“I have some ants” “Well my ants are taller than yours” “I have a tube of glue” “Well i have a whole tin of it” “I have a loaf pf bread” “Woah sorry i can’t deal with that with my glue tin and taller ants”
For your next “fun” level, we all know how fun sewer levels are. Everyone also loves maze levels, and everyone love dark levels. Why not make a partial underwater level, in the dark, an a maze while hunting for red coins?
Gotta apprechiate the editor not only putting in some music but also manually cutting it and adding fades at appropiate points so it sounds like it's part of the game. Honestly without the little text at the start I don't think I would have ever noticed. Incredible job!
At my old high school there was a year where it got really bad, the teachers couldn't even get copier paper. A year or two later when a new principal arrived in the school, he was reviewing the schools financials and found an account where the old principal and treasurer had hidden away over $70,000 for the principals own spending.
We got scolded for our usage of copier paper about 2 weeks ago, and were told we "may not have paper for the second semester." I work in Special Education, so sometimes I'm printing 30 pages off at a time for an IEP, and that's not including the 20 or so pages for consent forms, and paperwork in general. It's frustrating to hear that from people.
+1 to that. There are answers though, to why people don't invest in things like education and health care. In a nutshell, it's because, for the most part, the people who have the resources to fix things... are the same people who think a hierarchic society is better than an egalitarian society. Helping the masses would reduce the power differential between classes, and they view that as a bad thing. There's a ton of fascinating research on the topic, in addition to centuries of publications by people who created the structure of modern society, and ... it doesn't paint a pretty picture of how and why we got here.
the average pay for teachers in the US is double the average pay in general. pretty sure you can afford basic home office supplies on $5k/mo. every trade require buying your own specialty tools, which are hundreds of dollars. and school budgets have steadily increased while performance has steadily decreased.
@@TheJacklikesvideos there’s a lot of holes in that comment, so let me go point by point here and explain where you’ve gone astray. “The average pay for teachers in the US is double the average pay in general. pretty sure you can afford basic home office supplies on $5k/mo” The first sentence should serve as an indictment of how low the average pay in America is. $30,000 a year won’t even cover a years rent for a studio apartment in some states, let alone food, utilities, sanitary products, clothing, etc. Which leads to my next point, the average household in America spends $5,111 per person per month. I guess teachers can pay for school supplies with the -$111 they have? “Every trade require[s] buying your own specialty tools” Sure some do, but I don’t think it’s a majority, factory workers don’t have to buy their own car manufacturing robots for example. Other trades like carpenters or construction workers might, but a hammer doesn’t need to be replaced every few months so long as you’re using it right. Post-it notes, paper towels, and markers do. It’s a monthly expense for teachers not a one time entrance fee that you might need to replace every 10 years. “And school budgets have steadily increased while performance has steadily decreased.” Here’s the problem with national averages, if the range is increasing on a variable, the average is skewed to the outliers. If you look at it from a state by state basis however, you’ll find that states like MA, CT, and NJ have higher standardized test scores than average and have higher teacher pay than average, the inverse is true for states like LA, NM, and AL. And this is a trend across all states not just those six. States like the former are pulling the average budget up, while states like the latter are pulling the performance down. Sorry for the long post, but I don’t want your claims to go unchallenged. Let me know if you think I’m wrong in any of my assessments :)
@@TheJacklikesvideos The average teacher's salary is about 25% less than what officially counts as a living wage. Until that's fixed, there's no way teachers should be required to spend their own paycheck to buy basic supplies for the school.
@@TheJacklikesvideos What trade requires you buying your own tools outside of being self-employed? If I get a job as a carpenter, then the company that hires me is the one who supplies the tools, work clothes, and personal safety equipment. If I get a job as a coder, the company that hires me supplies the computers to work on and the software that is used. Same if I get a job at a film studio, or visual art or effects studio, or game development studio. Do you think the artists at Disney had to buy their own pens and erasers back in the day? Do you think they are paying for their own Maya subscriptions? The only people who buy their own equipment are self-employed, and it can be argued that it isn't the person themselves who buys the stuff because it's usually bought as a write-off to their own company. The only way a teacher could use school supplies as a tax write off is if they were independent contractors. Any place of work that requires you to buy your own tools is a scam.
