Oklahoma teacher strike: 'I have 29 textbooks for 87 pupils' - BBC News
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- Three teachers in Oklahoma open up their classrooms to show the impact of funding cuts in the US state.
They explain why they're joining thousands of other teachers to skip school and protest on 2 April.
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Education gets cuts yearly, yet the military budget is overspending like never before
Malala said the same thing to Obama.
Anthony F everything you listed is a business. The government isn’t a business, it’s a social program. We use tax payer dollars to overfund and throw money into the toilet.
We literally have a warehouse full of tanks that are now obsolete, that have never been driven a mile. We spent more than half a billion on a plane that can’t even fly. The military budget is a joke.
@@kevinarzola4781 I am sorry, but how are you supposed to get oil without military support? Schools are not the best tool to get oil.
Kreepi Krawli one, the military’s budget is overblown. As I stated in the examples above, the military literally told both presidential candidates in 2012 that they didn’t need any more money (as Romney wanted to add more to the budget). That’s when it came out that we had tanks in the middle of a war that have not and would never be used. Now we have a plane that can’t even fly. We can EASILY defend ourselves with 200 billion less.
You do realize that the US is currently spending the near the same amount when adjusted for inflation as we did during the start of the Iraq war right?
And you get oil by making deals. We are literally the 3rd largest oil producer on the planet right now. We don’t need oil. Oil is a primitive technology that should be forgotten. How we still rely so heavily on it is pure corruption and oil money in politics at work.
Dodge Challenger have you seen the debt? And nobody is attacking the military. I’m attacking overspending.
but yet the superintendent does less work and gets paid like a whole lot more.
Jake Farneth that’s the downfall of many schools
Most leadership positions end up being like that...
That's the nature of any gov't agency. Top heavy with administrators. They hide in their cushy offices and do nothing all day, while you and I pick up the tab. Is it any wonder that American universities award 500,000 education degrees every year? And since teachers unions "run the machine", they will always get whatever they want. Good work if you can get it I suppose.
What makes you think they do less work? Im not knocking teachers or saying they are payed to high. Only saying that most have a tough job.
Jake Farneth they don’t always “do less” being a superintendent can be a really hard and stressful job
As a student I have to say, you either hit the lottery with good education or get screwed over. There’s no in between.
It's mainly genetics and parental backing.
And money. Don’t forget the money
What does genetics have to do with anything?
I hit "top dog" and it's words either way because they focus on pushing test instead of learning and create an environment that makes struggling kids feel as if their lazy or not working hard enough when it's really the schools and or teachers fault.
In America you mean?
For a country that boasts about being top dog, we sure do spend a lot more on prisons we could close down, and military equipment we don't need.
The military equipment is needed, the prisons I think we should find an alternative.
@@johnmckenya828 Your country blew a trillion dollars on a jet that doesn't work (F-35)
@@johnmckenya828 because blowing money on things we don't use or don't work is necessary
Well not all prisons need to be shut down. We don’t need anymore murders or sex offenders out in the open.
@@TexasGirl22 most prisons in this country house people she are commiting crimes like illegal drug use and are for the most part most inmates are in their for victimless crimes unfortunately.
She's a teacher and a judge/lawyer? Wowo! Oklahoma get it together and while i am at it, the whole education system needs to get it together!
A lawyer and judge are completely different my man
TeChArmy100 well you have to be one to be the other
TeChArmy100 most judges are lawyers before they become judges
They wont because its controlled by Republicans who only cares for themselves in Oakaholma. That the problem with this country. Politican only care about themselves. Only time they care about issue that people have is an issue that they know would affect them.
military equipments gonna be handy considering trump started ww3
“I have 29 textbooks for 87 pupils.”
That’s insane. That means a group of THREE students would have to share ONE textbook. The government has to stop screwing over these hardworking teachers.
it is on a state level
Nowhere in America are three students sharing the same textbook. What's insane is the fact that there are millions of uninformed, brainwashed Americans that believe it.
@@zephead843 It is actually very common in all the schools I went to (and the schools I went to were in different states). In facts, the average for my school is 1 textbook for 4 students. In schools that are closer to upper class communities, most students only have to share time to time, so that may be what you are talking about. Sorry if I am misunderstanding you.
Well, yes and no. It means that none of the students can ever take the book home, not that three students are necessarily pairing up to share one book. I've taught in these types of environments before, and it's a real pain in the ass. No money for textbooks? OK, but we also don't have enough money to make copies of the relevant pages, so what do we do? Oh, now we're supposed to offer it all electronically to save paper but don't have money to give the students a laptop or tablet?
In my school there are only 20 textbooks on one class.... at most there are only 2 people Sharing the book
The high school teacher with the blonde hair only gets 3 hours of sleep
No...she doesn't. What you watched was a propaganda piece produced by the radical left wing of the Democrat party. She looks pretty chipper to me.
zep head I’m republican, but I wouldn’t go as far to say that this is propaganda, there are serious issues with our education system and it doesn’t matter which political side addresses it, it needs to be addressed. Illiterate students will grow up to be foolish illiterate adults!
@@kdizzle2043 Many all ready have. You get what you pay for. Pay teachers like crap, teachers move on and you have none. Capitalism at its finest!
zep head i’m a student in oklahoma, this is in no way exaggerating or propaganda.
Last year, I had two weeks off of school, cause of this strike
Here in Singapore, being an educator is actually a respectable profession.
Singapore is actually one of the wealthiest countries in the world per capita. It also has extremely strict laws.
