22 years of a GOP supermajority has pushed Missouri to 49th in starting teacher pay and now we have a teacher turnover rate of almost 15% -- more than double the national average. Republicans can't govern. They don't even try. missouriindependent.com/2025/08/14/m...
They are neither there to read or lead, but just for the greed.
GOP: "The government is bad. Elect us so we can break it from within and prove ourselves correct"
Don't want to govern. Want only to rule. I figure they'd prefer to simply loot and pillage and let the Democrats repair things to loot and pillage again, but their owners are now going all Taliban and just blowing up anything good. Better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven, as Lucifer thought.
Oh they govern alright. It just doesn't look like it because their goals are wholly mismatched to society's. I don't know much about Missouri, but predict that after 22 years of one party rule, the corruption must be monumental.
They want citizens ignorant and compliant
They don't want to govern, they want to RULE!
"Somebody has to be last, why not us?" Missouri, probably
I once talked about my low teacher salary on Twitter. A Missouri lawmaker responded to my tweet saying, "Quit. No one owes you anything."
And then this same lawmaker will cry about having no teachers.
Name names. What a horrible response.
Justin Hill. He moved to Florida to sell insurance after he skipped his own swearing in to attend the insurrection at the Capitol. www.stltoday.com/life-enterta...
Of course… #FloridaMan
We don't claim him. And Florida ranks 48th in teacher pay because we're also a GOP-occupied state. My mom was a teacher for 30 years here. Then she spent 10 yrs as an advisor at a local college. She's currently the Membership Committee chair for the local Retired Educators Association.
My mom never made more than $58k/year and she has a Master's in Education and her certification as a guidance counselor. She was 3 credits short of a second Master's degree. She was a Middle School Gifted teacher most of her career and wrote her own curriculum.
Her law unit made the news and local papers because it culminated in a mock trial in front of a real judge in an actual courtroom. She partnered with a local law school.
Meanwhile, we have to keep taxes on the wealthy close to zero, otherwise they might lose their “incentive” …
And their kids probably go to private schools.
Ohio has a similar situation. One of my teacher friend's district was striking about 15 years ago. She worked in a VERY wealthy city. Republican reps said no teacher should be paid enough to be able to afford to live in that district.
WOW! What foolish and insensitive ass!
Missouri, enough said.
Miserable bastard! How do blatantly evil people get elected to political office? Ask Donald Trump!
It’s infuriating how some folks think that a person who has as much or more education than many CEOs & literally has the responsibility for educating & protecting the next generation (even from AK-47s) should take a vow of poverty. 😡
A great line to regularly feed right back to said lawmaker, especially when it’s re-election season!
Did you tell him he lost your vote, and those of those you knew? And that then his kids weren't owed anything?
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I feel the pain. Florida is hardly a poor state yet teachers are apparently the 2nd lowest paid in the country. It’s shameful how teachers are treated in some states.
I hate to promote business-speak in any way whatsoever, but there is actually a difference between a leader and a ruler. And they can't lead worth a damn.
I hope you did quit they dont deserve good teachers if they arent willing to pay for them!
Meanwhile he’s raping children
No decency or even basic understanding of the issue. Just ignorant hate. The worst of us.
That’s really devaluing the work teachers do.
I assume that Missouri lawmaker was a male and wonder if he would’ve said the same thing to another male.
I bet there are states which pay male teachers for no good reason.
They don't believe in government. If government is doing something to help people, they want to privatize and profit off that service.
Its almost as if they want public education like this!
Every red state is run by a pack of dumbasses trying to turn your children into dumbasses so they can exploit them.
Also one of the top ten highest crime rates in the country. Funny because Republicans are supposedly so good on crime.
Why try to govern when you can gerrymander? There's no incentive.
I am so sorry. Teachers deserve so much better. Eat the rich. This would also help. 🤬
That is not what they're here to do.
Standing in solidarity with fellow educators in Missouri ✊
PS: while simultaneously being embarrassed that my state (MA) has fallen to 9th in starting teacher pay . 🤦♂️
Republicans don’t want kids to be educated. They want uneducated brainwashed soldiers and laborers who will do as they are told and follow orders for the oligarchs.
Yup. You get what you vote for.
Want quality education ? Than it has to be paid for. That $ goes back into the economy anyway so everyone benefits from it.
Also why is Trump focused on DC and not St. Louis. Furthermore…he should be going after Missouri politicians who create the climate that lets their states and cities get in those conditions.
Oh they know how to govern. This is on purpose. Republicans want institutions to fail
They do it on purpose They do no want a 'public ' school system.
This. "Republicans can't govern. They don't even try."
well as you know, they are not fans of public education.
Wow. That is so sad.
smart governments, like smart parents, do everything possible to provide their children with the best education possible because it is the most reliable path to prosperity; hateful governments do everything possible to deny education because it is the best path to poverty and authoritarian control
My ex had a child in 1st grade while we were together. The challenge level of the lessons were absolutely laughable. We had such a hard time getting him to do his work because it was too easy. The education system here is a joke, a placeholder to check off the "has school" checkbox for state funds.
Strike. Demand better pay.
Less intelligent constituents are easier to govern.
God, I hate it here.
All republicans need to lose their jobs! America will vote them out!!! Texas is the same POS state.
It's not that they can't govern so much as they don't want to govern. They hate government - why would they do anything that makes it look good?
Ohio Grand Old Pedophiles are working hard to become Northern Mississippi.
Destroying public education is a goal
so why do Missourians keep electing republicans?
Read the post about them defunding education for decades! ⤴️⤴️ Also: Democrats stopped bothering to run candidates in many places. Can't win if you don't play.
I live in the land of Jason smith.
"Only" 15%? That seems low.
Jess, come to Alaska, please. These people are looking for a sane voice, and you know how to talk to recovering/wavering Republicans.
You mean Trickle Down doesn’t work there either?
The pattern repeats. Missouri, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi..... 30 years of Republican leadership in Texas continues to fail Texans.
Florida ranks 48th. We're not better. Because we're also a GOP-occupied state.
"Keep 'em dumb so they won't catch on to us!!"
The GOP has kept the base purposefully uneducated for decades because they are easier to manipulate and control. The GOP fear-mongering and gaslighting work for a reason. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...
They sure love to intentionally underfund Public Schools to push their unregulated, proven disastrous, private voucher programs.
The GOP has kept the base purposefully uneducated for decades because they are easier to manipulate and control. They are destroying the DOE because they want to do that to the rest of us. An educated population is a threat to them.
The GOP fear-mongering and gaslighting work on the base for a reason. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...
All correct.
That’s a fact
Just curious, in Missouri, is there an age out limit for kindergarten?
It’s more of an informal age-out; the first signs are when those miniature seats no longer fit and instead of milk and nap time, they’re bringing a flask and calling it Happy Hour.
LOLOLOL Nailed it!!!!!
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That supermajority is in charge of drawing the state’s district maps, so their grip on power is self-perpetuating.
"The GOP can't govern. They don't even try." That is a billboard waiting to happen!!!
Republicans exploit people. They believe in the inalienable right of the few elites to profit off of the many lower classes. Their nostalgia lies in the Gilded Age.
