Your argument was that American teachers are paid shit. Reality is that the feds have zero impact on teacher salaries (it's entirely up to each district/ state).
And if I was 22 years old with a $65k salary, I'd be pretty jacked up and having a great time.
Amazing to think that societies who put a strong cultural emphasis on education and discipline score in the top 10 in every category every year.
Ok. Sure. That’s a standard right wing game of trying to compartmentalize things within an economy or society when everything is in fact intertwined.
The reality is that federal policy aka the fed has everything to do with education as it relates to social benefits and or capital investment which then directly and indirectly impact teachers, their students, the students families and the communities the students live in. And yes, those investments by the fed do impact local wages in that the local school district would then not have to account for federally subsidized capital outlays in their year over year budget and could in turn direct those resources to say teacher salaries.
If you were making 65k a year I don’t think you’d be “jacked” if you were living in most major metropolitan housing markets.
I do not disagree with the cultural emphasis argument. I will say that the best way to demonstrate that education is “culturally significant” in my opinion would be to invest in not only the educational institutions but also the social benefits needed to support children, families and entire communities in order to allow them to fully participate in and take advantage of this supposed priority.