@@mithicash1444 thank you for telling us what we already know sir, yes I did go to middle school, yes that makes me so smart
I wish the US was like that. I want to become a teacher someday, but the pay and attitude towards teachers here holds me back
Teaching is a respectable profession here in the states as well, as teachers don't work nights, weekends, or holidays. In fact, their "work year" totals about eight and a half months, so after thirty years service (22.5 years of "in class" time) they qualify for a cop pension, which is in the range of $3500-$5000/mo.depending on jurisdiction. No one's going to tell me teachers aren't respected in America.
Belle F. no you dont theres other professions out there, just because you dont know about them yet, dont mean they aint out there
"Land of the free" - unless you require healthcare, or any kind of decent Education.
More like "Home of the BRAVE".
freedom cost money. nothing on the earth is free. there4 its just a saying. but 'free' means like free to do as you please and protest
Imperial America because some people cant afford to and the die as a result
Imperial America, it's because we pay twice as much per capita for healthcare, but get worse results than any other modern nation. 42,000 people die each year because they don't have access to basic health care. Health insurance companies are just a cash-sucking middleman, with their only obligation being to their shareholders and padding the bottom line, while they do everything in their power to deny help to anyone who needs it even if fully covered.
The problem is people thinking they’re entitled to something. The teachers who are demanding raises shouldn’t be teaching in the first place because it’s clear they’re only in it for the money.
But those poor bankers!
Can you have no sympathy for them that they can't afford a private jet!
Have you no heart.
Yes, the job creators are itching for another tax cut :)
worst part of that tax break is workers got bonuses not raises, i rather have a 50cent raise than a 2K bonus check
Gregory Everson me too. That extra $.50 will come in handy and the $2k is swallowed up by bills lol
You can't steal money from other people to give it to others. That's theft.
Jack Hancotte tAxaTiOn iS thEFt
Oklahoma, Kansas, Alabama, Mississippi, etc. are really struggling. Teachers can’t afford to live off the salary. No matter how much they love what they do, they need to be able to survive. This is so sad.
Lots of people would enjoy loving what they do for a living. Sadly, the world can only afford but so many ballerinas. These are young American women with Master's Degrees. If they want the big bucks they can go out and get 'em. But they'll have to work twelve months a year. And their salary will be predicated on their job performance. Teachers are constantly "poormouthing" about their horrible plight in life, but precious few of them actually put their money where their mouth is and start new careers.
@@zephead843 Do you want to live in a world without teachers? Many people with Master's Degrees get them so that they can teach at a higher level. You want them to go do different careers? Then who do you want educating our kids? Because I don't want an uneducated person who barely passed high school or squeaked by with a Bachelor's to be teaching my future kids. Teachers are necessary, and should be paid enough to have a decent living.
@@zephead843 do you realize how stupid you sound?
@@zephead843
Without teachers you wouldn't be able to write.
Every normal country has free education and supports it.
Just not the capitalist tyranny and oligarchy of tycoons which brainwashes their people on supporting their own economical slavery and invasion of poor countries for resources, i.e. USA!
@@issabellamerie7139 I doubt zep head does. Stupid people rarely do.
teachers probably have one of the most important jobs ever. they literally prepare us for our future and teach us everything we need to know to get us somewhere in life. everybody would literally be nothing without teachers so why are they underpaid? doctors and lawyers have important jobs but they wouldn’t know anything about their field if they weren’t taught about it so why are they getting paid more than someone who literally taught them and helped them get where they are now?
kaelin casper not really
My dad is a teacher. It's the worst thing to hear these kids in my school who are incredibly rich talking about how teachers don't need to be paid more, especially because it will raise taxes!
They said that to the face of a teacher i know for a fact is struggling to get by on her teaching paycheck alone. It's just unreasonable. They should appreciate the people trying to teach them how to get by in life. The only reason my family isn't living paycheck to paycheck is because of military disability payments for my mom. Teachers shouldn't have to worry about getting enough food, they should worry about the quality of information being taught to threat children.
Okay that's it for my rant/ ted talk
I agree they should be paid more, but not more than doctors do. Doctors work insane hours, spend over 7 years in uni and their job is extremely stressful.
What does your dad teach? If it’s something in high demand such as stem, the trades, or accounting, or maybe law if he was a successful lawyer, I respect that. But if it’s in the liberal arts and humanities, I seriously wonder if you have a brain or not.
Um idiot, doctors and lawyers have more education compared to teachers and they save lives. Supply and demand, ugh.
One of the most underappreciated jobs and many times taken for granted as well. I remember when States started their Lottery's with the idea that the basis was going to help schools and Teachers. Sadly this is not the case all these years later. Sad commentary on how Teachers are not taken care of.
they barely work 8 months a year and earn like 40K a year
Gregory Everson-- "they barely work"?....I wholeheartedly disagree and knowing a few teacher's myself they are working during their Summer as well in planning their next sessions and getting what supplies they need for their Students most times with their own money as well.
Try 31k and 10 months a year
TY Jen Siegel for teaching and loving your Students....ALL Teachers make a huge difference in a kids life!! Cheers
lets see, 2 months off for summer, 1 week of or Xmas, 1 week off for spring break, and other random days off and 31K a year is like making 15$hr
That teacher went to college (she had to have in order to be a teacher) and here she is living paycheck to paycheck...everything is all a lie
@P Your area is probably unionized.
P not every teacher is paid the same
@PYeah, they've obviously made bad financial decisions.
@P you probably have a higher pay check, everyone has different experiences. These people are doing more work than you because they could move out but decide to stay so the school doesn't loose more teachers.
P Bruh, if you were a teacher, you would respect the teachers teaching these students during bad school conditions, have you ever thought that maybe these teachers aren’t here for the money, but for the students or are you just dumb?
It’s ridiculous the disparity in education across this country. I live in NH and we all have chrome books while they don’t have enough textbooks...
