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stewie3128 ,

American people can demand all they want, but he’s not resigning, and you’re never going to get 2/3 of the openly-corrupt Senate to vote to remove him.

stewie3128 ,

We need a Kickstarter.

stewie3128 ,

25 years ago in my suburban Chicago public high school district, my stats teacher brought out the teacher pay schedule for us to play with.

There were six columns:

Bachelors, bachelors+30, bachelors+60 Masters, masters+30, masters+60

The +30 or +60 refer to credit hours of additional college coursework

Each row showed the number of years of experience.

In 1998, the upper-left (fresh out of college, no experience) salary was around $38,500 or something.

The bottom right (masters+60 or doctorate, and 30 or 35 years of experience [I forget]) was $151,000. And they got a great pension (fatter than what teachers in IL starting now will get).

You also got a small multiplier for each extra curricular you ran.

We had mostly excellent teachers as a result. Couple of duds too, but that’s life. 70+% of graduating seniors went to college of some kind within two years. I believe I went to a good school.

But this is what happens when you fund schools through property taxes: the good neighborhoods get good schools, and it propels a virtuous cycle. The bad neighborhoods get bad schools, and they just spiral downward. It’s a dumb way to fund education.

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