Jon Stewart has taken up the teacher pay issue, brilliantly.
For Richer or Poorer: Teachers versus Wall Street
Teachers are destroying America
I honestly do not know how the commentators in the first clip can live with themselves.
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Stewart probably sends his kids to private school (most liberal elite do), so who is he to talk?
Such a knee jerk response based on the old ‘liberal elite’ trope is beneath somebody of your sophistication.
I was actually sympathetic to the argument that the banks couldn’t weasel out of contracts they’d promised when it came to bonuses. Contracts are contracts. I don’t really understand how you get a bonus if it’s performance-based and your company is circling the drain, but contracts are promises. But if contracts are contracts for bankers, they are for teachers as well.
Salary caps are stupid policy for any labor market sector, so to see the Fox News crowd slobbering over them for teachers should make anybody sick.
Stewart’s right here, no matter where he sends his kids to school.