Last night I met up with my favorite English teacher, a lifelong friend who teaches both high school and college courses.
In thirty-five years of teaching, she has never been more worried about her students.
I don't expect the average US teacher ($58,260) to make as much as the average pro athlete (NBA: $8.3 million, MLB: $4 million, NFL: $3.2 million, NHL: $2.6 million), but I would expect to make more than the average NBA, MLB, NFL and NHL MASCOT ($60k).
We make over four million students take the PSAT every year. They compete for one of just 2500 scholarships.
Their odds are roughly comparable to a random teenage football player making it to the NFL.
Just think about that waste of school time, energy, and mental health.
if you're not following what's happening in Columbus, OH – it's time to tune in. the teachers' union just voted unanimously to give their 10-day strike notice. the current contract expires in two weeks and the teachers are fighting for what #ColumbusStudentsDeserve.
Only in America do public school teachers race one another to scrounge around on the floor to collect $1 bills in order to... *checks notes* fund their classrooms.
This isn't heartwarming. It's dysfunctional, dystopian shit.
BREAKING: Trump just officially withdrew the US from the World Health Organization at the height of a pandemic. This is the dumbest f**king thing I've ever heard.