1:52 Fun fact! You were actually killed by a lava bubble, not a podabo; podabos have eyes, and feature prominently in 3D games like Galaxy or Odyssey. Even though it might be rare to see both of them in the same place at the same time (SMW is the only instance that comes to mind), they’re still “categorized” differently. The more you know!
@@LunizIsGlacey He also has it backwards; they were originally classified as Podaboos without eyes, and in SMW is when they were first referred to as Lava Bubbles, as well as had eyes.
dave is amazing, adding the music and stopping it at certain parts to make it seem like it was actually in the level is great, watching stream it did feel a little empty. if there's one thing though, i do really wish he kept in when carl makes predictions, and that goes for every video, bc sometimes discussions come out of nowhere with no context like talking about podobos being alive doesn't make any sense unless you know he was doing a prediction about dying to something alive. just a small thing that would help with context about things that happen outside just gameplay. Still great editing nonetheless :)
I don't make the stream often, so waking up to some Carl is always great. Thank you for your random inspirational talks about the educational system. You inspired and gave me the courage to go back to school for drug and alcohol counseling. You have no clue the effect you have on this world, but you're very loved. Thanks for all the good times and content, Carl!
"Une chose qui m’humilie profondément est de voir que le génie humain a des limites, quand la bêtise humaine n’en a pas" - Alexandre Dumas, not Einstein.
@@LordDragox412 Not like I know who said what. But I do know that two geniuses can say the same thing, or share the same ideas. Regardless of past/nationality. I just wanted to point that out.
In my school in Sweden in the 90-ties our classrooms had one of those pull down maps in front of the blackbord where Germany was unified, this was not a new map...
This rant about the school system resonates with everything I heard about it. And I'm not US-based. The same issues, the same lack of basic resources, the same lack of large scale actions. School teachers that tries to keep things going ends up broken faster and faster, resulting in school having less motivated people in place, which have an even greater impact on kids. A terrible state of affair knowing the resources we pour in many other things.
Honestly, the thing that makes me most angry is how much we spend on our military and defense as opposed to our education system. Like fucking seriously. Forego funding a few extra bombs in favor of improving the resources provided to schools.
There are people who benefit from an inadequately funded education and people voting for stupid things, and these people work to make sure the situation stays as horrible as it can.
Unfortunately, in a lot of these cases, pouring money into the schools often does very little to improve grades across America. Incompetence and corruption of administrators keeps the money from being used effectively, and teacher unions keeps bad teachers from getting sacked. A good teacher friend of mine recently moved into private schooling from the public system, and the difference he noticed in quality of education, funding, safety, performance, etc. is apparently astounding.
@@atlas4247 The incompetence and corruption of administrators, and the utter lack of accountability for them, is by design, as is the ridiculous amount of paperwork and micromanaging of the teachers by the administrators. There is an ongoing effort to destroy the public school system and force both teachers and students into private schooling. Folks like Betsy DeVos have publicly said it is their goal.
Controller snapback has caused me a lot of frustration in Dead Cells. So many attempts at getting 60 kills in a level without getting hit thwarted thanks to that.
Hey, about that school system rant at the end, the same shit happens here in Scotland, at least in my school which is admittedly on multiple lists of the worst schools in Scotland and not exactly at a good spot either haha
My brother and his wife both got Masters degrees in Education and became high school teachers. They were super passionate about it and good at it, but they only did it for like 5 years because it totally burned them out. People complain that we don't have enough good teachers, but that's because a lot of good teachers burn out and leave for jobs where they're treated better and paid much better. If teachers were treated well and funded well our educational system could change rapidly. School teacher should be a competitive job market, not one of the worst jobs around
I've heard people argue, seeming sincere, that teachers need to be paid peanuts to ensure they're doing it for the love of teaching instead of for the money, and that paying them a fair salary and giving them a budget for classroom supplies is unfair government competition with the private workforce.
