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The president has to find a way around our governor in order to pay educators who protect our children. WTF?!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-desantis-schools-masks/2021/08/10/371d4308-fa0a-11eb-9c0e-97e29906a970_story.html
tinydog
At first glance I thought the kids were being led by Ronald McDonald.
Murphquake49
This is one bill I'm happy to pay. Don't lose sight of what's most important, children's lives are at stake.
ICannotSanctionYourBuffoonery
How about, I don't know? Removing the murderous POS' pushing this shit?
thiscantbtaken
Also means republicans can use this in 2024 as evidence of federal govt overreach.
buttplugconsumer
It'll be a lawsuit which the schools will win. California already proved you can pick and choose which laws to enforce when about safety.
Dirtystinkingape
From Biden? Yes that's exactly what leadership looks like. From DeSantis? No that would be treason
GravyEducation
harrison100012
Hit him with a friggin Bullet .Everybody wins
RyanOfAthens
How can salaries be withheld?!
RockTheKazbahhh
Children’s blood will be on his hands for this.
InsertYourOpinionHere
The cost of one missile will probably cover their salaries for the year. Just sayin...
shankill
rosebudthesled
That is leadership in the face of a failure of leadership. You can't wait for DeathSantis to come around to a solution.
mity0k23
That’s the fucking plan. Teachers get paid. Sensible people applaud Biden. Whackos say he’s weak. DeathSanta clings to his hill to die on.
DarkerSavant
President is doing this because of the 10th amendment. It’s fucked the state chose this route to hurt teacher who just want to be safe too.
kuroda121
Withhold the governors pay. Charge him high taxes and higher hospital bills when he catches the rona. Then when he passes from it dump him.
swattyKnotts
Teachers in Florida aren't paid by the State, they're paid by the county. The money comes from property tax.
beezzarro
I honestly have a bad feeling that the next election will go to desantis
Tychodin
i have an idea. arrest the governor, since, you know, it's not actually legal for a guv to kill his residents?
funneydude
"Sorry your boss is insane" payments
BucculaDracula
that’s FLucked up mate.
zanaria
Anyone seen Escape From LA/New York? Can we just do that to Florida? Leave DeSatan and everyone who votes for him behind...
SassySailor
Honestly someone who is a republican explain why you support him?
blindsightofsanity101
I am so so sooooo very glad he is our President
BlueCanaryInTheOutletByTheLightSwitch
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BlueCanaryInTheOutletByTheLightSwitch
Ooo, a non-sequitur whataboutism. You must be proud of yourself.
Rehjee
Never noticed the little celebration at the end.
SirBrendan
Where is the teacher's union or solidarity strikes and why are they not forcing DeSantis out of office?
SLCtechie
How is withholding paychecks even legal?
DaShanghaiKid
It's not legal.
rooik14
Desantis controls school funding in Florida which also means he possibly has the power to revoke funding.
swattyKnotts
No. Teachers aren't paid by the State, they're paid by the counties.
rooik14
Which can be defunded
swattyKnotts
The counties raise money for schools via property taxes. The state has no control.
Perfzilla
ugh wapos paywall is annoying as shit
SerenePrincess013
It's bc it's owned by Satan--I mean, Bezos. He's gotta break that Trillion$ threshold somehow, or he won't be able to pay his bills.
Islander408
Agreed. Usually I can find an alternative....just gave up today...
OMFGWhatHaveWeDONE
MiHaleEsSuHale
Well it's owned by Jeff bezos so no real shocker there
djhash
if you can, disable javascript for that page. You'll be able to read the article, but other stuff would not render.
GuyFleegman
Good info! Thank you!
Perfzilla
hey look it worked, thanks!
tr26
I agree, but quality journalism costs money.
ilovedogknots
THE RICHEST MAN ON THE PLANET OWNS IT HE COILD FUND IT FOR 500 YEARS AND NOT EVEN NOTICE THE MONEY GONE
Marrok89
Oh yea? All his shares in the company will plummet because the news no longer makes money. Ergo his wealth also plummets and no more news.
therealpopkiller
Yeah that would suck. Too bad he doesn’t have a Biggest Company in the History of the World to subsidize it
tr26
I think the suggestion was that he could be altruistic.
DaShanghaiKid
Dude just flew to space in a dildo...
SerenePrincess013
Oh noes! Satan won't clear a trillion dollars, so he can't pay his bills, while his workers are literally starving under his slave-tactics.
Clockworkdancerobot
I'm sure Desantis is loving it. Gets to withhold pay and funnel it to a friend's pockets. The US Taxpayer gets the bill.
UrbanNorthern
The money would come out of the coronavirus relief act funds that the state of Florida was already supposed to get from the fed gov for misc
3Davideo
Oddly enough, many states have rejected the Medicare expansion despite the federal government footing most of the bill...
FartBoxExtract
I mean, i was never going to see any tangible returns from my tax dollars anyway.
Jatenffxiv
Goddamnit, you're right
kittypoopappledrink
I will naht pay teachers I will naht... Oh hai hurricane... so FEMA how's your disaster relief
TrueNorthernLights
Only problem is now the Republicunts can point to their shitty education and say it was Biden's fault.
Cha0sForever
How about biden cuts Texas officials pay by the amount they take from schools?
MeshHatMafia
Well it’s Florida, but Texas isn’t doing much better
Cha0sForever
Reading to many shitty posts about GoP ?♂️. Getting them mixed up now.
imeanYUUUGE
To be fair, Florida is just Water Texas.
toxcrusadr
Can he actually refuse to pay them? Isn't that some kind of breach of contract?
waitwhat1234
After a long drawn out court battle, probably not.