I go to school in OK. My high school has Chrome books for all the students but they couldn't give us text books. You only got text books if you had no access to the internet at home(they wanted us to read online) but my password didn't work for the website. I failed multiple test because I had no textbooks to study with. At the end of the year the teachers went on strike for 2 weeks. 2 weeks without school! We were supposed to be state testing but instead we were at home staring at screens. They had to expand the school day and give us more school days so we could finish the year. Half the kids did not take a semester test because they were on their summer vacation with their family.
chromebooks were donated by google to help with that disparity at my school! no idea whyyyyyyy google didn't donate money for scholarships but whatever
It's because education funding is not federally regulated or federally provided.
I also live in Oklahoma we have chromebooks but some of the teachers still have old computers our library still has box computers so does our elementary school but we still have alot of electives but textbooks are reused and so are books for English or math
I live in California we had our own chrome book we were able to take home and use everyday. All my old teachers got payed over 70,000 dollars a year I had 2 nurses and a clean school I can’t even imagine going to a school like that I am truly blessed
When government cut budgets for education, I hope they realize they’re cutting the potential of the future generation.
For the GOP, that's part of the plan, sadly enough.
@@TheTrueAdept when Democrats pile on the national debt, I hope they know their grandchildren will be paying for their expensive healthcare.
@@owlblocksdavid4955 Neither party has done anything to solve for national debt. I think funding education and healthcare is a better investment than building a border wall and organizing space force.
@@owlblocksdavid4955 Don't blame the democrats, the president is currently republican. What has he done about this? Oh appoint Davos? LOL
@@owlblocksdavid4955 Obama did a lot better that's for sure for one thing instead he came up with the ACA bill that helped millions of Americans without healthcare
What is going on with America's education system. Holy crap. My school wasn't in the best area, didn't have the best teachers but we more or less always had what we need. America is going downhill in so many ways, I feel sorry for everyone who lives there, they deserve better than this!
I wanna move from America to Europe. Someday, someday. ;-;
@@xnovax4189 so do i
The UK is the same
Camda is where the real food ass education is at and Ireland/Switzerland I can't remember which has the best education system in the world sry
@@crookiemoon3547 it was Finland
I live in Oklahoma attending the second largest school district in Moore our school cannot even afford paper at this point and many classes are being cut year after year at my elementary we no longer have art or choir. I’m now in high school where school has already been out 4 days. Several days before the walkout our teachers expressed that this is a historic event and a very real fear that noting will change. Our student body as a whole is angry and sad that the children do not the get funding we deserve.
Same here, The school that i go to cant afford paper , the text books are 10+ years. and in one of my classes we had 40 kids but only 32 desk
Space Jaime reading all these comments makes me feel so fortunate to go to a very good public school with no staffing issues and a great community. You guys deserve better, school is supposed to be challenging and education is supposed to be foremost, this really breaks my heart.
hopefully we get more funding soon. there are so many schools here that are struggling far worse then others. but im glad for those in other states ,that feel great about their schools. someday oklahoma will be great education,
Yeah my school has cut many classes too. Funding really needs to change. Our classe's textbooks are from the 90s, that should say something for christ sake.
Oscar Ruby damn. My daughter is in public school. It's grade 4 and they've been using a PC and tablets since grade 2? I thought an old book was from maybe 2015. I am so thankful in the Netherlands we have good public schools. ALL kids deserve a good education.
I found the hardest thing about teaching was actually dealing with the parents.
Yes, agreed
It's mostly dealing with admin. Parents are easy to handle if you fairly grade the students but once you start failing too many then yes you might run into some parental problems.
It's even worse in wealthy school districts when their moms dont have to work, because they complain about the pettiest things: Why did you fail my boy! The traffic in the area means I can't find parking at Starbucks! How dare you not let my daughter join the team!
Because a lot of teachers are selfish, i mean a lot of them only care about keeping their job than stopping bullying: czcams.com/video/auVtqQIcQFM/video.html
Now you wonder why parents don´t trust teachers, because bullying and school shootings
@@Charles-hy6gp that is not the teachers fault
They are severely underpaid
Why dont you write to your congressperson about stopping school shootings
I live in Oklahoma (8th grader) and almost all of my teachers have a second job its kinda sad but at least I get to see my history teacher serving food at Louie’s every Friday night.
Same problem in many other states too!
Absolutely depressing. These people help teach and raise our children and they're paid rubbish. Teachers deserve better.
Bootsii Marxist teachers deserve unemployment.
Chicot The Jester
Teachers are fundamental to society and should be be venerated beyond surgeons.
This not good enough for today's generation. Even normal, functional schools arent okay. Society is changing at an ever increasing pace and we may see a future where manual labour is nonexistent very soon. The education, and not just the 9 to 3 crap, of humanity is necessary. We need citizens not just grades. We need people ready for a different world not people without teachers.
I Have A List Of Professional Victims Here's a thought: they both are.
Pseudonymous Being But when teachers start teaching kids what to think not how to think then they’ve gone off the rails and forfeit any right you think they have to respect.
I am a muslim Your CZcams name betrays your agenda I’m afraid.
Might wanna fund the education system properly before giving them guns .
Just a thought ..........
Someone once told me that a potential solution to the "gun problem" would be a mandatory firearm safety class in middle or high school, teaches things that should be common sense but somehow aren't (always point the gun down range, wear high visibility outfits when collecting the meat you just hunted, etc) but we all know how unlikely that'd be to happen (despite how much it should be, given gun ownership is a constitutional right)
@@cpufreak101 well, if you are talking about hunting that would just help school shooters.
