will47 wrote:
If you really look at this issue, and I have, most teachers are underpaid because money for raises etc. goes to worthless administrators, principals etc. who do absolutely nothing for insane amounts of money.
I was being a bit light-hearted about the issue because the subject was a meme. But I absolutely agree with you. Where I live, the school district spent many millions updating the physical plant, mostly in new landscaping for the schools and nothing was spent in the classroom on teacher's salaries, books or anything else. It costs me nearly two thousand dollars a year for my grandson to play in the school marching and concert bands, because the school district must offer them but pays almost nothing of the cost. The booster clubs run fund-raisers all year and hold "Band spectaculars" to raise the nearly $200,000 cost of running the program. When I was in high school, all of that was fully funded.