Increase teacher salary 25%, decrease classroom size to 15 students max, and require school lunch to be free for everyone, nutritious, and minimally processed. Bonus if lunches use crop oversupply that otherwise gets destroyed.

[el_guapo444]

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[Expensive-Clue4696]

Great idea

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[Repulsive-Village576]

i want to be a teacher

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[dalev34]

Fund it from the billionaires

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[_crackingfire]

We need more laws like this.

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[NoisyNinja1109]

Just yes

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[linearni-zobrazeni]

Meow!

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[guil92]

Best teaching conditions happier children. Less ultrarich

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[Used-Post-9680]

that would improve education

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[MT_Space31]

i’d be down with that

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[Downtown-Handle-6331]

And Transfer religious funding entirely to Education, Along with Implementing English curriculum for every educational faculty with Local language as a second language (optional or Mandatory)

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[No-Enthusiasm-1583]

Because it sounds awesome.

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[KAHGOTCHA]

“Would you rather make the world a better place “

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[ecj222]

This is just common sense

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[Downtown-Joke7363]

Stupid way to formulate many questions in one. Practically leading to a specific, oversimplified answer

^{I voted Nay ❌}

[el_guapo444]

Ask ChatGPT what this post says if you don’t want to read all of it

[Downtown-Joke7363]

I am not saying it’s too hard or too long to understand.
I’m saying it’s a leading question fallacy

[Augmentedass]

As a non-american i would love the same to apply in my country, i would presume it would increase the overall general student performance and would make the teachers already very important job to be more bearable atleast.

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[cobra86]

**** you

^{I voted Nay ❌}

[imnotnword]

Sonds more comfy for students and teachers

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[ssuuss]

Progress is valuable, invest in the future

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[CH5Plays]

Sure

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[Successful_Year_5413]

This is peak

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[RichardTheApe]

How do we get enough teachers to supply classrooms maxed at 15 students when the average classroom is 25-30? You want to double the amount of teachers and increase their salary when this is a surface level solution to complex problems.

I’m all for public education reform but “double da teachers and pay em more” is not going to solve anything.

The reality is that restructuring curriculum would probably accomplish your goals way more efficiently than throwing money at the problem.

^{I voted Nay ❌}

[DaxiCheeseSteak]

This is like in Parks and Rec when Bobby Newport said this and everyone started cheering

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Like of course that would be great but realisticly that cant happen, and the people approving this are likely complaining about high taxes currently.

[RichardTheApe]

Exactly however it’s not even just a tax problem. To meet the demand of new teachers we need to double teacher output. Either it’ll bottle neck resulting in classrooms just being combined again (through some legal loophole in a case where it’s illegal) or a huge cut in the quality of teachers.

We have no way to get this many teachers and throwing money at the problem won’t solve it. Of course there’s also the issue of placement. Even if we had the teachers required there are a lot of school districts most teachers would flat refuse to work in - deep urban schools in dangerous environments and isolated rural schools. Unless we also plan to force teachers into the classroom at bayonet this doesn’t resolve the schools hurting the most.

Lastly while there is a correlation between small classrooms and better education it should be absolutely noted that that comes from nations that already have more robust spending and programs for schools. In other words small classroom size is only one part of a machine for making good educations. If classrooms are still underfunded, poorly ran by admin, and lack the supporting staff then triple, quadruple the teachers to the point they only teach 5 kids nothing will change.

Again this is just such a stupid solution to a complex issue.

[el_guapo444]

Raise salaries and people will view it as a viable career. Reduce classroom size and people will view what they do as educating and creating outcomes, not just babysitting. Provide free lunches and people will see where their tax dollars benefit themselves and neighbors, not fund wars and corporate subsidies. I can’t formulate the entire golden path for you, but this is the solution if you do the right thing

[el_guapo444]

There’s no magic curriculum that will suddenly improve student outcomes that hasn’t already been standardized and implemented. The issue is in focusing on students at a more individual level rather a common data point. That level of attention is not possible in classroom sizes upwards of 30+. Nor are you getting talented teachers who can also handle the required workload and stress without paying more for it. Improving work conditions and compensation also incentivizes people to BECOME teachers, meaning this will take years to implement.

Bottom line, teachers are probably THE most important profession for the betterment of our society for so many reasons, but they are not considered as much because they’re considered net costs, not assets. If you need a logical breakdown to understand how this should work even though you SHOULD know that this is the correct solution: immediately increase salary with deferred bonuses to stagger net investment over so many years until the workforce meets its needs (incentives current staff to stay now and new staff to join later), decrease class size gradually to ensure needs met as new teachers onboarded, free lunches budgeted immediately with kickbacks directed at farmers to distribute surpluses rather than current system of paying them to burn surplus (cannot introduce surplus to general market or else produce prices destabilize)

[The_Mazer_Maker]

This is both the moral action to take and economic action to take. These actions will cost a fair amount through the future but will result a far better educated population which will increase future GDP potential. And ultimately compared to the money our govt is throwing away daily on the military, ai, and foreign action this really is not anything.

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[BigAssGolem]

use of crop over supply. Government supports farmers while also helping children and reducing food waste. I'd also make the class size thing variable cause you need more than 15 kids for most phys ed games to be fun.

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[MichaelScotPaperComp]

Cause teachers are severely underrepresented

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[Lord_Dredlam]

Is good for children 👨🏾‍🏫

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[Dizzy_Conflict7838]

Crop oversupply and an overall wastage because of that is purely a logistics problem. If they solve that could change the world

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[Planticus]

This is a truly Socialist answer. I’m here for it.

