Dennis Miller rant in 1995 aged like very fine wine
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He claims that schools went to shit and people are dumb because we don't pay teachers enough....?
I'd say there's a grain of truth there. To my knowledge we as a nation are one of the top spenders on 'education', but the lion's share of that goes to administration; useless bureaucracy and middle-management types looking to justify their existence who therefore come up with ever more bullshit for the actual educators to deal with. Simultaneously the teachers get rather shit pay for the amount of bullshit they put up with, from admin, parents, and students alike.
So if you're competent in your field, you have little incentive to get into teaching besides the goodness of your heart... or activism. An activist will put up with low pay to achieve their goals. An activist will almost certainly idealogically align with the overpaid, overeducated administration. An activist knows the value of getting to the kids early while their minds are still forming and poisoning them with D.I.E., Marxism, and all the rest.
I don't think that, at this point, throwing more money at it could fix the issue. I think education needs to be further decentralized: more homeschooling, private schools, even pooling resources and hiring a good teacher to 'homeschool' the kids in your neighborhood could work. Just make it easier to not be stuck in the government school system.
A grain of truth, but not even close to the main problem which is why it annoys me when he says it like that.
I think there is truth that contributes to the current problem regardless. Like the user below says the low salary only attracts barely competent losers that only want to exploit children for their own benefit and intentionally dumb them down while the high quality candidates end up going somewhere else.
And there is some excuse for Dennis Miller that he didn't know just how worse the gravity of the education system was. He just skimmed on the surface and used it as a material for his jokes. He was just a standup comedian after all and I bet he just heard it from someone else that was the problem. Back then nobody seems to have brought up how bad the education system was. I only heard education system is getting bad a few years after No child left behind act got implemented.
Depends on the city. Teachers in NYC are paid extremely well and they're still a bunch of worthless commies.