerned about teaching students critical thinking skills, reading and writing proficiency and proper etiquette.
Bravo to Mr. Arthur! 🎉
a senator that makes 6 figures and receives the best health care in the world and the best retirement (via kickbacks, insider trading, and lobbying) has the gall to push back against higher pay for teachers? what a jerk
What a jerk is putting it mildly
Obviously, Cassidy has never been in a classroom. Talking points, no real world evidence. Shameful.
And yet it's easier to shame... Than to fund....
Since when did Republicans need evidence. They ostracize and debase.
We need teachers like this more than Senators like that. Right?
Right!
Well said
I am a Ph.D. college professor.
And proud product of K-12 public schools.
Thank you America for your support of public education.
Former public school teacher here. Former Department Chair. Former sponsor of an after-school program. John Arthur is THE MAN. I don't know him but can tell you just from this short video that he embodies what public education is all about. Community. And elevating students. Teachers are ROCK STARS. Sadly, too many in the GOP are determined to damage public education and drain its coffers for their friends in the private sector. John Arthur is precisely the kind of professional we need to stop them. KEEP ON MARCHING, JOHN!
NOBODY can get anywhere today without a TEACHER. These front-line folks need to be paid better.
In 1977-78 I was a high school math teacher making $8700 a year. In 1979, I quit teaching and got a job working in private industry as a computer programmer. My annual salary increased to $18,900 a year and I got paid time and a half for overtime. Using the CPI inflation calculator:
$8700 a year would be equivalent to $37000 today.
$18,900 a year would be equivalent to $81,761 today.
I was the 5th math teacher to leave the school district in just two years.
When I see how Republican House and Senate politicians repeat their empty rhetoric denigrating the teachers of the US and forming astro turf partisan political organizations to attack the teachers, school boards, librarians, principals guidance counselors … I have to wonder why anyone remains a teacher. However, I am glad that there are teachers with the courage, conviction, and compassion to remain teachers. A teachers job is much harder today and they deserve every penny they are making. I believe they all should make more, we should have smaller class sizes, elementary schools should have more reading specialists so that reading problems can be identified early and students can be taught the skills they need to advance. The US should also have universal pre-school.
Of course, Republicans would rather criticize the schools with their empty and meaningless rhetoric of “CRT” and “wokism”. They really want to destroy public education and turn the system into a private corporation profit center. Then only those monied elite families would have the best education, while the majority would not be able to afford to pay for their child’s education. The “Voucher Programs” being pushed by republicans are designed to bleed public schools of the funds needed to run the schools. The vast majority of voucher money goes to families who already send their children to private schools. Many of those schools are unaffordable to the majority even with the voucher. Basically, the voucher programs are a public subsidy to the wealthy to help them pay for private school while taking that money from the public school.
Republicans don’t want to solve any school problems, they want to kill public education because the masses don’t deserve to be educated.
in addition..private schools can admit or exclude ANYONE THEY WANT. THEY ARE BRINGING BACK SEGREGATION BY ANOTHER NAME. IT STILL STINKS.
It's really to bad you never learned to spell google...
Here is what Republicans think of alternate school concepts
When a basic definition of each policy was provided, 79% of Black parents supported vouchers, 74% supported charter schools, and 78% supported open enrollment. Roughly three in four Black parents (78%) support education savings accounts, which are becoming increasingly popular across the country
Oops...that's right bp aren't really Republicans
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Educators and health care professionals should be the highest paying jobs in America!
Bro I was on conference call with this teacher. He knows what’s going on in schools. He gets it’s. These republicans never will.
Listen MAGA GOPs, reduce your salary and increase teachers. Besides you are not doing anything productive to help Americans.
Plus they made enough money through insider trading, they don't really need any salary from us.
Its simple, Teachers should make what Congressman and Legislatures make and they should make what teachers make.
I met Bill Cassidy when he was a new congressman, and I was a teacher in Louisiana. He should be the last person on the planet to listen to on education. He's a MAIN reason LA is 47 in education. He got his 30-year-old Nephew (with 2 years of teaching experience) installed as the principal of my H.S., he was totally unqualified. I taught for 12 years, no longer teach and no longer live in the shithole state of Louisiana
I have an aunt that's a retired elementary teacher and an uncle that's a retired principal in Colorado. They told their two kids they would pay for their education as long as they didn't go into teaching. I'd imagine teaching is a better profession in Colorado than Louisiana, which tells you how bad it is.
