Reply #4: Teacher appreciation week is just more of those polite mouthings that people use

[MadHound]

Yet don't really mean. Just like the polite mouthing that education is one of the most important aspects of our society.

The fact of the matter is that teachers and education matter little to people in this country. If they did, they would fund it like they mean it. They would pay teachers the salary they deserve.

Japan and Finland have the two best education systems in the world, and guess what, they pay for it. Teachers are given the same money, and respect in their societies that doctors are given in ours. Facilities are top flight, classrooms are small, children are cared for, schools are well staffed.

But here, we want to do education on the cheap. Worse yet, we have the misguided idea that education funding, and the direction that education takes, are matters that the public in general should have a lot of input on. Thus, it takes a super majority of the voters to gin up the money that schools need, frequently a fruitless task. Worse, we allow anybody, no matter their political agenda, to have administrative power in a school district. Would we run any other critical field in this country like we do education? No, we wouldn't and we don't.

Education is an afterthought in this country, a country that doesn't value intelligence or education.