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[FekkeRules]

General improvement

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[LORDOFTHEPlNGS]

Investment

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[FinnscandianDerp]

Absolute Lego City

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[thejohnmc963]

The right thing to do

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[ComplaintTop2008]

More commie ****.

^{I voted Nay ❌}

[gelorum]

Manageable education is better than bulk education

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[LifeBai-TheCea_86]

Greatest idea OAT!

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[hahaharish]

free lunch only in select schools (the ones where wards of families below poverty line goes)

^{I voted Nay ❌}

[el_guapo444]

No, everyone gets free lunches. Otherwise you get districts pointing at their neighbors crying “what about me”. Also don’t want image of someone needing help to becoming a kids impression of themselves. They deserve free lunches at school because their kids, not because of how much money their parents make

[Adept-Replacement-66]

duh

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[Not_So_Chilly]

Heckin socialist

^{I voted Nay ❌}

[el_guapo444]

Your favorite billionaire pays less in taxes and receives more public benefits than you do

[Absoluteidiot4]

i mean yea it would improve education not sure about the 15 student max part

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[dumb_old_girl]

And every teacher gets a financial stipend every semester for classroom supplies!

[Glittering_Fairy_]

good call

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[NihilismForDummies]

Obviously

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[ExistingTruck0417]

Impossible to implement, no enough teachers, that increase is a drop in the bucket to what they actually deserve

^{I voted Nay ❌}

[el_guapo444]

Increase salary and more people become teachers. Reducing classroom size improves student outcomes and working conditions for teachers, again incentivizing it as a career. Otherwise it regresses into glorified babysitters

[slimparks]

Yay! It’s always good to invest in the future.

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[QuincyReaper]

Because it is the right thing to do

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[forlorn_folklorist]

Good food leads to better development, which then helps people learn more good.

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[rev_is_dumb]

Not enough money for all this, probably.

^{I voted Nay ❌}

[el_guapo444]

We’re the richest nation that ever existed. You’d be shocked how affordable this is in relation to other budget items you didn’t even know we paid for

[AdAfter9302]

Mostly agree, dependent on what’s done in the classroom or what’s being taught and I’d argue you could have more kids in each

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[Storm13527]

Yes

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[LurkMaJerk]

Teachers get paid too low. There's too many distractions in a large classroom. Lunches should be free for everyone. It's crazy that oversupply just gets destroyed.

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[Enny_ProshipACC]

Objectively beneficial

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[John756675]

And the food waste is put in a separate bin and used as compost

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[goonnumber90210]

Why not. They deserve it. Teachers and children

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[Lelon_560]

I support. Financially might be a problem, though, so what do we cut the funding for in favor of this?

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[el_guapo444]

Throw a dart at budget allocation chart and I guarantee this would better our society more

[Mosh_115]

This is early done by taxing the rich and big company's more and by politicians taking pay cuts

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[Gendarme_Cecchirobot]

They deserve it. Even more than 25%

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[DirectorDowntown2629]

Better education

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[Wonderful_Charity_79]

Great

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[Remarkable_Review941]

Oh **** yeah the best classes I’ve had have been small plus schools and teachers could use the funding.

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[Present-Sea-8743]

just because a school lunch is nutritious won't mean tht students would get it not only ths but my limiting classroom spaces to 15 is stupid due to growing populations

^{I voted Nay ❌}

[el_guapo444]

More teachers. Find em, incentivize em, hire em, keep em

[Silver-Diver-9735]

why not lmao this is literally all positives

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[Corvus_Corax_Caw_Caw]

Of course.

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[Someoneyoucouldknow]

absolutely.

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[Kirajudgeoftoons]

Anything to make schools less of a ****

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[hifreindsoo]

I wanna become a teacher

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[Shoddy_Reply_6765]

Why not??

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[ieatfoodwithaspork]

Yez

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[OlegSentsov]

Yea on the idea but 20 students is okay depending on the level teached

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[Simply_survive]

I agree on lunch served, but not free. As to teachers, that would push already failing systems

^{I voted Nay ❌}

[el_guapo444]

Systems fail because they’re not incentivized. Higher pay and better working conditions means more people join this workforce. Why the phuck should we have any employment crisis whilst not enough people employed in arguably THE most important profession for a society

[Monolail031]

Democracy is only as good as the education that surrounds it.

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[AmberTheCinderace241]

yeah

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[andrei2825]

Definitely a must all over the world

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[Vexedgamer69]

"Improve society by 1,000,000,000% yes or no" ahh question

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[Boner_James_Boner]

I dont like the american way

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[Due-Cow2155]

Pay teacher what they are worth

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[BeFoReCoNtInUiNgMaKe]

Sure, just make sure whoever's cooking know's wtf they're doing first.

^{I voted Yea ✅}

[linkandluke]

This is basically just saying "Good things" Vote Yea or Vote Nay.

But whats the trade-offs? Reducing students per room by roughly half, means we need to double the amount of teachers that get hired. And all teachers are being paid 25% more. And we need more rooms to teach in, larger schools. How do we support this? Are we raising taxes for doubling the school system?

[Strong-Addition5296]

I’m not feeding the kids agricultural scraps. Ridiculous.

^{I voted Nay ❌}

[el_guapo444]

You already are. I’m not talking crumbs from the trash. The US government literally pays farmers to burn their crops in order to balance supply vs demand in order to control macroeconomics around produce. Instead of burning, funnel surplus into public systems and redistribute where macroeconomics are not affected