Two reasons teachers need to buy their own supplies: 1) School taxes in America are funded by local tax dollars, so the schools financially self-segregate. Richer people buy their houses around where the nice schools are, and the tax dollars pool there 2) Administrators waste what little is allotted on things like varsity sports, cosmetic things, hiring more admins etc. instead of prioritizing fixing the buildings, providing supplies or paying higher teacher salary. This is why teaching is a union job.
Governments are also incredibly well-known for being some of the least capable entities with regards to efficient spending. Corruption aside, there really is no risk to a government entity allocating funds for anything(schools included) because if they create a financial failures, they can just print or tax more money, rather than be allowed to fail as any bad business should.
@@atlas4247 Do you genuinely think that your local government is able to print money? That the reps for your state have a money printing machine? Seriously, think a little.
Appreciate the rant/support for teachers and education. I was teaching for 5 years and left due to just the lack of basic necessities and the ask to do more with less. Hopefully I can give back somehow as I get into tech
Your school system rant hit home real hard. My wife wasn't even a teacher at the school and we were spending our money to get supplies. The store I worked for had an excess of school supplies, so when we ended up damaging out a bunch of the basic necessities (paper, pencils, erasers, notebooks, etc...) I ended up loading them into my truck so the kids would have what they needed. My boss knew what was up, so he made sure there was enough to go around, but seriously it's ridiculous. The biggest issue is school funding is based on how well kids take tests and not on what they actually need, so districts are forced to supply the best performing schools and screw the rest just to keep funded.
unfortunately the school issue isnt extremely common its the norm. my school provides $100 for teachers $200 for new teachers and thats incredibly uncommon. however they dont provide any furniture besides desks so that 100-200 has to go to buying bookshelves and floor lamps to make the room comfortable enough that the kids want to learn. libraries in classrooms are scarce and most non-city schools dont have libraries period. even class sets of books have to be bought by the teacher
I probably spend about $250+ per semester on supplies. Fortunately I've been able to cut down on a lot of it. There are grants and stuff such as "Donor's Choose" that teachers can use to get supplies free.
In public schools in Brazil, it is very common for parents to donate that same basic stuff to the school yearly... And yeah, professors are paid like shyte, AND treated like shyte depending on which school they teach at.
God that rant at the end hit me so hard. I’m studying to be a teacher right now and this is the thing I’m most worried about. I want to be able to make a very good classroom for the kids that I’ll teach in the future, but being passionate can only get you so far 😢
I appreciate your rant! I'm a teacher at a decently funded school. We have enough for every teacher to get a ~$150 stipend for supplies for the year, and the district fronts money for basic supplies like markers, pencils, paper, cleaning supplies, etc. I feel fortunate and very supported, but what we're allocated barely gets us by, and my salary is barely comfortable for a bachelor with roommates to help pay the mortgage. I couldn't imagine having a family and trying to support a class at an underfunded school. And I still hear community complaints about teachers advocating for higher pay because we get summer break (setting aside 55-60 hours/week being normal for teachers 10 months of the year, along with summer meetings, lesson prep, summer school, second jobs, etc.). So, thank you, Carl. Signed, a teacher that just got off a 16-hour work day, who found your video a welcome respite--just the break I needed.
this whole school not having funds is because the higher ups/admins get paid too damn much. I know the admins at my school make well over 100k a year while teachers make roughly 45k. Maybe a GDQ type event to raise money for school supplies could help, make it a school field trip event?
actually, a lot of it is because school funding is based on property taxes in the area... so if the property around them is valued poorly, then the school gets buggerall in funding... so poor communities arent just shafted, they also get worse education to make sure they stay shafted
@ Boos take a while to accelerate, so what you need to do is move left, wait a second or so, then move right, wait a second or so, and so forth. Instead, Carl just keeps moving constantly, so the boos never get up to speed and just inch forward slowly. Or until Carl remembers he needs to be more patient.
