Pillars
There are a lot of problems that not many people know about that are plaguing our educational system. Currently, one district in Salt Lake City is hiring more teachers each year than those graduating from the major universities in Utah.
To combat this, we need the cost of college to be more subsidized not only by the university but by the government. That way, when the teachers have graduated, they don’t have debt. The prohibitive cost of college will be negated.
Give them higher pay because they have to deal with kids that were a lot like me growing up, which I was not easy to deal with, burnout is a real problem.
Teachers are taken advantage of, and it needs to stop. We need to invest more in our children and the teachers. We need to give teachers a stipend, so they stop paying out of pocket for materials.
We don’t need to slash extracurriculars because when will the kids figure out what they like to do. Also, reinstating a lot of extracurriculars will bring down the number of mass shootings in schools. Because from my research, most people who do that felt like an outcast or have been bullied. If we can get this high-risk group interacting with other students making friends, they won’t feel alone. If we integrate more social services into schools, it will drive down shootings as well.
I did theater in high school, and I love it. Teachers can change lives. I had a few teachers who saw past my façade and knew I was just lost, trying to navigate a complicated path. We need more teachers like that who genuinely care and who want to teach, but are prohibited due to cost.
If everything goes to plan one day, I want to teach high school chemistry or physics to get the next generation excited about science.
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