As an Okie going to a little bitty school, this is seriously a problem. We had music/band up until two years ago and lost it after the teacher retired and now we can’t hire anyone else. We go to 4 days a week, and don’t have elective classes because we don’t have enough teachers. We do not have foreign language, we have computer apps and agriculture classes. Almost all my teachers have only taught at my school for this year or a year or two. All of the kids I went to kindergarten with are still in my high school class. We don’t have multiple groups of students in any grade levels. There are 17 high school freshman. Do to budget cuts, we don’t have textbooks anymore. We got a grant and now we have chrome books, and high school kids and middle school kids might break them or get their rights revoked, and now they can’t learn.
We own three normal school busses, and they are from before the 80’s. We have one game bus, and we had to buy it off another school.
We need more teachers and more fundings towards schools, not towards rebuilding the state capitol building (which is already just fine), we need money towards tiny little po-dunk schools so that highschool freshman don’t have to take state tests that they fail because they didn’t learn the correct curriculum.
Jesus- I really hope things get better at your school dude. Keep on trying your beat in academics though, so that your teacher's efforts aren't in vain.
if their isnt enough money coming from taxes not much can be done
And yet most Okies vote Republican
Each teacher at my school should teach 3 classes a day since my school has block sechedualing but some are forced to teach 8.
@@kercchan3307 raise taxes then
It wasn't until I watched this that I realized how privileged I was for my education.
My 17 yo son was discussing Finland’s education system a few months ago. It is apparently one of the worlds best. Private schools are not allowed. All effort is put into optimizing the public system. This year Finland was rated first on happiness scale. Some analysts have theorized that the German election was inoculated against ´meddling’ because of the high quality of the German education system. Having the highest quality education system is not just a ´socialist’ fetish...it seems it may be a necessary strategic national aim.
And the reason the German populace may have been ´hardened’ against fake news is postulated as a respect for the professional journalism traditions is Germany. This is manifested in the continued popularity of newspapers as the main news source. The propensity to read may be a key characteristic in a durable democratic society.
Michael R Annis your son is smarter than the current POTUS...
Shaunak Kulkarni thank you for your insight, things are rarely as simple as they appear. I enjoy that we can discuss! I do believe that generally the nordics have less distance between social classes and it makes sense that they score well on the quality of life scale.
Michael R Annis
I am a teacher from Germany.
And I have to say that you are exaggerating.
The German educational system is far from good. There are lots of ways to improve it.
BUT if I see what these Oklahoma teachers have to deal with, we have it way better.
I have to add that the trust in our media is not as high as it used to be and we have some kind of resilience against fake news, but we are not immune.
That the "Bild" is the most popular ...well... daily written paper that the people read in Germany, is a statement in itself.
As an explanation: The Newspapers have an oversight committee made from reporters of different news-organisations that oversees and somewhat regulates the press... well that sounds bad at first sight, but they regulate it in a different way: Newspaper articles have to meet standards e.g. in writing, the reporters have to actually investigate news and so on. so they pay attention that the news meet a standard.
The Bild was forced by this commission to remove the word "Newspaper" from their frontage, because they never meet the standards for a real journalistic newspaper in Germany.
So to say we are hardened against fake news is a kinda double edged statement, because we see fake news every day in the Bild, on the other hand are we educated enough to know that.
Shaunak Kulkarni I’m not sure which countries « rich » you are referring to? In Sweden and in Finland I understand you cannot charge money for education so there are few private schools. And I see your point about culture and education. In 1960s there were still families who removed there kids from school early to work their farms and businesses.
Those women are saints. Not bs religious saints, but real saints. Without their sacrifice and selflessness the betrayal against the kids in Oklahoma would be even worse than it is. Richest country in the world destroying the one form of capital that actually makes a difference. Human capital. So very shameful.
It is our state's fault. Voters' faults really! We need to vote them out!
Correction: All teachers that are working on public school in America are saints
Maybe the Teachers should be fired for such POOR PERFORMANCE RESULTS...
Oklahoma State Student Proficiencies (2017):
1. Eighth-graders:
a. 22.97% proficient in math
b. 34.53% proficient in English/language arts
2. Fourth-grades:
a. 40.5% proficient in math
b. 37.01% proficient in English/language arts
3. 18.84% of 10th graders are ON TRACK to be college and career ready (as deemed by the State)
Source: Oklahoma Department of Education
Jack Black Booo get off the stage! Maybe the problem is overcrowded classrooms, outdated textbooks, NO TEXTBOOKS, extreme poverty, etc.. Data is just that. The tests in themselves are flawed.
The problem is people thinking they’re entitled to something. The teachers who are demanding raises shouldn’t be teaching in the first place because it’s clear they’re only in it for the money.
In Canada, public school teacher's salary starts from 50k and goes up through senority. I can't wrap my head around the fact that these Oklahoma teachers have been receiving stagnant 33k a year with no raise and some even picked up side jobs to support themselves... Inspring, but it should not be that way.
Canada's welfare state is less than 10% the size of ours. That may have something to do with it. And Canadians don't posture themselves as the world's police force either. So there's that.
@@zephead843 The USA does a lot of stupid police force things.... That budget can easily be cut by a reasonable margin.
That's barely middle class.
@@conabish what 50k a year?
The people who disliked this are the people who caused this in the first place
Yeah...that's what happened. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
How?
Teachers' unions, bureaucrats and administrators?
@@owlblocksdavid4955 How are unions responsible for this?
@@khadijahmuhammad4771
Because how dare they ask to be treated like humans instead if worker drones they obviously are.
Big business strikes again. Textbook costs themselves are artificially inflated and this adds enormously to education costs.
minceyjs One of many
Yep. When they've got a monopoly on the textbook market, they can run roughshod over everyone and it's the students and teachers who suffer for it.