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@@hurkyl1560 now I see what you meant. You're right.
Know what's even more messed up? This year, teachers got fired for the duration of summer vacation (6 weeks) in Germany so that schools don't have to pay their off-time, and now they have to work in the summer vacation to even survive. If I were a teacher at such a school, I wouldn't want to work at that school anymore, and incite my colleagues to not work there either anymore.
My wife also left her teaching job to home tutor. She was tired of constant abuse, overworking, and underpaid all while getting horrific emails from the parents that everything was her fault among man other things. Thanks for speaking up!
Yea, not only school is really undervalued and teachers here suffer from students, but we still think an army is better to fund (including buying viagra btw, not even a meme) than funding teachers and schools. We have such a high unemployment rate, so many people suffering from poverty and depending on the limited resources from people that take what little they have to help others, and yet there are people who still believe poor people have a choice and that funding an internal war is better than funding education and a base for people that actually need it. Brazil is fucked up in that sense.
Re teachers having to buy their own supplies - my theory is that people expect that because most schools are public schools that public school funds are already allocated for such things, so they don't bother helping or even thinking about it further, even if the truth semester to semester ends up completely the opposite. Combine that with the fact that they're already worried about having to buy supplies for their own kids and you have a recipe for instant apathy.
That's the thing, people who DO think do come to that conclusion. There are two dimensions to the problem; People who don't think (which in my experience is usually intentional because some people dislike being wrong or having to come even close to facing their cognitive dissonance) and people who don't care (some people just have no want for a better world or even for things to better for themselves). For both groups, it's largely a lack of effort in a different way.
A horse walks into a bar. The bartender asks him "What do you think you'll have today? The horse says "I don't think", and disappears. Now to really get this joke I'd have to explain the concepts of French philosophers... But that's putting Descartes before the horse.
@@Damariobros Same here! There’s also an ‘avoid the frog suit’ boss battle. But it turns out you have to get it, and then get hit, but your chance to take damage is gone by the time you realize it.
@@extorkdabreakz My anti is basically, there's conveyers in a two-high passage and the pipe poops you out straight into the frog suit, and you pretty much have to duck-jump your way to the saw… but there are 3 holes you can fall into, and the path back is one-high and it requires some weird maneuvering and specifically-timed duck-jumps to get into it. One of the holes is under the saw, which is on tracks btw If you get into the anti from the cp1 by the end, I'm planning, it'll drop a bumper onto the same track the saw is, and you could have a chance of getting bumped into the hole instead, and you can't stay on the tiny ledge with the saw to cheese the anti :3 Also there are some extra frog suits in the one-high path back to the start lol
@@Damariobros sounds brutal. But I’d love to play it. I have a small frog anti with a pipe on the left just pooping out frog suits. You have a 2 tile halway to the right that releases podoboos from hidden blocks as you jump. Sounds easy, but it’s hard to time with the frog suits from the pipe.
I uploaded a standalone level for my anti, if you'd like to check it out. The code is RGN-X2Q-CLF It was before I nerfed it tho, so it has two extra bumpers in it if you so choose to play it on cp1 mode
Unforunately we live in a very egoistic reality, people don't seem to care about anything other than themselves and whenver they do help, its for social media likes, it sucks. You should be able to help small causes and people near you without the need to put it in public, not only is diminishing for the person who asked help (not all times but sometimes it is) but it just means you're not helping because you want to help, you're helping to make others think you're a great person. I'm glad she was able to get everything she needed and i unfortunately believe there are so many others like herself out there. Goes a long way when you realize you can only stay alive and have a comfortable life as long as other people are doing the things you probably dislike or hate/would hate doing, so being kind and helping those around is will ALWAYS be the way to go.