Heavenissize17socks
It's illegal as hell, and is wage theft. Department of Labor should shut him down.
CalvinisHobbes
Also, long game. Defund public schools. In 2 years, people will be saying, "Oh my! Why did enrollment drop? OuR pUbLiX sXoOlS are terrible!"
morelikeconsham
If the federal government ends up paying teachers' salaries, that's one step in the direction of wresting education out of the hands of
morelikeconsham
State governments and making it a federal matter, which most Republicans would not be happy with.
GuyFleegman
They already are terrible though...
imeanYUUUGE
Only because dipshit Republicans are actively trying to destroy them.
CalvinisHobbes
The average teacher lasts 5 years before searching for a different career. Working conditions and pay are abysmal
FlissFloss86Gaming
I'm 100% fine with paying for this. It's what our money should be spent on - helping people that need it. DeSantis is failing Florida
iDontKnowAllYourSecrets
*Failed
Gremlynn4023
I mean, he doesn't appear to be done yet.
Scrambles667
No, failing works. He is still failing them
countbassy
Room for way more failure
SunBrolem
You're missing the point. Now DeSantis gets to basically embezzle that money legally while more money funnels to Florida to compensate.
Flowerlady0
Let him embezzle it. Then throw him in jail for the rest of his Natural Life
noneweregiven
Sure, but those teachers need to be paid, regardless of DeSantis being a feckless twat.
SunBrolem
Still not the point. I agree with you, by the way, but the solution is not to pay the ransom, its to get rid of the ransomer.
newusernamewhothis
If so… a federalized education system could be a reality. No more obfuscation of slavery, repro health, and maybe add tax/adulting education
MissSiesta
Yes. It's the Scandinavian way: national curriculum, with books and everything.
scojbo
One of the most important things would be to fund schools equally instead of based on city-taxes. This means poor schools actually get money
xjsxjs
Federalized education won’t happen, not with current Supreme Court.
Richter12x2
Oh man, don't get my hopes up. Coming from Texas where they just stripped the whole civil rights movement and MLK out of textbooks.
Richter12x2
The irony of trying to whitewash history and suddenly ending up as a new chapter of the atrocities of racism would be poetic justic.
MortimerMango
i'd love to see what the federal curriculum would look like after that budget battle
newusernamewhothis
Ah true, guess we shouldn’t even try. States have it figured out.
Twistysnacks
Really we need to start with shit like rolling back No Child Left Behind and other ways to threaten schools with even less funding
MathiasTolerain
The problem here is when we get Trump 2.0 in the Whitehouse they’ll mandate 2+2=5 and some Newspeak language program.
SirJamesMonster42
Nah. Even if they could agree on standards, implementation would be a nightmare.
AawesomeAardvaark
We already agreed on standards (common core), then fox News happened.
SirJamesMonster42
I was teaching when it rolled out. There are some legitimate issues with it but, yeah, the Republicans...this is why I'm cynical.
newusernamewhothis
You’re so right, why waste the effort on something that’s hard to do.
SirJamesMonster42
Without buy in from all sides? Not difficult - impossible. It'd take a level of bipartisanship & leadershipthat hasn't been seen in decades.
TheJollyGreenGiant
I’m not confident it would change very much in the positive. If you look up Project Followthrough, we’ve had the most effective (1)
TheJollyGreenGiant
Instructional methodology pinpointed since 1977, just no one uses it. There’s more money in ineffective education than there is in (2)
TheJollyGreenGiant
Getting all of our students the education they deserve. Super unfortunate, but public education would need hyper massive reform to (3)
TheJollyGreenGiant
Generate movement toward anywhere near best practices.
TheJollyGreenGiant
And that’s not a comment on teachers. Teachers are saints who deserve much more than they’re given. It’s the system as a whole.
Tokomek
Until the party swing in the off election year gets the curriculum changed to teach about Jesus and gays going to hell.
newusernamewhothis
We’d need some serious separation of church and state, which oddly enough is already supposed to be the case
Tokomek
They would teach it as history.
camobranson
And then the pendulum swings back the other way and minority kids are once again told they'll never be good enough to succeed without a 1/
Twistysnacks
I'd be interested to see your data on this... How many minority kids feel this way? How many adult POC think they were brainwashed?
TheCroaker
I am not agreeing with him, but i dont think brainwashed people think they are brainwashed
Twistysnacks
Not at the time. I'm asking how many adults realized they were as kids.
camobranson
White man to help him along or government handouts and that their white friends are secret racists. 2/2
BarbedWireCatheter
Hey brother-patriot, long time no see! Still cuckin’ the libtards, eh? Don’t go changing now, catch you later!
5amNonsense
Man you could have chosen any of a number of valid criticisms and instead you did this
camobranson
Critical Race Praxis is what I was referring to and is what my niece was subjected to when she went back to school. Look into it.
awkwardalpaca1
Out of all valid arguments, you chose the "no u" response. Literally the worst one you could have chosen.
justonemorepicturepls
Why would Jesus be going to hell though?
blainetog
Actually, Christian theology holds that Jesus descended to Hell after his crucifixion to preach to the dead before resurrecting on Easter.
CerisCinderwolf
If Christ can't have evil before Him how did He go to Hell? May be relevant. https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/february7/31.74.html
geetarhumor
Nice catch. Another reminder of why the world may not realize it, but good editors are always needed.
Tokomek
Jesus did go to hell so even sans comma it was correct.