Teachers continue to fight in Wisconsin for quality education. We are paying attention to their efforts, meanwhile right here in North Carolina the General Assembly is considering legislation to limit teacher pay and school funding and basing pay strictly on merit and eliminating a pay schedule all together. Educators are consistently sent a contradicting message from government from "We are falling behind in education compared to nations around the world and we need to step up our efforts to improve," to "We must cut funding in schools in order to meet or to make a budget." Government "leaders" you cannot have your cake and eat it too. You cannot cut teacher pay, school funding, eliminate teaching positions and reduce the resources available AND expect the quality of education to improve. It is an impossibility.
You cannot make up for the mistakes of the past at the cost of our future!
The students of today are the ones who will ultimately pay the price and in turn our nation will continue to fall further and further behind making it more and more difficult for the United States to compete in the global economy.
As a teacher in North Carolina, I have had my salary frozen for 2 years with the projection for it to be the same for 2 more. Yet rates of inflation continue to rise, gas prices are soaring. With the increased cuts in school and the elimination of teacher positions, my classroom (a doublewide trailer) is about bursting at the seams with students. I am unable to devote enough attention to each student to determine their needs and target their learning. And yet, if we go to a merit based system, my salary will be based on how difficult the government makes it for me to teach my students.
To all my NC friends, please pay attention to what is going on, write the state legislature, let them know that cutting teach pay and school funding is not the way to make North Carolina and the United States ready for the future. Let them know that you support education and its promise for the future. Use the link below to send a message directly to the members of the NC Senate and NC House Appropriations committees.
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