One of my teachers had this book that talked about a school teacher's salary, and one of the pages said, "We believe in education so much that an average teacher receives 1/200 the yearly salary of a professional football player," or something like that. It just compared the salary of teachers to non-essential jobs, and it's staggering
I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean. Football is an entertainment service that is in very high demand and they make a lot of money from that. They make that much money because they generate that much money. Teachers (and all school staff), oppositely, are a government-paid positions. Their income doesn't reflect their revenue. Are they suggesting that the government garnish the income of football players and give it to teachers? How would that be fair to the football players? Or are they suggesting that teachers be paid the same as professional football players? Would that be fair to taxpayers?
So as my wife is a teacher kindergarten and my brother a math teacher in high-school it depends what your school gives you. So grade school is unforgiving and they don't hardly give you shit (I think she gets a couple hundred to spend which gets used for colored printing throughout the year). All of her supplies come from the class parents and if they are out they are out unless we buy something. (As we now put a budget on her classroom because we can't spend thousands of dollars just to fuel the classroom). My brother doesn't have this problem. He needs markers because he teaches math and has the printing for his math stuff. High school is little bit easier but then it comes to budgets for calculators and tools like that for the kids so they don't need to supply it themselves... Overall our school system is in a problem and won't pull out unless they decide hey give more money to the teachers for thier classroom (not going to happen) or hey let's not pay them like they work 9 months at 40 hours because idk about you but I'm usually there helping my wife decorate and she brings work home with her regularly. (50 hours pretty standard for here and my brother due to grading/lesson planing). This also won't happen because who cares about education... whole system is broke just like the kids who get passed along because and I quote "not my problem". I love it when the teacher cares more about the issues than the parents as well. I've heard it all.
"I know, it's not the billionaires' fault; we need systemic change to fix these things" (paraphrased slightly, can't be bothered to rewind for exact quote) The thing is, *many* of those billionaires instead spend their money actively fighting that very systemic change...so uhh, yeah it's still their fault a lot of the time.
Well if you're in a system that enables your worst behaviour change is disincentivised and since you're rich and thus powerful you'll just fight change. It's unfortunate but they just follow their class interest. Nothing you can really fault them for.
@@erisesoteric7571 I...can and will fault someone for acting in their own self-interest if it's at the expense of others. Like, I can understand *why* they do it and accept the fact that they're going to do it, but I can certainly also hold it against them / judge them for it.
@@ThomasWinget It's just the system perpetuating itself. You shouldn't hold individuals responsible for the structural problems our political and economic systems have as this will just lead to you replacing the people rather than the systems that create them.
It's mostly the fault of the less-rich-but-still-rich people though. Y'know, the ones who say "But I'm only making $50,000, you can't raise my taxes, that's an outrage". Not because they're individually doing the worst, but because they're the largest population fighting against improved public services. There's way more of them than there are billionaires.
@@LtLabcoat the vast majority of any major tax hikes are for people earning over 100k, and a large portion are for those earning much more than that, 50k is anything but rich, fuck that's barely middle class -Edit for bad auto correct
The worst part is, some are only teachers for the absolute power trip without needing any actual real effort. There's a reason there almost seems to be no in between between really nice subs and subs who want to power trip in schools.
Love the school rant Carl. Me and my girlfriend work 40hrs a week and wearily make our bills while eating Ramen and canned tuna. This is a horrible time for our country. Thank you for being a positive role mode for the parentless generation.
Very good rant subject. I have a 5th grader. We are a month into school and we are already getting letters from his teacher with things she needs. We buy ziploc bags. Clorox wipes. Snacks. Hand sanitizer. Kleenex. Plus all the other essential supplies for class. She already needs more. They get paid absolutely nothing, and are expected to dip into their check for more things. And times are hard for a lot of families right now who can’t help buy more items on the “needed” list. Teachers are so underpaid and under appreciated.
