June 16, 2022
(This is a work in progress but I wanted to post it on Facebook in order to get some feedback to elaborate on certain parts)
Before I go on to likely offend any teachers that read this, I want to say that teachers make the best lovers. Whenever you do anything wrong, they make you do it over and over until you get it right. Some Catholic teachers might even paddle you if you misbehave. :P :P :P
Now, that said, I think the days of teachers having off for the entire summer (and the kids too) should be phased out.
The original reason for summers off for the kids and thus, the teachers, was the heat and lack of air conditioning. Also, many of the kids worked on their family farms or other family business. I'm not against putting their lazy, video-game-playing asses to work but they can still work weekends or maybe do a work-study program if they will actually have a family job outside of school, right?
Also, teachers used to be grossly underpaid (and some Catholic schools still do pay much lower than their public school counterparts) but nowadays, because of government raises, most public school teachers are making well over $50K a year for only working eight to nine months out of the year.
SNIP - Teacher pay has definitely gone up over time. For example, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, the annual average salary for U.S. public elementary and secondary school teachers was just $8,626 back in 1969 — it increased to $58,950 by 2017 and is approximately $60,000 today. - END SNIP (From -- https://onlinedegrees.sandiego.edu/teacher-salaries-analysis/)
A public school teacher should be a full-time job for teachers and the kids. This would take a lot of stress and headaches off of the parents who have to find daycare for their kids during the summer months.
Now, that said, we also have to get rid of all the nonsense indoctrination that takes place in so many public school districts. This means creating oversight of each school, each school district, each parish/county, each state, etc. to make sure the schools get back to basics of teaching and not political indoctrination.
Since there will obviously be Catholic and other private schools that have a slightly different course outline, if a particular public school wants to lean one way or the other, it can be publicly noted and parents will have the option to move their kids to a different school.
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