Blueeyes713 it's really a sick game... not unlike the bloody battles that take place for lucrative government contracts
The teachers should be able to teach without textbooks, or make their own.
Bruh that dosent explain why they haven't received a pay rise in a bloody decade. If someone did this in Australia, it's be their ass on the barboe
where is that lottery money for education oklahoma
tracey born most of it went to HIGHER ED. 😑
alison harris I don't know how that helped because tuitions at OU went up every year from 2011-Present.
Haris Bin Tariq well look at the lawn. My school has no wood chips and exposed concrete. We've had two broken arms and serveral stitches. Hope the university kids enjoy their beautifully manicuref lawn. Check your facts.
Manicured.
$31.4 million for the K-12 school funding formula
$3.5 million for the School Consolidation Assistance Fund
$3.5 million for the Teachers’ Retirement System
$3.8 million for Career Tech
$27.6 million for higher education
Shes been working for 10 years and brings home 33k and I just started working and I make 50k and couldnt be there without teachers.... they deserve more....
I worked in Oklahoma public schools for three years. I remember helping a group of sophomores with their WWII essays they all thought Japan was a U.S. City somewhere by California. I had to leave to find a better paying job.
"Nah! Let's just give the military another $200,000,000,000. Oh, and that's not allowed to help our soldiers."
That was a strategic move on Trump's part, in case he has to go to "Plan B."
Teachers are some of the most important peopele in a kids life, they certainly were for me, yet they're not valued in the country as the should.
@steve b Does that mean they don't work harder then you and me do? I don't thinks so man.
@steve b Man, looks like you have a lot of anger pent up in you, maybe if you took up an elective to help with that anger instead of trying to fight somebody on the internet, you'd have turned out better? Just a thought. Sorry for disturbing you.
@steve b Have a nice day! (=
steve b I hope you see the irony in you correcting someone’s word choice when you have every other word in all caps.
@@sajanpatel4956 that does not correlate m8. The caps are for words of emphasis; it is a good rhetorical device to express emotion on yt, but not a literary analysis essay.
Wow that Chelsea teacher doesn't even see her kid because of her two jobs...
The second woman only gets 3 hours of sleep. 😨
She looks pretty good for someone getting only three hours of sleep, huh?
zep head ik
zep head makeup is pretty good at covering up sleep deprivation
"I'm in eight grade, teaching kids who literally read on a second grade level because they've missed gaps" - This is terrible. This is how we end-up with an uneducated population, which in turn is easily manipulated. Then, we end-up with people like Trump in positions of power. Uneducated people vote in their own disinterest. Just sad ...
Eusunt Dac voting like that is both a problem on the right and the left
it's oklahoma... we're lucky they're being taught anything besides the bible...
+Bigfoot Hunters I mean as a substitute for public education... yeah I think perhaps a child could separate their religion from their education... or you can home school them and have incest or whatever... your state...
I can’t believe these children missed 6 years of reading education. Clearly the teachers aren’t doing their jobs so why get paid more.
Yeah it's clearly the teachers fault... when the school doesn't have the money to stay open all week... the teachers should work off the clock and go to each kids house and tutor them until they're with the rest of the nation who pays their teachers nearly double... a teacher in oklahoma makes up to 46k and the state is ranked 47th out of 50 in education... In massachusetts the average salary is 69k... and guess what they're #1 in education almost every year...
Why fund education for the kids future when you can fund your army! Rite? 🤮 good work America
Education is mostly state funded, while army is mostly federally funded, try again.
Also, they have money to fund teachers to buy guns.
Space Monkey
So, education needs to be funded by the federal. No brainer there!
Ok....and we get invaded by a superior Army who will find schools then?
they should have never went into that line of work nobody becomes a teacher to get rich
So that’s why my parents moved...
Thanks!
It makes me so sad to see these huge, beautiful classrooms with such hardworking teachers and engaged classes, and they're barely able to survive.
The Governor of Oklahoma Mary Fallon, is a child. Me, a 7th grader is saying this, she said that the teachers are acting like teenagers whining and being selfish. Most of the teachers I've been taught by are beautiful people with family's that they need to support, and they get only a little more money then a Mc. Donald's manager. This is sad. I've always been interested in learning, and I am lucky enough to go to a school that is supported enough to have a band, choir, and other extra elective classes. It saddens me that some students that live in other places with smaller schools can't get things like Band scholarships, choir scholarships, art, & so on. I am so grateful that I have teachers who want to stay and teach at our schools, people who stay to help us because of the good in their hearts. I wish I could say the same for our government. By the way, this is very opinionated.
Fan of MANGA Well said! You’re a great person!
What school you go to b?
Fan of MANGA well spoken
Mindlesscargo I'd rather not say due to privacy and safety but I go to a school in a town near the Tulsa district.
Baylee Is Dead Yes, because we should be finding billions into useless shit like art,band,and mudic.
If I lived there I would be absolutely enraged with such a lousy system . Imagine kids in grade eight reading at a grade two level because the school didn't have enough teachers on staff to teach them properly . What the hell is that . Vote those corrupt M F s out this fall . Clean house for your kids sake .
I think eight grade reading at second is a bit exaggerated but I agree with what you are saying.
you'd be surprised I've had kids who can't tie their shoes, tell time, subtract when the number on top is smaller, they have trouble with the alphabet or counting. it's terrifying and yet one can only do so much.
It's not an imagination, it's a reality. Sadly.
As bad as the school system is, shouldn’t the parents also be a part of raising their attainment? I have two children of my own, I come from a family of teachers, I understand the issues. It just feels like everything is upside down. The school shouldn’t be the only place a child is educated. Both of my kids were reading before they went to school, not because I forced them but because I spent a lot of time with them, reading with them and just working with their natural curiosity. I’m not rich, I was a young mother the first time around. It just made sense that I was their primary educator, and school was a part of it, but only a part.