My friend was a kindergarten teacher in the US and in a school district that was in an area of lower income families. So on top of kids not having access to school items, most of their parents/guardians are working multiple jobs each to just live and have food on the table. My friend who is he teacher constantly is pouring her own money into her classroom, every year she even goes to the dollar store to make things work cheaper which isn’t great but it helps with prices. It’s wild as education is such a foundation for every person and everywhere, you’d think it would be a top priority.
With regards to your school system rant, the question is why it isn't the parents who equip their children for school and why the teacher has to pay it for them. If government was taking care of it, it would be taking money from pockets of the same parents through taxes. They can pay for it directly as well. I think it's even cheaper this way. If you make billionaires pay for such things, guess how will get the money for it? By paying their employees less. It's the same thing all around.
As someone who worked on vaccines it's weird saying Gates does a lot of good when he was instrumental in maintaining patent protections, preventing covid vaccines from going to low income countries
It's important to remember that the average content creator is just as ignorant and susceptible to marketing/propaganda as any other person. As much as I like Carl and his videos/streams, you'll maintain a lot more respect for him if you just skip the non-game parts.
I’m a second year teacher and super appreciate the rant at the end ❤ it’s hard because I feel like I shouldn’t have to be spending things on my room but sometimes you just need to have those resources. It really adds up
It's amazingly kind of you Carl to help out that teacher like that and yes I agree it is kind of sad the state that the system is in is at some point in the future although I don't think I'll be around to see it I still hope amazingly funny level by the way it loved it
A lot of my teachers bought stuff for their classroom out of their own money, they’re super underpaid and a lot of them were really cool, the school system is incredibly neglected in a lot of places and it really sucks, from payment to what is being taught I think something needs to change. After going all the way through school and thinking about college I can describe school as just a very long memory test, if you are able to remember more things the better you’ll do.
I remember one of my teachers said he would do a dance if his chalk blackboard got upgraded to a marker whiteboard. And eventually it did happen in that year.
My wife is a 1st grade teacher and she is not allowed to ask the parents to buy facial tissues for there kids. She has a small stock from the government (that only lasts a few weeks) then she needs to provide for the rest of the year.
Someone in my chat from Germany said teacher did make good pay but no mention of if they need to buy their own supplies. Absolutely crazy still If they don’t
@24:30 this is a great question that talks about incentives and why would do one versus the other, and how nebulous and intangible an "education" ends up being and how easy it is to dismiss as a thing because why spend money when literally 70% of humans barely hit the "average". jeff has a lot of things he could pay, his employees are kind of the main ones to start with, but then, the rest of the world, right? who is gunna be around when everyone's dead from not getting paid enough, jeff? to buy your shit? lol its always backwards, and the amount of power we actually hold is insane, and how people see themselves in the scope of it all versus the individual's power to do anything. good stuff,
I think the school funding differs between schools. I go to public school on the east coast and our teachers are provided resources from a care closet we have in our school. My dad teaches in a different district from me and he can get almost anything school-related for free.
I live in England and my girlfriend is a English secondary school teacher. I 100% agree with what your saying. I she regularly has to buy basic pens and notepads ect to keep the kids going and she does not get any refund for them. For how much time and effort she has to put in after she finished work she's working at home and planning and creating lessons and ideas, she will probably earns less then an average worker if you considered the hours she puts in at home. She's really passionate about her job, but the system seems to be broken.... Worldwide.
Part of the problem with schools is taxes. When they have a tax levy pass (lets say 1 million), if the population grows (build houses, people move into empty apartments, etc.), the amount of taxes coming in is still the same amount. More people do not equal more money coming in. The amount of taxes people pay (each person per year) actually goes down. The total amount (1 million) stays the same.
