Elysabeth BrittCompte certifié

People spout all kinds of nonsense about teacher pay in Oklahoma and I sense a lot of it has to do with how they perceive “bad” performing schools. “Maybe if teachers did better they’d have higher pay” No.

Teachers don’t have better pay in Oklahoma because we don’t budget properly and it takes a supermajority in the legislature or a vote of the people to have a tax increase. You can’t cut spending enough to pay teachers more. You surely can’t your way to prosperity.

Our teachers are loving. Our teachers are caring. But our legislature doesn’t seem to think they are worth it. This hurts the business community, job prospects, and the greater economy. So stop the thinly veiled racist statements about “higher test scores” & “bad teachers”

I love teachers. I've been one myself in a different setting. People tend to blame "test scores" and "bad teachers" as you say, but that's not the issue with education. The underlying problem is the way the system is designed. We're still running classrooms based off the 1880's.

Young people today have grown up learning by interacting with technology. The current system in the majority of schools doesn't incorporate this into the curriculum. Instead, we insist they sit there quietly and study what's on the board/take notes. It's a foreign concept to them