Lol I think you over exaggerating a bit there bud
2.00 "i think it's scary to bring a kid into this" absolutely.
I am in awe of these ladies. I could not handle teaching and having a second job, essentially a second career, on the side. Nope.
Im at home with my kids lol. Oklahoma is a joke. The Senate needs to fix this instead of fixing our capital.
We have. Lobbing as well. The lottery was added nothing happend. They rather shake a hand with money than to move those seats!!
Laurelle Banks I’m with you, Laurelle! Remember all those “temporary” sales taxes to fund education? Then they used the money for something else and made the tax permanent?
Every time I travel out of state it blows my mind that I don’t get charged tax for FOOD or other groceries.
Also stop paying corporations to build wind farms tax free. That would help.
Thank you for being an understanding parent and not blaming the teachers. They're trying to fool us and we won't let them! Hopefully these few days will be worth it!
The problem in Oklahoma is that the state lowered taxes and then past an amendment to the state constitution to require the state Senate to need a 66% majority to raise taxes again. The state literally has made raising taxes impossible in the state. This has caused the state to have massive budgetary shortfalls and there is no way to close them without cutting costs.
This is so upsetting. Thank you for this excellent coverage and thank you to the teachers of Oklahoma.
And footballers who run around kicking a ball get millions...
I agree
Two different things but I agree its messed up.
This really thought me to appreciate my teachers more. I used to hate my English teacher cause her class was boring. But after watching this I wanna go to her and say sorry fir being so rude to her. Never ever be bean to your teachers. They deserve so much respect. They do so much for us and they at beast deserve a little bit of respect and kindness from us.
In vermont we had one textbook for a class of 20. The teacher made photo copies and two grades were merged together
Bernie heard ya yet you dumbasses chose trump
Raf Tash I doubt this person from Vermont voted for trump...& Clinton had a better education funding plan then Bernie’s campaign lol
Shaunak Kulkarni I know right?! It’s kinda sad...& although I thought Bernie was wrongfully labeled like that, he didn’t help himself by not being able to clearly outline his strategies. I felt he and Hillary had the same end goal...she only changed her method of achieving those goals after learning how US sick politics works. Pragmatism gets a lot done but is not exciting unfortunately.
Bernie had nothing to do with it. It had to do with the fact in kindergarten to 8th grade there was only 64 kids so the school did not get much in funding.
you guys have it worse but im on that path! we have 28 text books for class of 34 but next year it will be 28 for class of 40 and so on im almost in 8th grade and were deep in crap my school spent 1 million of chromebooks and we've had severe student population decreases! it winding down into a bad place! good luck a kid in the underfunded oregon schools---
At the beginning I was like: "Ok you guys don't art or band. I heard some good schools that di- Holy shit! You guys dont got a Nurse!"
We didn't have any of that where I grew up. The system was designed to funnel certain kinds of people (in my case, rural Southerners) into the military to fight for oil and other resources.
What's the point of the nurse when they just give you ice packs
I feel like nurses required is that not required by law to have a nurse
i go to school in chicago. technically we do, but shes not here like every other day.
We really need a president or politician who actually doesn’t care about violence or war, but education. Where the strive to give every kid the education they deserve.
That costs money and if there is anything that would get you kicked out of office faster than light it would be rasing taxes.
There is nothing you can do, Good presidents always get shot, remember JFK?
Damn... this makes me feel so fortunate to live in Canada.
Same here.
Nah, it all depends
Julia Furman depends on what? Could you please elaborate
@@Lemonminer It depends on the state? Well, I guess, for example, I live in Illinois and the education over here is great, it really does depend on the state you live in. I feel fortunate to have this opportunity.
D e a t h P a c i t o Oh, that’s unfortunate that only children in some states get good education while in other states it is underfunded.
No body is gonna want to be a teacher soon.
Chocolate Kyle kulinski we're already in a teacher shortage.
I was considering being a teacher for a while, but then my cousins (who both got degrees for teaching and we're both pink slipped their first year bc the schools had to make cuts) told me about the current state of education and it scared the living daylights out of me. Tbh, a lot of things scare me these days.
Going into education myself and what you say is true. My town has three schools that pump out educators in the 100s every year within 30 min of it. Yet last year the schools got desperate enough that they hired a full time elementary teacher with no college credits. There is a massive teacher shortage and a lot of it has to do with the funding. I know many teachers that put their own money back into the classroom or spend all their free time looking for scholarships. Everything is outdated. When I first started my career path I had another educator try to convince me not to do it. Because of the horrible experience she had. As far as I'm concerned though, someone has to teach our kids and stand up for the education they deserve. Never wanted to be a teacher to get rich anyways, lol. As long as people get active in the education system there is the possibility of change. If people give up, then it's gone.
Myths Flight I'm so glad we still have people like you around. Love you
I'm still considering to be a teacher, but probably having another part-time job.
This is the same story for most state employees. I also have a Bachelor's of Science and work for Kentucky Department of Natural Resources. I haven't received a raise since 2008 and that consisted of a 2% raise! I also received a 1% raise in 2005. Thus, I've received a 3% raise in 15 years! I signed on for a 5% raise per year. What happened to that Kentucky?
J Cheek shoulda joined the military. Man even I'm anti war but with just how shit the civilsector is, you might as well send your ass off to Afghanistan
Raf Tash I actually considered the "military complex", and it was a definite death sentence at that time - 17 years ago! Now, I'm just too old. Actually, that's what I suggest to the up and coming generation.
J Cheek WTF??!!!! Wtf wtf?!!