My brother is a project manager and consultant and he works with government projects from time to time. One of the more recent projects he worked on was for Oklahoma. Basically he was hired to try to make the state government more efficient and the shit he found was just so absurd. Btw most of this stuff is not just Oklahoma which is what makes it even more scary. None of these agencies used any kind of software to track anything, including the hours that their employees worked. And since these employees are paid on the hour and they get overtime, there were many cases where an individual would effectively double their salary by claiming they worked extra overtime. And if course, none of this was verifiable because all of it was logged on pen and paper. Worst still, when you requisition something for a project, there are miniums that the item needs to cost before it needs to be logged. In other words, enployees would buy themselves computers and trucks and commit rampant fraud against the tax payers because the cost of these items was just under that minimum. And again, if you wanted to verify that these items actually were being used for the job, you would need to go and verify it personally. In Oklahoma the also have a rule that doesn't let a government agency oversee a different one. Aka, there is no accountability because if an entire department is commiting fraud, the only people who can do anything about it are people in that department. Meanwhile, many counties in that state don't even have 5 day school weeks because they can't afford to stay open. So basically, the system works in such a way that if you commit fraud you can get away with it in favor of paying for education for the next generation (among other things). It's so damned wasteful and just absolutely insane. My brother was dropped from that contract because he suggested that they use tracking software and stop using paper to log everything. The overseers all basically just outright admitted that doing so would lose them money because they couldn't easily keep getting away with fraud.
I am a teacher and in Mexico there are even more issues because technology is not a hundred per cent priority. I give classes online to schools in the US and I haven't even started because schools do not have the equipment to start working. It
Carl, you're such a good person. Thing is, most people think the system should provide for people. Socialist policies are incredibly popular and, as you say, money saving in the long run - even from a capitalist's perspective. The problem is that short term profits is what's incentivized and what keeps companies afloat. And billionaires tend to be bad people, because their power and wealth alienates and detaches them from the rest of society.
Saying it's not the billionaires faults and that we need systemic change would be fair if the billionaires didn't fight tooth and nail against that systemic change.
I'm an artist, so in the school I work at they like to ask me to do projects, but then they step back on the ideas because I ask for money and/or materials. It's lovely, they don't only want me to do the work for free, they want me to buy all the materials and want me to use my students as assistants.
I usually don't really watch the last segments, every now and again i do. But when I saw school system, I felt that and I had to keep watching. Excellent points.
24:46 Because those things don't make the investors money and they would rather make money than help. They're using both hands to further their own interests when they should be reaching back with one hand to help people.
in 2019 the United States spent $752,000,000,000.00 that is stole from property owners on public schools. The problem isn't the amount. Well, it is because it is way too much. The problem is how the money is being collected, why, and who is getting it. (Texas spent 100 million on just one test, for example)
This is something a lot of people (carl included) seem to be missing. It's the same reason why sending money to Africa or wherever doesn't just fix the problem. The problem is the people receiving the money with the expectation of allocating it reasonably. It's a problem of allocation not funding.
Both my wife and I are teachers. We spend quite a bit of our own money on school supplies every year. My wife teachers 2nd grade while I teacher chemistry and physics.
Regarding the school system rant: - how much cash do we collectively spend on video games? - how much cash do we collectively spend on marijuana and marijuana-based products? - how much cash do we collectively spend on homeopathic "medicine" There are trillions dollars being spent on luxury items in the US alone. Imagine (as a thought experiment) what we could do if we collectively spent even just 1 billion of that on social programs.
What you should ask is, why in the US are we spending more per student, yet none of it seems to be getting into teacher's pay or supplies in the classroom. We constantly hear about how we are going to spend more on education, but absolutely none of it reaches the classroom. Whenever they spend another 300 million on education it's to create 100 middle manager bureaucratic jobs instead of paying teachers 10K more each and giving them 2K each for basic school supplies.
