Indiana's Future Endangered

Another post on how Hoosier educational system imperils Indiana's future.

Indiana keeps investing in its bad reputation is the latest call to arms.

“The average teacher salary for Indiana teachers was about $53,000 during the 2020-21 school year, compared with nearly $71,000 for Illinois teachers, roughly $64,000 for Michigan teachers and $54,000 for Kentucky teachers,” Gaines wrote. There has been an influx of experts on inflation around here lately, so I shouldn’t have to explain this here, but I happily will.

Indiana will never be as good as it can be if it doesn’t do something about this right now. I am exhausted with policymakers who do not see the time-sensitive nature of this problem. The third graders in the state who will be taught in a classroom with twice as many students as one in Michigan is never going to be in third grade again. The same applies for the middle-schooler and the high school senior. 

But instead of investing in Indiana's future, promoting the economic viability of Indiana students, the Indiana Republicans are hyperventilating to ban abortion: Lawmakers returning to Statehouse to pass new abortion laws.

Some of my other posts on this subject: 

• Indiana Republicans Dumbing Down Hoosiers
  
• Indiana's Trouble is Not Immigrants
  
• Indiana Needs Better Education

So when do things change?

sch 7/13/22