Anyweather Never ever Yeap, that's my response too! Makes us wonder why we're still hanging around. I think there's about to be a mass exodus.
Ask your politician what's going on there!!! Damn california just raise minimum wages.
As being son of two teachers I have grown with great respect for teachers and they deserve so much more than they get. They do so much and they lead our future. They teach the future but our paid like McDonald’s workers.
Teachers don't teach the future. Teachers present established facts predicated on an approved cirriculum. (with some room for interpretation). Knowledge is determined by the students ability to comprehend and retain information
it’s crazy just how different one area of the United States is from another. im an 8th grader in a wealthy town. even in public school, each student receives a laptop, 3 textbooks, the ability to consult a guidance counselor or phycologist, and so many extracurricular opportunities. i recognize that i am privileged and incredibly lucky, and im so grateful for that. my prayers go out to these teachers and students.
America isn’t willing to invest in its future. This is ridiculous.
as long as we have stupid republican rich men in office, this is how its gonna be
Underfund education - what could possibly go wrong?
I live on the border of Texas and Oklahoma. Even after the strike my history teacher travels to Texas for his teaching job.
How is there an odd number of pupils when everyone has two eyes
Zack Retka lol
But how can life be real when our eyes aren't real?
*students.
lmao
@@Mimi-ur1ur pupils and students are the same thing
The fact that they have whatever people teaching our kids with no certification is really worrisome. But we want teachers to carry guns.. lol
Laurelle Banks America’s fucked
Laurelle - The teachers need the guns to make the children behave. The state banned spanking, so the teachers gotta do somethin.
minceyjs true but these kids won’t even get one between two...
Maybe they can use the guns to shoot poverty? Maybe that way we will win the war on it?
who cares about textbooks, kids can go learn online, almost every house has internet, if they dont there is the school library or public library
Teachers are underpaid everywhere
Yeah but like were I live (europe) you can live off it. Well. O.o I'm shook
Oklahoma was the lowest. Soooooo
Yeah, but Oklahoma is the worst place for teachers. It pays the lowest out of all of the FIFTY states.
But it’s not just pay. Funding is a big problem too. Not having the correct resources can have children seriously fall back. That right at the moment is the biggest problem.
It’s because the South and the West is weak on union jobs. Here in the Midwest the average starting teacher salary is about 35,000-40,000 and your 10 year growth is expected to go up to 60,000. Plus an additional 2,000-5,000 pay raise per degree you have.
Tax cuts for the wealthy and budget cuts for education (working to middle class populations) , why are people voting in the people who came up with the new tax bill???
You know why it's done? Some of the people in the top 1 percent didn't earn their way there (dumb as a rock), and they know that if everyone had access to high quality education, they will no longer be in the 1 percent.
The thing about capitalism dumbass is that you don’t have to be a genius, you just have to provide a good or service that someone wants or needs.
this is terrible but the 4 day school week don’t sound bad.
Kobe Bryant thats what im saying
4 day school weeks are great...when it's year round. However, summer breaks on top of a four day week makes it's hard for kids to retain information.
Yea
It’s a lot harder to teach the kids when they lose a day of instruction.
Who will watch the kid on the 5th day . Most parents struggle for a babysitter
A school that open only 4 days a week in America looool.
Steny Ethan Mathews i live in arizona. Right now, most schools have a half day on monday. They are thinking of going to 4 days.
Dash Medina dang. I didn't even know about this until now. I don't get how this is not a bigger news story
If people dont know, they cant raise a fuss about it. Teachers in az havent gotten a raise in 10 years. Some students are being taught by long term subs. Sometimes teachers get so fed up, they just walk out. Situation is so messed up.
I live in nyc and it’s 5 days
real side of america..
don't y'all make 50 cent an hour over there? You know, because profit is the enemy right? lol
China is worse...
成珍金 real side of China is people killing themselves at iPhone factories 😩
comparing this with my district’s system is nuts.
my high school teachers get a $80k-90k base salary (depending on their degree and how long they have been teaching), then like $5-6k in bonuses, then insurance for their families. we get deliveries of necessary school supplies monthly so the teachers dont have to buy it themselves. for my 12 years in the district, there has never been a teacher strike for pay.
sidenote: the houses in our district have an average cost of like $1.2M so the district makes a lot just collecting property taxes.
another sidenote: lots of my teachers drive 1hr+ to get to work because they can’t afford to live around the school but they aren’t willing to take the huge pay cut by working in another district.
Andrew Yang's right we need to give teachers a raise
Yang2020 for sure
Give them their raises sure, but swap out their cop pensions for 401k's. And remove the strike clause from their gangland contracts. It ain't something for nothing.
You have 87 students in a class? Wow...........
That actually not very big. In NYC and SFO certain middle schools are even worse than that.
Not in one class. in total probably. You know how kids rotate classes 1st, 2nd,3rd, 4th period. But she probably has a lot of kids in each class wich totals 87. So maybe kids will have to share books
@@dolecrash5802 I do not think she has 87 kids in one class. That would be very big. Are you a teacher?
No but I have friends who went to middle school in NYC
Wow this video really changed my mind about the protest. I respect those teachers
I went to college and graduated to be a high school English teacher. I LOVED working with the students. It was my passion. But for many of the reasons the teachers stated here, it just wasn’t possible for me to pursue this career.
This video made me cry because I would love to be as brave as these women, pushing through just for the kids. I am proud of them.
29 textbooks is normal to keep in the classroom right? Like that’s everyone in the class at any one time.
Usually, the students each have a textbook to take home so they can read the next days chapter, and to use as reference for tests and reports.
