Teachers are in the midst of a burnout crisis

I remember when I was in school and teachers complained about the costs of supplies they needed to provide for themselves, including things like markers to use on the whiteboards (public school in Utah, roughly the ages 12-18). As far as I know, these public school administrations (in Utah) don't have a legal mandate to pay for or reimburse such costs.

More recently -- within the past two years -- I worked with someone who moved into software development from being a music teacher at a local high school (still in Utah, roughly ages 15-18, not where I went) where her boss (the principal) made her cry on many days with verbal abuse about how she's not working hard enough, not meeting certain metrics, whatever happened to be the problem at the time.

In high school I had a teacher who put in absolutely no effort to teach unless / until the school district sent someone to sit in on (one of) his classes to verify that he does his job. To make it appear that he did his job, he coached the class to always raise their hand whenever he asked any question. Over the years he devised a system for this: if you believe you know the answer to the question raise your right hand, otherwise your left. To my knowledge, there wasn't any sort of disciplinary action taken against him. (Otherwise, that class was "read this chapter of the textbook and then rewrite and answer the questions at the end" and I'm pretty sure I failed it. It was a World History class, for the curious.)

I doubt the school had a budget that not only allowed competitive salaries but also some mechanism to increase the budget and therefore salaries. Some teachers put up with the bullshit, at least for a time, because they have a passion (sound familiar?) for teaching. Others, I think, give the effort they get. It's nice to see this getting some amount of attention even if I'm not particularly surprised by the headline (or might have some reservations about the wording "midst of a ... crisis"; kinda think we've been here since before I was in school but what do I know?).

I can see an eventual battle between teachers unions and Ai usage in classrooms, with pressure to limit or ban them. How effective can an individually tailored GPT6 service be at teaching kids? What happens when the image/video models advance and these models can not only teach through text but also through image examples/video examples?

I was never a great in-person learner so to me it would have been a God send. What percentage of kids are like me in which society could save untold amounts per child WITH better outcomes.

America is a story of people wanting to have their cake and eat it too. We want top notch public services but at the same time low taxes. I wish there was a straight forward way of comparing the value of the things your taxes get you versus what the equivalent cost of those same things at a private market rate would be. If people understood how good of a deal they are getting they might be inclined to pay more taxes.

> class size has nearly doubled since he started teaching 11th grade U.S. history at Pflugerville High School 23 years ago, thanks to a persistent teacher shortage and a flock of families migrating to trendy Austin, a mere 30-minute drive south.

why are families migrating here despite bad schools. Whats so appealing about austin.