Mr Arthur is a perfect example of fine, smart upstanding teacher and democrat! We have all the Intellectuals who live in the real world and follow the rules! Maga republicans have lost their way - just look at who they worship 🙄
I heard a threat there from that Senator - "teach what we want you to or we will not fund your school."
The politician asks what’s wrong with education today? YOU BROKE IT!!! Teachers have not lost sight of their vision, YOU POLITICIANS make is teach to the test. Joy of teaching and joy of learning IS GONE! Add to that the blame, disrespect, and poor pay. Who would sign on to that?????
This teacher is an amazing communicator and the students in his classroom will benefit immensely.
Teachers HAVE NOT lost sight of their mission to educate children. What an a'hole.
A politician who is getting paid twice what most teachers get paid, who is part of a political system that gives itself annual pay increases no matter how unproductive they are, actually telling a teacher of the year that "I just don't see how we're going to fix the problem by throwing more money at it..", which is what special interest lobbyists do with politicians *EVERY DAMN DAY!!!*
Well said!
Can we cut cassidys pay down to teacher level please?
Mr. Arthur's words are wasted on that group of grifters. They don't understand anything that doesn't serve to get them re-elected to the gravy train.
Hopefully enough constituents will hear his words, and will want to hold their representatives in government accountable.
There's no place in our future for *this* GOP. They're hopelessly mired in their willful ignorance.
Certainly not in the future that reasonable people would want. But if things go badly in November, "our future" could be dominated by the destructive agenda of those like Senator Cassidy.
Sadly, politicians are making the argument that teachers have some political agenda. If I can just say as a 31 yr veteran teacher, nobody has time to add anything to the workload when half your kids have zero parental support. You are trying to make up for all the things that kids come to school not knowing. Lesson plans and resources and meetings and wiping your students tears and then your own. It’s a lot. I never thought of doing anything but making sure my students got my very best efforts so they would know they were worth my time and that they could achieve anything. I wanted them to believe they were the best and the brightest stars. I wanted to make a difference. You think teachers have time to think about ways to undermine or distort American history?! Really?!
thank you for your dedication. you are an honorable person. 😊
This is exactly why I get so incensed at the accusations leveled at teachers. The *only* "social agenda" I've ever heard a teacher pursuing is basic standards of civilized behavior - no hitting, no biting, share your toys, treat others the way you would like to be treated. Terrible, right? But elected officials and people who have never taught, and/or haven't stepped foot in a classroom in decades keep piling on time-consuming requirements so that if the teachers have a moment to cover actual subject matter material it's practically a miracle. -- Thank you for continuing to do what you do in the face of such egregious disrespect.
That is not the sound of a teacher who is trying grooming a child, who is teaching false facts, who is putting in time. That is the sound of an educated man who wants the best for kids and wants to keep educators in the classroom. Too bad we hear incorrect comments from politicians, many of whom do not even have their children in public schools.
Republicans don’t mind allowing Trump to get money for his grift , but for teachers … not a penny more !
Do politicians realize not everyone can just give themselves a raise?
Teachers deserve a pay raise. They educate our future leaders. God bless the teacher's
I’m wondering if Senator Cassidy asks the same question of his anti-education Republican colleagues when they go around voting themselves a pay raise in the most unproductive Congress in history?
Bravo.
Interesting (though inappropriate) choice of words by that guy against pay raises for teachers: "not throw more money at the problem".
Let's use them when tax cuts for the very rich are discussed.
"How did we get here?" We got here by defunding public education in favor of charter/private schools, vilifying teachers, and blaming it on the "liberals". We got here because Republicans put us here.
BINGO!
Schools are not broken. Politicians are broken. Open your eyes.
Brilliant comment!
Republicans love to talk about broken schools so that people think that schools are actually broken and then they stop trusting schools. An uneducated population is easier to control. Why do you think that the Republican voter is so easily controlled???
The problem is, if they give teachers a raise, that will attract better quality teachers who understand how to educate, which in turn makes students smarter and less likely to vote Republican.
--- Correct. Anti-intellectuals are. . . .
100%
The teacher should have asked the Senator why he keeps voting to increase his own salary
My eldest and youngest sons are both at university studying to become teachers. I must share this video with them. I know it will inspire them. It truly is a calling. I’m so proud of both of them.
Very cool to see my state’s Teacher of the Year in front of Congress!
If only the GOP would apply the same logic to educators as they do corporate executives. We would raise the bar for both.
They're funny, not ready to throw more money at a problem, but ready to throw more money at billionaires...
They should be paid at least as much as these do nothing politicians in D.C. VOTE BLUE 2024!
