The people crawling on the ground are professionals with Masters and Doctorate degrees. They are entrusted with one of the most important jobs one can have: teaching our children.
Yet with the exception of Mississippi, South Dakota pays the lowest teacher salaries in the nation. and in 2019, USATODAY ranked South Dakota the worst state to be a teacher. Oftentimes, teachers have to spend their own money on school supplies, but the deep-red conservative state has figured out a way to help them out.
Think “Squid Game”:
This is disgraceful.
South Dakota governor Kristi Noem went on a $68K spending spree remodeling the Governor's Residence with taxpayer money, including spending $13,000 for rugs and adding a built-in sauna.
I’m wondering why she wasn’t made to crawl around on the floor for that?
The Republican party has full control of that state, and they have plenty of large donors because billions of dollars are sheltered through South Dakota trusts. I’m sure they can be solicited for money for needed educational supplies. After all, Kristi had no trouble asking donors to help create an expensive and tacky bust that depicted Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore.
It’s a question of priorities. There is no other public service I can think of—not police, not politicians, not air traffic controllers—that we would tolerate making them degrade themselves for entertainment just so they could buy equipment and supplies they need to do their job. So why the hell are people okay with doing this to our teachers?