As a recent graduate from high school, I feel this on a deep level… these problems were present throughout all of school and they got worse and worse, I struggled in school as well, and the teachers just can’t help me, they don’t have the budget to give struggling students help
i wonder how the USA plans to tackle this.
Because its a long term problem.
i think USA wants to remain a military superpower in the future , this requires a lot of technological advancement. technological advancement requires smart people and people are for the majority made smart in universities, but their education begins at a much younger age.
producing smart people with bad elementary schools is very hard
yikes. I’m in ontario and we’re going through this aswell.
my schools textbooks and literally 14 years old
theres pretty much 20 pages or the cover missing on each book and my teacher keeps telling the class to go ask the office for better books
but our school finally built an auditorium last year which probably set them back a lot
West Virginia did it first.
They’ve started a movement.
Let’s hope it continues.
Here in France the school gives you a Lenovo tablet with all your books in it and if you need to buy other books the state gives you a 90 euros cheque to buy it. I’m in a public school btw
Most states do but 4 are just terrible, Alabama, Mississippi and Chicago are the other 3 with terrible funding
I'm in illinois, we get chrome books.
@@parentpatrol2752 and gang violence, schools don't just need tech Chicago has rated number one for gang violence in the classroom for the last 7 years
@@agonicole Yeah, good thing I'm in southern illinois
I live in Texas and we have enough Chromebooks for two classes
Growing up in rural NC the school system here was almost as bad as OK. We did have enough textbooks but they were all falling apart and covering in writing, once my friend found a signature in her textbook with the date written from 1993......this was in 2014. For all 3 years of my middle school experience I had at least one teacher that was in their first year of teaching, my 8th grade social studies teacher quit not even before the first semester so the rest of the year we would come into class and find different substitute teachers until the assistant principal had to come "teach" the class (we just watched documentaries and worksheets that we always ended up finding online)
i live in ohio and we got macbook airs. the school switched to chromebooks for underclassmen tho. i just feel so grateful that my school is able to afford these luxuries
At my high school seniors get a take home car.
Let's see how conservatives try to criticise this.
As a teacher in Puerto Rico I am with you...but having 29 textbooks for that amount of students is seriously not ab issue. They stay in the classroom and they use them when they come in to class. I have 30 textbooks for 100 students and the books are from 2001 and falling apart...As a public school teacher with tenure I make 19,000 after taxes...and I have a Masters Degree...I knew this was the life and like you I understand that it doesnt mean I have to accept the abuse...power to you!
Rafael Capó wow... in my country (switzerland) everyone has numerous text books and some are single use
Rafael Capó
Canadian here. Up until grade 9 (high school), I didn't have personal textbooks.
Up until grade 6, we only had the class notes we took and the printouts we got from the teacher.
Grade 7 and 8 we only had textbooks in history and science, and only enough for half our grade. The teachers solved the problem by assigning different days of the week that each class could sign out textbooks.
We made do. We mostly relied on the notes we took in class. This was before the internet had online free tutorials, lessons, and open textbooks.
The teachers of today have it so much easier with all the free resources online that they can freely copy and distribute.
you have it the worst i'm very sorry im only just on the verge in my school of total economic downfall its slowly falling down down down and after all the stuff you've been through there trump did nothing for you and you get under paid and this is how the federal GVM repays you?!?
19,000 a year with a masters degree. lol loooser should've bailed on the first paycheck.
How can you live in Puerto Rico on 19K a year? What's the tax rate there 50%?
A school cutting a day a week is utterly disgraceful! It’s over a year later I hope it’s improved.
Actually it's been shown that 4 day school days do just as well and better than their 5 day counterparts especially when you have middle aged children. Colleges work on a 4 day schedule for this reason
This makes me so sad i want to give them a hug for being so strong and staying for there kids
woah. this made me open my eyes and realize how fortunate I am to go to I great school where I go five days a week and my English teacher is already easing us into college essay writing and im in middle school. I can also read on my grade level because I went to good schools
And you see my teachers throwing away perfectly useful work sheets that they “aren’t going to use”
I remember the walkout last year. My school was closed for almost three weeks
Too bad your school is only open eight and a half months a year.
Mad respect for you 3 lovely ladies. It takes a lot of patience and time to be in the situation you’re in. A serious problem with no solution until money is available. 😔 I’m glad I went through school and graduated when I did.
It's unfortunate and sad, but its been this way for so long that I think people in the US are numb to this issue. And it won't get better as long as we keep electing officials that put money before morals or reason. The collapse of Rome didn't happen overnight.
Our school is slowly getting less funding I can see that we half to share now but we used to get enough for each
I know how it feels to have this hit. My mom is an MPS teacher, and I first hand see these struggles with discipline issues when I come to school with her every week.
Im here in Oklahoma, and some of the school sytems are SO ducked up
There is always that one teacher that would change your life .. all of them seem like great teachers but I felt Judge Kirk would be one of those special teacher that would really impact a student’s life for the better.
This is so disgraceful that the government literally trims the budget on education. How is this even an option. How are our teachers not handsomely appreciated?
God I suddenly feel so grateful for Singapore. I hope this situation improves for y’all.
In my school district (public, California) some of the teachers are making over 100k. It’s sad to see what’s going on in other regions
2:22 what highschool curriculum still teaches recessive and dominant traits, thats middle school work
You tend to fall behind you you only go tot school 4 days a week and they can’t afford to hire enough teachers
Not every place has the same curriculum lol.
Lemzzz in common core we review yearly
4:11 why is narcos and wakanda written down on the board😭😭😭
My old school didn’t have a math teacher for the 7th graders, and since I’ve left I can’t stop wondering if they got someone.
I as a high school student in Oklahoma went to the capital to protest. It was amazing, seeing so many people and educators there.