Blue balls see a doctor
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Where did he get his information from? Did he pull it out of his ass? My wife and all three of our kids are teachers. My wife is in an elementary school and the kids are high school teachers. Well, one did just leave teaching. None of them teach social issues. They teach the curriculum. If he thinks teachers are not, he is insane, ignorant, or lying. He needs to spend time in the classrooms and see what it is like. I honestly don't know why my wife and kids teach other than the fact they love the kids. And over the years, I have watched our Republican controlled state government try to destroy and dismantle the public educational system.
What a great teacher and spokesman.
What “negatively impacts” kids is having teachers who are paying for equipment out of their own meager salaries. Teachers should be paid MORE than people playing sport. Both my parents were teachers in another country & positively impacted THOUSANDS of people & the children they had who learned from what my parents taught them. Decades later I STILL have their ex-students telling me how much my parents impacted their lives by being great teachers.
Bravo. Standing ovation.
The stories my wife, an early childhood teacher, shared with me year after year was frightening. A four year old coming into the school system with so much baggage of all kinds meant they were beginning twenty yards behind the start line. These same individuals wanted my wife to do everything, and I mean everything. Blaming the school systems is just the easy way out. This Senator from Louisiana criticized all teachers and systems should really stay in his lane and that’s closer to home.
im guessing the gop response was "yeah, get that woke shit out of here " then proceeded to vote to decrease teacher pay again
Yep. That's the trigger not to think.
Teachers should make more money than senators.
give teachers the 183k, dummies in congress make
If Congresses pay was that of Teachers none of them would run for office..
The issue is politicians and education "experts" don't listen to teachers
This man is exactly the educator Republicans hate. A well spoken and educated man who has the certifications and knowledge to put them all in their places.
He’s the perfect ventriloquist for NEA, DEI, and LGBT propaganda for sure.
@@latrinemarine826I don't know if you're the one needing to talk about propaganda. You're kind of a prince of the dip-shits.
@@latrinemarine826do you need a safe space, snowflake? I've never seen someone so triggered by boogeymen.
I was taught to respect others, including those with backgrounds and languages foreign to me; We _somehow_ also managed to be taught and learn arts, sciences, and politics, and well. I have been asked to lead and train coworkers at every job and career in the last 25 years; My empathy has been key to that.
Thank you Mr Arthur! Education is truly a higher calling!
My sister is an elementary school teacher. After she was up in the field for 10-years, her salary topped out. She didn’t have enough to get clothes for her son, who lived with his dad. My sister taking over primary care of their daughter, who her ex-husband didn’t want. Since they both had one child, neither got child support. Her alimony was never increased, despite significant increases in his salary. So, we have a teacher, single parent, no child support, minimal alimony, with a topped out salary after ten years. Despite her ex demanding to have their son, did his dad take care of what he was supposed to? No. She bought his clothes, his school supplies, his contacts, his glasses, took him to the doctor and the dentist. She barely had enough to care for the child in her care. And, her kids knew it. So, her son wouldn’t say anything. When it was his night to stay with her, he wanted to do a load of laundry, because he needed to wash his jeans. He needed to wash his jeans, she found out, because they were the only pair of pants he had. I’m not sure how things would have turned out if our side of the family wasn’t supportive. I came to visit not long after she found out about the jeans and told his dad that their son needed at least one more pair. But, nope. He didn’t get his son more (likely because his new wife said no, the one he cheated on my sister with [despite both of them being married]. If it had been her son, sky’s the limit. My sister’s children, ‘hell no”. My niece didn’t even have a place to sleep at her dad’s house, or anyplace to go and get some privacy. Anyway, my younger sister and I were both single with good paying jobs. When I visited, we went and bought him 3 new pairs of jeans and some tops. He argued against it, because he knew what a strain that would put on my sister. I told him it was my treat, and he breathed a huge sigh of relief. But to the point of teacher wages. The wages for the people who have a very large impact on the shaping of the minds of our future. The same teachers who work for 10-years in a single district and never again get a raise, cost of living or merit-based. She has been a teacher for 36-years. She hasn’t had an increase in her pay in 26-years. There is something very wrong with that picture.
Testimonials like this one are important. Thank you for sharing your sister's story.
Let teachers teach. Politicians have put their noses in the wrong place. Teachers are like doctors to our children.
My mother was a teacher for 30 years. She told me to NEVER go into teaching. She knew what was happening to the profession and she didn’t want that for me.
I agree. My sister was a teacher and she was burnt to a crisp!. A crisp!!!. Overloaded with discipline problem students and students who were ranked low. 15 years of that and she said no I am done.
