Most minority kids drop out of school. Most minority girls have babies out of wedock. How can the 26-year old mother of a 13 year old kid help her child with school work when she's only got a 6th grade education herself? (And don't forget that the percentage of caucasian girls giving birth out of wedlock is also rising!)
Now, below I'm going to share Rush's analogy about teachers and money, then I'll explain why I think, on this occasion, his analogy doesn't hold water.
RUSH: Quick little question here, folks. If you pay teachers more, which is what we're told we have to do every year -- I mean we can go back, I'll bet you I could go back as far as LBJ. I'll bet you I could go back to Eisenhower. As long as there was video to be found, I'll betcha we could go back to all these presidents, every damn one of them talking about education and how we need more money, we need to invest more in education. The education of our children, why, that's the most important thing in our country, why, we cannot waste a single moment, why, we must not leave a single child behind, takes a village to raise a bunch of idiots. We need more education dollars. I'm choking on that I've heard it so damn much, right?
Now, if we pay teachers more and that means you get better education, why don't we double the pay of plumbers and electricians, get better running water, get better traveling electricity. Yeah, we pay the plumbers more, we pay the electricians more, pipefitter, yeah, we get more electricity, cheaper price, we get more plumbing, better flushes, don't need to call Roto-Rooter as much. The more we spend the better pipes we've got. Do we get better oil when the price of oil goes up. Is the quality of the oil any better? Do we get better bread when the price of wheat goes up? Are we gonna attract better plumbers and better electricians and better oil rig workers and farmers and so forth? But yet when it comes to education all of that's stood upside down on its head. Why, magic is going to happen if we just spend more on education. And look where we are in Wisconsin in that regard.
Okay, here's the thing. If teachers aren't paid well, $50,000 and up per year, who in the world would want to be a teacher, and have to deal with parents, and children, from hell? I'd be willing to bet that there's at least one spoiled, rotten brat in every class, who does his or her best every day to get the teacher's goat or basically just make his or her life miserable every single day. Frankly I don't know why anyone would want to teach kids - at least from 3rd grade to 12th grade - without making at least $100,000 a year!
But let's say that you go to college and get your student loan debt. Then you want to get a job. And you have a choice between Walmart which (if the Unions have their way) will have to pay $15 an hour, or teaching, which also pays $15 an hour. If you are a checker for Walmart you have to stand on your feet and deal with customers all day, but at least you don't have to worry about some rotten kid trying to make a fool of you every day in front of 30 other students, talking back to you, swearing at you, etc. etc. So if you get paid the same amount of money but one job is a helluva lot less aggravating than the other, that's the job you'd choose.
Is an intelligent person going to go to school to learn how to be a nurse, if he or she is paid only $15 an hour, whereas if they become an accountant, or a lawyer, they can earn $150 an hour? No - they'll become accountants or lawyers, and we'll have to import our nurses from the Phillipines, and hope they speak English.
The same thing with plumbers. WHo in their right minds would become a plumber and work with sh*t once or twice a week, or whatever it is they do, for $15 an hour. They might do it for $30 or $45, and can you blame them? But then again, I can see paying one plumber that much an hour, but not to have two plumbers come out, one to supervise the other, as they do in unions... but that's a separate issue.
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