I'm not going to lie to you, it would be some badass shit if teachers & students did a strike when America totally opened schools.

Why should we both strike, you might ask? I'd love to answer! (A Thread).

1. We all know this -- from Elementary Teachers to Professors of esteemed universities, teachers are severely under paid for their work.

The national average for teachers is just under $40k, according to http://www.nea.org/home/2017-2018-average-starting-teacher-salary.html

College campuses have been moving from tenure to adjunct in the last few years -- forcing professors to be employed at multiple campuses. 75.5% of college faculty are off the tenure track.

That source is actually @patriotact but also https://www.newfacultymajority.info/facts-about-adjuncts/

So, this should mean less money for college, right? No! Why would you ever think an institution with freed up money would give BACK money, when you may not recognize the (very obvious) difference in quality?

College administrators are making several hundred grand a year.

Sometimes, these administrators are in the MILLIONS.

President of John Hopkins Uni makes a BASE pay of a little over a million, according to https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/executive-compensation#id=table_private_2017

So, teachers are underpaid! That sucks, but it isn't a big problem. The govenor of Florida just passed a law giving educators in that state higher wages!

The minimum pay for Florida educators is now 8 grand up from the national average. Putting them at $24-25/hour.

Finally, Florida teachers are making the same amount as their local Pizza Place manager.
The guy who snips a little off the top of your $50 pizza order is also making the same as the people you entrust your kid with 6 hours a day.

2. Colleges are making students pay both a "distanced learning" fee AND pay the fee for the gyms, libraries, and other on-campus items that are unused and inaccessible to the student body during COVID.
Even worse -- those prices haven't changed.

Students are still being asked to pay the $45 gym maintence fee they were paying last Fall, even though they likely don't even put lights on in that building.
Not only that, but they're paying the x amount their college demands for them opting out of using those services.

3. Adjunct Professors are making 30k a year, where tenured professors were making bank.
The cost for these universities haven't gone down, even though they're now getting professors who also teach at the community college down the street, to make up for lost cash.

My first semester of college, I had a teacher who was an Adjunct. He looked at us dead in the eyes and said "Uni is a scam for AA's, anyways. I'm teaching you the same shit I'm teaching at [University]. Only difference is theirs has a [Mascot] associated."

Typically, the qualities of these classes are diminished, and they are offered no job security.
Imagine how stressful it is to do the same job as a professor, on top of driving the x distance to teach at multiple schools, & still make less than the 25% that remain on tenure path.

You're paying the same -- if not more -- for those adjunct professors who they're paying less.
Whose salaries are skyrocking? Who are you paying for?
Those administrators. The deans & principals.

More money, shittier quality, and the money isn't even going to services. Not only that, but these functions are actively asking you for money that isn't likely to be used for the purpose you're paying for.
You're throwing tons of cash at Uni's during COVID, and --

-- they expect you not to care because it's a "loan anyways." It isn't your money, and it was going to be "used for school anyways."

When you'll be paying off those charges for years.

But, I digress.
I think it's a fantastic idea to strike an establishment that we're not even sure is going to function the way it does today in 5 years.
Instead of making that crash happen 5 years from now, why not strike while the iron is hot? While we're mad?

Anyways, this is basically a call to action based off of how I felt after watching @patriotact's latest episode.

Schools are too expensive. Based off of this -- are we getting the quality we pay for? Shouldn't the price of the school reflect that?