That guy is a STAR!!!!!
Unlike politicians, teachers are not getting rich!
Most make over the average income and only work 9 months a year.
@@dirtcache6128 wow… and you don’t stop? Hahahaha what a “tough guy” 😂😂😂😂
It's amazing how the most important person in children's life are not paid what they are worth. Teachers are worth so much more than any state pays. And is disgusting that states waste money instead of paying them what they are worth. My state of Florida has the money to pay Teachers a lot more and don't bother!!!
If school teachers do not get help neither should corporations.
Thank you Mr John Arthur for your very needed to hear message. Teachers need HIGH pay, prestige and respect.
Louisiana ranks 40th in education in the USA. One wonders why Cassidy is even at this hearing.
Cassidy is a fool!
@@kimberley1449 ...maybe the kindest description of him ever... 🤣
They might be lower then 40th honestly
It's interesting that in every industrialized nation, teachers are RESPECTED but here teachers are ATTACKED and DISRESPECTED. How quickly all these critics have forgotten about how they were CRYING and WHINING during covid when schools were on remote learning and parents had to deal with their own children. I say there should be a law that ALL lawmakers must substitute in a public school for a week b4 they can pass or propose ANY legislation regarding education.
Good man. Such an important voice. Listen to teachers when they express their needs! They are the experts
If senators like Cassidy are controlling the purse strings, good luck getting increased salaries for teachers at ANY level.
WOW!! My daughter/husband are teachers. It is s disgrace what is happening in this country. Sending blessings to this fantastic teacher!
I wish we had more teachers like Mr. Arthur.
He is well-spoken, humble and actually cares about teaching.
I'm 100% on board with paying teachers more. A lot more.
We pay Congress for not doing their jobs, but short change teachers 😳😳😳
Teachers never brought up politics or other social issues in the class. Even in the most racist part of the country the teachers taught their educational subjects.
Now that's a man with dedication❤❤❤
Teachers have always been paid less than the average factory worker but have been required to have continuous education in their fields
Teachers are exhausted trying to teach students who can't read at a 2nd grade level, do elementary math, or write a coherent paragraph. I don't think teachers have the time, energy, or desire to care about their students' personal beliefs.
WOW!! What an awesome teacher!!! Thank you! Vote blue in Roevember!!!💙💙💙
I’d rather pay teachers than give tax breaks to corporations or selfish wealthy team owners for stadiums…why do we have to reward them with tax dollars and then pay high prices for tickets, food, and merch at said stadiums. Teachers bring out ideas, open the minds of children, inspire, and take care of students during the school day. We now pay bad cops that kill innocent people that often times only have a high school diploma and no psychological training or social skills to deal with people…and yet talk so much sh?t about teachers. This society is ass backwards and is turning into an idiocracy where some adults think it’s ok to elect a felon and a corrupt supreme court has the right to take away people’s civil rights…go figure
You get what you pay for that's why kids are failing now. Cheap teacher pay.
IF THE POWERS THAT BE HAVE NO RESPECT FOR TEACHERS AND EDUCATION.....HOW CAN PARENTS AND STUDENTS HAVE RESPECT?
My son spends more hours a day with the educators that mentor and lead my boy through the educational path.
His success in life will be largely the result of the wonderful caring teachers, they ALL deserve salary, prestige, and respect, for the important job that they do for our society.
Bla bla bla
Thank you for endorsing teachers. 👍
@@Todd-s1u I guess that is something spare parts would say.
@@donpakka have a sex change lol
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Thank you Mr. Arthur for your service sir.
The fact is they’re not going to emphasize the thousands of exceptional teachers and students because that does not fit their narrative or agenda. Please help me understand how people whose kids are predominantly in private schools really care about public school students and teachers. Really 😒.
I hate to say this is by design. The undereducated tends to vote Republican. You can make your own reference, but it's true.
when greed creeps it's way into public service, just look around, that's where we are.
What kind of evil human would be against raising pay for teachers?
Republicans.
The kind of people who want trumpkin in charge.
Republicans want people stupid and indoctrinated by religion. They want mindless obedient slaves. Not intelligent, educated, critical thinkers.
I love a republican criticising education when they've been behind dismantling the education system for decades.
....Everything Republicans do is to the DETRIMENT of Average Americans....they have NOTHING but, BIGOTRY CRUELTY HATRED RACISM LIES & FEAR !
This Congress needs to go back to school. These guys do not know the Constitution (just the basics), geography (Sen. Cotton looking at you … Singapore ), some basic science stuff, grammar … do I need to go on? This Congress/Senate can’t do a damn thing to fix anything in this country. We have to fix our schools at the local and state level. Go to your school board meetings, vote on the school budgets but don’t be idiots about banning books, micro managing your teachers just let them do their jobs and teach. Get involved with your PTA. Please vote the Republicans out. That’s my soapbox for the moment.
Teachers should have higher pay they are the ones that teach the future lawyers, Doctors, nurses, engineers.......
Oh for sure. Where are our future gender and fat studies researchers going to come from?
GOP and education huh? Oil in water.
I'm not surprised by a GOPer arguing against anything pertaining to public education or public school teachers. They've been on a mission since Reagan was elected, to completely dismantle public education by defunding it or making mandates that are unfunded. They want all schools to be "choice", in other words, privately owned and operated by those who will make a profit off students' education. These schools are not held accountable for outcomes, no testing standards, and also be able to do the bare minimum without oversight and be allowed to fire a teacher "at will", which can mean anything. They want to take taxpayer money for a private entity including religious schools, while also discriminating against students who are minorities, or those with learning disabilities and/or behavioral issues. This dismantling of public education by republicans, is the final backlash from the 1954 SCOTUS decision of Brown v. Board of Education. They want their lily white children in separate schools, but under the guise of "choice" or "charter schools" so it doesn't sound like discrimination.
Lets take congress's pay away and disribute it to teachers!
I don’t want to be that guy, but taking all of their salaries and distributing it amongst all teachers likely won’t even add $100 per year.
It amazes me how people who’ve never been in the classroom, try to tell those of us who have, what’s going on in our classrooms. They have no clue, and use the same old talking points, then try to use that to justify keeping the very people who helped turn them into lawyers and businessmen in poverty.
These are the same people who don't have a uterus or vagina but they want to be in charge of it
Pay teacher enough to pay there loans The system isn’t broken Republicants are broken
Secretary of education right there!
how could you DEFEND not paying teachers more.. how can you live with yourself.
I bet he’s one of the teachers much beloved by his students.
The teacher was insanely well spoken, and even though I hope and wish what he asks for comes to light, I do not think it will happen. The current landscape of politics has damaged any changes for education to be taken seriously. Though if we just get 1 or 2 states to enact way better pay, perhaps it will force other states to raise pay to keep educators.
PAY...PAY...PAY, our teachers!!
As I have matured in life, I have gotten a greater appreciation for teachers. The average class size is 25 students per teacher. The teachers have at least 6 classes per day. IF you do the math, that's 150 different personalities per day, 5 days a week! What other career can you HONESTLY say has that many people to educate, while using their own money and making so little. Definitely not a CEO of any company because he manages to get to the top sipping wine and smoking cigars! TEACHING should be one of the HIGHEST paid professions period! Without a teacher, I never would have been a business owner/operator!
More like 30 students. More now with all the migrants brought to the city. Teachers do not teach their agenda, this is just ridiculous
@@user-zo7ud5ld8l People act like migrants are overrunning EVERY city in this country! That's NOT true and you know it. Teachers are STILL able to teach their agendas because IF they were not able to, we wouldn't have graduations! Lay off ALL that propaganda!
Trolls gaslighting again, Faux Propaganda network, flush twice to get big turds down.
My dad said “teacher? How will you support your family?”. I was the first to graduate from college in my family.38 yrs as a ms history/coach , summers working in a body shop and now with social security and state retirement I “make” more than I did teaching. I miss the kids but not the baloney rules from non teachers. I take pride in what my “ kids” were able to - it could be amazing at times.
Teachers should be one of the highest paid professions in the country. They are shaping the minds and bodies of your most important elements in our society now and for the future.
Yes! Imagine if teachers were all paid an actual high living wage, the same in each state, the quality of wonderful teachers hired everywhere would be wonderful!
Every single child would be given the best education, in every state!
Where do these Republicans come up with their nonsense “alternative” facts? Did any of the Republicans at this committee hang around to hear what this teacher had to say?
Utah teacher here-thank you for representing us in the most excellent way!
John speaks truth to power in a most eloquent and substantial way! He is also one of the most amazing educators I've ever had the opportunity to work with!
I don't see the point in underpaying our teachers or underfunding education as a whole! Why would we only put part of our effort into giving our kids the best shot we can! But that's exactly what we do! Because Republicans want to privatize it and make money on it!!
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“Social agendas and progressive ideologies “ in other words not pushing a Christian religion
Hey shut up and read those 10 commandments D: