New Rule: Pencils Down | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

[@shirleynash8859]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for your support tonight. Bill!

[@BunnyCentauri]

Thank you

[@lockandloadlikehell]

Shirley Nash Abolish the NEA and all authoritarian, fascistic public unions.

[@beckobert]

Thank you for you service!

[@generaleditor]

"lockandloadlikehell": He calls unions "fascistic" but he wants to abolish them. That's pretty fascistic of you! Maybe learn a little history! Do you hate teachers unions because you are still angry about your lousy education?

[@alexcuellar484]

Shirley Nash and thank you if you're a teacher ♡

[@oukobilly]

Even we in Kenya have a law against child marriage. And we're in Kenya!! Only 50% of us have electricity

[@amandabell6356]

We like things like electricity in America because a company can make lots of money selling it. Our rich people in charge don't want everyone smart enough to realize how they are being scammed by them, so they underfund and belittle education. Our founding fathers wanted free public education for everyone. They'd be ashamed to know the effects of what our leaders have done the last fifty years has made it so that 15% of Americans are now functionally illiterate. 32 million adults can't read. There are some states whose schools are criminally underfunded and around 35% of the adults are reading at the level of nine-year-olds.

[@oukobilly]

Amanda Bell almost the same situation we have here.

[@Maalstrom]

Power doesn't equal civilization. Keep up the good work.

[@Alta368]

@Amanda bell You can even see one of those semi illiterate people struggling with a teleprompter every tme you turn on your tv and trying to put his incoherent thoughts into words (the best words, that only he knows - such a stable genius) and tweets. If it wasn't sad, it would be really funny

[@hawkeyemadi]

@@amandabell6356 You totally lost the plot. He is saying our country maybe poorer than America, but we don't allow child marriage. America is suppose to be the greatest country, but you can legally fuck kids.

[@manuginobilisbaldspot424]

I teach as a resident substitute in Southern California. I can attest to all of this. Especially teaching in a high risk, low income district. Literally, the first 10-15 minutes of the day is finding out which of my students ATE THAT DAY. It's amazing how much better a kid's attitude gets when they aren't hungry. Low income breakfast is nice, but I've seen it first hand...a breakfast stick and a thimble of milk isn't going to have a modern child full in a classroom. Thankfully, I make more than the teacher in Arizona...but not all that much. And this lack of priority in who we have teaching our kids is PRECISELY why so many bad ones are allowed to become teachers in the first place. I mean, you have to have a clean record, but many of the teachers you see on the news for some misdeed had one before they got in the classroom. I do what I do because in my own gruff, former Marine way, I give a shit about the young people in my community. And it's the direct way I can have influence...even if just for a single day. I wish he people who prioritized our public schools thought the same way. But I've seen Betsy DeVos speak...and I can't see that happening for a LONG, LONG time.

[@cclemonb1222]

Manu Ginobilis Bald Spot you humble me.

[@belle1269]

Manu Ginobilis Bald Spot we need more people like you in this world.

[@TheBioExplorer]

Manu Ginobilis Bald Spot I was in LA a few years back for an educational conference. At first I marvelled at their salaries compared to mine in SC... and then we got on the subject of housing costs. The high housing and transportation costs in California seem to more than wipe out any pay advantage. The price of homes in even poor areas is crazy and the rent is also prohibitive. My hat's off to you. If you want to help kids just as poor but do a little better with housing we need good teachers in SC too. The pay and benefits still suck but there is a good side too. I understand though when you feel committed to a community. Mine has over a 90% poverty index. These are mostly rural kids but they now live like poor urban kids. I came here 20 years ago from corporate work with the promise to myself that I would stay until I wasn't helping anymore or just couldn't hack it anymore... only then might I consider moving to a more affluent and better funded district. I haven't caved yet... but I do think about it more than I used to do so.

[@admrob]

Tenured LAUSD teachers make 6-figure salaries. They aren't the teachers making $1200 a month take home.

[@TheBioExplorer]

admrob None of the teachers I met in LA had 6 figure salaries and they were regular teachers. Some did reach toward $80K but those weren't starting out ... and even at that housing in the same areas where some taught was out of the question so it was a long commute. BTW... Tenure is no longer a thing in a huge number of states. We have yearly contracts and no collective bargaining. Unions are not allowed... neither is the power to strike.

[@SuperEdge67]

I’m a teacher in Western Australia and the average teacher here gets paid around $100 000 (Australian) a year. We are fairly well paid because we have a huge and very well paid mining industry and high salaries are needed to attract new teachers (and retain current teachers). Finland has the best education system in the world. The teachers there are paid as much as doctors and lawyers , and admission requirements to study teaching at university are as tough as medical school. The old saying is true.....’if you pay peanuts you get monkeys’.

[@sirmeowthelibrarycat]

SuperEdge67 😳 Yes, indeed! In Finland the children are not ‘taught’ but educated! They are treated with respect and encouraged to express themselves both academically and practically. They organise their day under careful mentoring by the most highly educated teachers in the world, who have to possess a Masters degree. Education in Finland is ‘bottom up’ drawing the best from the children as they grow up and not ‘top down’ imposed upon them by political ideology. Sadly, here in 🇬🇧 it is the opposite, with inevitable consequences for so many of our young people. Just reflect upon the extent of mental illness being presented by children here and the woeful attempts to manage it by over stretched medical staff. As a retired teacher, I could burst into tears at the treatment of children by those who should know better.

[@CHPetMom]

I grew up (and went to school) in Germany, and thankfully our teachers there were paid way more than in the US. In fact, I did not know one teacher that did not own a nice house - and that is in a country where most people rent, and home ownership is a lot more expensive than the US.

[@VCYT]

In UK the wages range from £23k to 40k + healthcare in free. British teachers main complaint is the massive paperwork for pointless admin rules.

[@SuperEdge67]

VC YT Yes there’s a lot of paperwork and an increasing amount of accountability. During the school term the hours are very long.......but you get 12 weeks holiday a year. But if you are teaching for the money (not in the US) or the holidays you’re in the wrong job. I genuinely believe teachers are born not made. It’s a very challenging job, so you need to be enjoying yourself or you’ll soon burn out.

[@trollonoroll]

That's the other end of the problem, paying teachers far too much for being daycare workers. I seen the product of your high 5 to 6 figure teaching in Oz. The majority routinely faulter on the basic fundamentals. Maybe cause they filled their heads with stuff they forgot after the test which was the only time to know such pointless facts. Now they spend their weekends getting shitfaced sucking on goonbags. Don't point to the minority that would've done well regardless & pat yourselves on the back, you are no heroes. Also you & every other wanker can stop asspulling some Scandinavian country that taxes it's poeple up the butthole as the gold standard of education when they're not exactly churning out geniuses. I notice you never higlight a poorer country with as an example of what's the best with less resources.

[@llongone2]

So much fucking truth in this clip; every American should listen to what Bill is saying here.

[@darby4558]

phthisicy want to explain youself? So an elementary, middle school, or high school teacher has zero impact on what a person will be? You're delusional. Everything starts from education

[@qualityinn5063]

Newsflash - school districts are not private businesses. And teachers educate our society, which means having them be shitty will have an impact on yourself as well

[@MossyMos]

phthisicy. Sorry, but that is an absolutely moronic statement. You are living in a Society / Community where it benefits us all if you become well educated. But for some reason you think the “market’ should determine the value of a teacher, as if that was the problem all along? We are NOT talking about private schools here and if you think private schools are the solution then .... well, Jesus wept, education really did fail you.

[@dreamerabe]

phthisicy I hope you're a troll, and not actually this unbelievably stupid and moronic.

[@proassassin8473]

Funking idiot.

[@shadowlesswarrior]

So I made more money than some teachers?!? and I am a high school drop out . That's the kinda fucked country we live. .

[@wesleykushner8028]

shadowlesswarrior Doesn't your existence just prove that if you drop out of school, you can live a better life than the teachers who went to college?

[@VCYT]

Are you Betsy de'vos?

[@wesleykushner8028]

VC YT No. She's the enemy.

[@mangalores-x_x]

which is given the difference in responsibility is insane. We claim that if you have to take more responsibility you deserve more money. Somehow this does not apply to people who care for other people or rescue other people, they have to do it out of sheer philanthropy and get dumped on when they are not at their best.

[@wesleykushner8028]

mangalores-x_x Spare me.

[@SuperDibbya]

OH! One of the VERY BEST New Rules Segment EVER!!!!!!!!!!

[@derrickmorrison5832]

Yes!

[@Torontopia]

How can a low paid teacher also be expected to pay for school supplies?

[@ichijofestival2576]

@Deep: It should only be so simple. Just another reason I wouldn't be a teacher even if they *were* paid well. (It's a special human being that's willing to spend 8+ hours a day trapped with 30+ little monsters.)

[@manuginobilisbaldspot424]

You get a certain amount of basic materials. Parents are usually notified that students should have a backpack, pencils, erasers, crayons in the lower grades, etc. But if you teach in a district where kids can't even EAT at night because there isn't enough money, the idea that they're going to have all the supplies is unrealistic. So are you going to have them do without? Depend on other students to consistently have something for them to mitigate the distraction? Or come out of pocket to make sure the base is covered? School supplies, snacks...I even bought a couple of pairs of gloves for students last winter. It happens.

[@wesleykushner8028]

Torontopia They took the job.

[@manuginobilisbaldspot424]

J McK...you know it's funny, I used to have that same sentiment. Especially as a man with only one child who thankfully has always been relatively relaxed and behaved. But then you get in the class...and of course they are going to be a little out of pocket. But truthfully, most of the younger kids just want you to like them. You do that...they help you out. Older kids want to be understood. You do that, they'll at least respect who you are in the room. I definitely don't do it for the money.

[@vavan100]

How come people have children they can't afford?

[@hamzamahmood9565]

Child marriage legal in U.S.? Wtf? Even our poor bangladeshi villages are in process of banning it

[@VCYT]

Yeh but bangladesh is more advanced.

[@matthewgoodman7588]

I wonder if in the 2050s middle class people living in Bangladesh will make donations to Americans.

[@amandabell6356]

It's so the religious pervs can legally have sex with children. Most of the kids married off are underage girls to older men, but some kids do marry other kids. It isn't talked about a lot, but the "Christians" in America will fight for their right to religious freedom that allows for men in their thirties and up to marry girls sixteen and under.

[@santapm4042]

Watch the following segment about US child marriage kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGHPqJx_o796Z6c

[@sleepingbackbone7581]

@Santa PM: thnx for the link. Everyone should watch that.... it's hard to believe we're in 21'st century... this crap reminds me on dark ages. horrible, sick people passing laws, and even more sick people taking advantage of them...

[@TudorNerd]

Thank you so much from a Kentucky "thug."

[@jlamx545]

I was shocked by this teacher’s salary! As a former Canadian teacher, I made (15 years ago!), over $230 PER DAY! And yes, we too often bought our own supplies and books for the classroom.....I am shocked. Education is about the future....knowledge is power. Your teachers deserve the best.

[@wesleykushner8028]

J Lamx Teachers don't deserve the pay we give them now.

[@drewdrewski6278]

$320 / week?? That's basically slave labour.. To all you amazing teachers out there, you deserve better than this - start a fight!!

[@drewdrewski6278]

Feel free to go do your teaching qualifications and set all those SJW's straight.... Your's - a proud SJW!

[@gagewesterhouse9558]

It's actually equivalent to working for $8.00 an hour. It's also a hoax. Come on, did you SERIOUSLY think they were paying a teacher as much as they pay McDonalds employees in Montana? SERIOUSLY?

[@YukonHexsun]

@@gagewesterhouse9558 I mean... yeah. Both my parents were teachers. One still is. And they were teachers in fucking SOUTH DAKOTA, have you seen the fucking pay for teachers in that state? Someone with a Masters degree shouldn't have to raise his child on fucking WIC.

[@gagewesterhouse9558]

@@YukonHexsun yeah. Nearly $40,000. More than enough to raise a comfortable middle class family. Maybe your parents were different. But in my state (Wisconsin), $30,000 gets you firmly in the middle class. And you can raise a family in decent comfort. And I know for a fact the cost of living is significantly lower in South Dakota. So either you are exaggerating (or outright lying), or your parents taught on a Native American reservation.

[@gagewesterhouse9558]

@@YukonHexsun and the income qualifications for WIC are very generous. I know, I grew up in poverty. Assuming it was only you, your mother and your father (though you probably had at least one sibling), the income threshold would be about $38,500 a year. Enough to put you firmly in the middle class. You poor thing you.

[@Argumemnon]

"Even when I was a kid, I didn't like kids". Yeah, me neither, brother.

[@stormwatcher59]

I feel like we are coming out of the closet with admitting we never liked kids! LOL

[@veek.6463]

Reminds me of a horse I have that regularly breaks down the fence to stand by my house and patio and greets me with this sorta telepathy of "want to go stand by the field with me and look at those dirty animals? "--- he means the other horses. Pretty funny. Until he suprises me in the dark when am carrying a take out pizza home and takes the box from me.

[@veek.6463]

Cute doggo storm watcher. I have a black tri Aussie. I love him. So smart

[@meganbaker9116]

He still hates them. Hard to advocate for a group you have contempt for.

[@salka78]

I make more than that working retail in canada for a week. Thats Horrifying.

[@cheri7054]

how can I get Canadian citizenship

[@ilfautdanser9121]

start by applying to be a landed immigrant--not easy, tends to take assets or abilities that we want/need. you could also do the marriage thing, but that's not automatic or fun. OR just wait til a war breaks out in the u.s. and you could come as a refugee--sounds like a real possibility these days.

[@VCYT]

Request a form, an fill in next to applicant name: 'melania trump'

[@dylandlp19]

I'm a waiter at a fine dining restaurant, I had one table tonight and I made $105. Teachers should be making much more than me.

[@Charlesinfinite]

@@cheri7054 it's difficult. They don't want you taking their high paid jobs. America on the other hands wants unlimited immigration so they can exploit all the people coming in with very low wages and absolutely nothing else.

[@Vekoma1261]

wow $320 a week??? I work at Walmart in Canada and I make over $400 a week. Walmarts a shit company but even they supply me with a box cutter and uniform at no cost and even rebate the cost of my work shoes.

[@YukonHexsun]

You got a rebate for your work shoes? Safeway didn't give me jack shit for my Romeos. Didn't give ANYONE jack shit, even the people buying 10 dollar shoes at fucking Walmart ironically. How the fuck is Walmart doing things better than Safeway?

[@nomasns7338]

I work for Wal-Mart and make more than some teachers and I'm not a member of management hell some school don't even offer benefits which I also have, $40 a month cover health, vision and dental plus I have a 401k

[@virginiaoflaherty2983]

@@YukonHexsun Ah ha, Wal Mart in Canada not the US.

[@gabrielappleton4342]

Listen. I work at Sonic, making 8 bucks an hour, and I made $320 last week BEFORE overtime. I firmly believe that someone who is making kids smarter should make more cash than someone who makes adults fatter.

[@petersack5074]

yup shoppin 'n eatin....just like george carlin said.......

[@kaleoy7584]

When I was around 12, I used to think my teacher was rich. Turned out he was just happy to see me.

[@petev1137]

Here's a solution - pay teachers a living wage by taking away from politicians salaries.

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

Pete V --- Dont do that.. it will just give them more incentive to take corporate bribes...

[@TRivera13]

They give themselves raises, healthcare and put other luxuries on the government tab. *AND THEY STILL TAKE CORPORATE MONEY*

[@AndreaRoll]

and tell politicians their reward is in heaven, let's see how they react.

[@NTHNCSGOContent]

Pete V Or you're rational like any 1st world country and let the rich pay their fair share of taxes and spend less on the military and then invest that into the teachers.

[@DRiungi]

how about defense budget?

[@bazookajoe8771]

I want to know, with all of these "educational" lotteries, where the hell is all the money from those!? My kids' school send out letters and notes asking for donations of the most basic things every school should have, pencils, glue and paper! FFS, why do our schools need to beg for this stuff!?

[@TheBioExplorer]

Bazooka Joe Not sure about your State. I'm in SC and our educational lottery money mostly goes to colleges and tuition programs. The only money K-12 gets is for buses... and that hasn't even worked out well because of course the money that used to be given for buses was then cut for buses instead of redirecting it to classrooms. Politicians and lotteries... both are a losing proposition.

[@bazookajoe8771]

Margaret Gust Some parents are to blame directly. What about the ones who can't afford it? Who's to blame there?.. That's what the lotteries we're sold to us as, a resource for schools, teachers and students. Getting a list from a school requesting a donation of the most basic of supplies like pencils and paper, for the class not just the student, is not acceptable whatsoever... It's not like their asking for 3D printers or something like that, it's pencils and f'ing paper. There is no reason why ANY school should have to ask for donations like that, of the most basic of educational tools. Absolutely ridiculous...

[@ernststravoblofeld]

Often, all the lottery money goes to education, but then the education budget is decreased by the same amount, so the real effect is that the money goes to the general fund. Basically, they lie.

[@SlyMcfly]

I get paid 500 a week and have healthcare through my company as an assistant manager!!!!! And I don't have to buy my workers snacks... that's so fucking sad

[@SlyMcfly]

phthisicy my job is hard... I think I deserve what I get paid

[@qualityinn5063]

Stupid troll alert. Congrats

[@burger_kinghorn]

SlyMcfly and so do teachers

[@SlyMcfly]

burgerkinghorn they went to school to get paid what I do?

[@burger_kinghorn]

SlyMcfly I don't know but whatever it is I trust you work hard and get paid what you deserve. This is about how teachers are not getting what they deserve.

[@websterwu8196]

Brutal truth, thanks, frank Bill, I know you are not fond of kids.

[@223Drone]

Even Bill knows that those kids will be the ones that look after him and that they'll need to best education they can get in order to do so.

[@vaidehiraghavan]

webster, he does like kids. But he doesn't want to take the responsibilty/liability. He wants to be free. The famous Irish playwright Oscar Wilde said 'Sex(unprotected) is a short term pleasure for which one pay's life time penalty'

[@HellfireClub242]

Kids are the future and education is the key. As for the present adults, many in America are exactly the reason why America will never move forward.

[@Stop_Gooning]

Define "never"

[@Stop_Gooning]

Define "forward"

[@joetravieso3542]

yesterday at the dollar tree store (where everything cost only a dollar) 4 teachers from 4 different schools bought so much supplies for the students....at that moment I felt ashamed to be an american....

[@negativeindustrial]

joe travieso Bet you didn’t chip in

[@jeromemaida4933]

What a loser.

[@Eksile8]

I work in this industry as a tech, I see where it all goes. My district sent letters home with my kid asking to help fundraise for school supplies and other utensils. Meanwhile a 85 million dollar football stadium for the high school was built down the street and the original one was just fine. Sports programs see more funding than basic school services and pay.

[@VillianAtHeart]

Words of wisdom there!

[@gabrieljordan8015]

To any teachers reading this I thank you for your service.

[@feetheweasel]

besides being a parent, being a teacher is the 2nd most important job on the planet. And we treat them and pay them like dirt. We should all be ashamed....truly. And I don't even have kids...

[@Jjrmtv]

well said.

[@wesleykushner8028]

feetheweasel teachers don't even crack the top 50 most important jobs.

[@feetheweasel]

Wesley....use some logic here....if teachers don't make the top 50...would those top 50 even exist without teachers? you fucking idiot

[@wesleykushner8028]

feetheweasel Good thing those teachers made you such a well adjusted and level headed member of society.

[@feetheweasel]

sorry Wesley....I got no patience for blind stupidity.

[@cheryls8987]

I'm with Bill on not wanting to be around kids, but all in on paying teachers a living wage and then some. And stop child marriage! That's completely immoral!

[@Onthesummit]

I LOVE THIS MAN. Why can’t more people understand the sense he so humorously states - so true, so, so true.

[@galaxiehubba]

I remember with some teachers I had such a feeling of support from them, some I didn't even have a class with. The teaching and learning thing is so boosted with true "support"!

[@pm71241]

$320 a week ... that's ... like ... wow ... 1/4 of the start salary of a teacher in Denmark.

[@douglasrobertson4532]

It's been a long time since I've "liked" a Bill Maher video, but, damn, this is an important one. The stats are clear - more money into education saves a country a lot of money in the long run.

[@sparpie]

Margaret Gust How will instilling respect in children help teachers get paid more?

[@Eliphas_Leary]

There's an obvious relation betwen lack of education and religiosity.

[@veek.6463]

Not always. I am very educated and very religious and very progressive. I have travelled the world studying religion. I love it. I understand it. It's not something "out there" to me. It's identifying my true nature within and living from there. It helps that am autonomously taught in part and that I actually contemplate deeply the concepts and put them to the test. I question everything. And when deeply pondered and investigated, much of it rings true. Good Religous understanding requires good education and critical thinking skills. Otherwise it's fake religion.

[@Eliphas_Leary]

Vee K., there's a difference between understanding religions (and as a result being able to offer translation between the different religious perspectives) and being stuck in a religious mindset. People like you are important, but unfortunately also the exception.

[@veek.6463]

Thanks Eliphas. I hope someone will read this. What ai have come to learn is so simple- in all religions there is a very black or white choice to make. The one side is love and setting selfishness aside long enough to see how we all are virtually identical in wanting to be happy and not suffer, and then acting out of compassion for others. The other side is aversion or hatred or jealousy and greed- those afflictive states that make one really cling to self interest and not care for others who don't fit the exact mold we want. The result of either of these mindsets is often not clear in this life though one who practices compassion certainly has a deep joy from benefitting others even when their personal life is tough. I think what is really going on here is that we are in degenerate times. I think fundamental values are excellent- and they are the same values across religions and across worldly societies as well: don't kill or harm or steal or make sad others. Help others, rejoice in their happiness, be a good person to know and offer to assist others however possible. i got into this early in life as someone who had very vivid dreams and visions and later in life went through the death process twice naturally due to my body circumstances and also had two seizure like experiences where I went beyond my body as well. I have seen heaven with my own eyes and experienced being there. My feeling is it is a reflection of the mindset of compassion. That after this life our awareness sets up shop in a reality we are most accustomed to. Therefore, I believe there is no protection for one's self as great as compassion for others, and no injury to one's self worse than hatred of others. My feeling is hatred stems from jealousy which leads to resentment and then full blown anger/hatred. My fear is many teachers in this world of religion are not enlightened at all and are misleading their students and parishioners. Am really not trying to be judgements but they seem to have some bad feelings toward me when I tell them what I know. They seem to get angry. They themselves are often misguided by other teachers. I have met and sat and loved win many amazing people like Mother Theresa, yogis and lamas and women teachers in other countries, Mystics, people living in caves and ice caves and in remote places and people like you and me who live in society have profound wisdom as well. I can tell you I have met with the Pope and the Dalai Lama on some occasional and I have found both of them to be exceptions to many teachers- they are both truly loving beings. Both very good hearted and happy to share what they don't know as much as what they do- and yet they don't get power crazy. But in general, I think most evangelical Christians are actually totally going against Christ teachings. They look too far "out there" and focus on the little insignificant shit, don't do the real work of religion, are prejudice against others not just like them, and make a big deal out stupid crap. Christ himself was very progressive mentally. He clearly said the only way to heaven is through him and then identified himself as a vessel of pure love. Therefore the only way to happiness is love. Also, more people should realize cause and effect is physics. Karma is science. sonmy biggest warning to others after going through the death process twice and coming back is : what you wish for others becomes your fate. So wish them happiness. It ultimately all comes back on us. Thanks for reading and understanding and saying something nice. I wish you profound happiness, love, great health, wealth, and everything your heart desires. I have faith we have a solution to this degeneration. I think we have a whole new species coming up in the world. I am calling ten homo universalist. I think it won't be long now before Homo sapiens goes the way of the dodo and that is why right now the afflictive aspects of Homo sapiens is on such display. A candle burns brightest right before it runs out of fuel. Now ai look like a crazy person writing so much. I hope someone reads it if it helps. It's comforting to know we understand what is going on. Personally, I think Trump is the incarnation of the Devil. I truly do. I think it's that serious. And I think Good will win.

[@veek.6463]

Am not very educated. I lied. I went to college and did well and have read a lot of books and texts and taken hundreds if not thousands of hours of teachings in Tibet and India and Nepal but am no PhD. My mom is though! Am so proud of her. Peace. We'll make it through.

[@Eliphas_Leary]

Vee K., thank you for that text, very nice read. You may find some surprises in a talk by Daniel Everett about his time with the tribe of the Piraha in the amazonas. ;o)

[@SharksRule86]

No, I don’t want to hold your little Roswell alien.”😂

[@CAT-ce4ds]

Wow, those are shocking and disgusting wages for your teachers. In Canada, you can earn more than that teacher's posted salary, working at a Walmart, which is a minimum wage starting pay. And btw, the people who do work at these minimum wage jobs in Canada, along with the rest of us, are fighting for them to have higher wages than they already do. Be strong and stand united teachers of America. You deserve much higher wages, benefits and respect.

[@Maalstrom]

CAT minimum wage might be hitting 15$ an hour soon.

[@JimmyDeLocke]

On a roll. Thank the universe for Bill. He's a voice of reason in this crazy country.

[@timothybrown760]

Amen brother......AMEN!!! : - )

[@TheBioExplorer]

Thank you for this rule Bill! Before my husband passed away I was able to make it because of his income. Now as the sole income provider I'm struggling and still trying to provide supplies but not as much as I did before. Looks like SC MIGHT be giving us a 2% raise ... except it's not because our benefit cost increases will wipe it out. Politicians keep trying to impose ridiculous measures of teacher "accountability" and having us jump through hoops and kids taking faulty assessments so they can say they did something. Actually it has all only harmed educational quality. For the first time in my career I hesitate to encourage any of my students to enter the field of education.

[@anobjectiveninja]

These Teachers' Strikes are evidence that we desperately need unions. Unions generally might have a few negative side effects, but they are a huge net positive on society. I would rather have my tax dollars (and even pay extra in tax) go towards taking care of people who can't afford rent despite working 2 jobs, than have it go towards Wealthy Wall Street jerks or Tech Companies like Amazon getting away with tax-payer funded government handouts. This is pathetic for even a 3rd World country, let alone the "Richest country in the history of the World". Especially considering that these teachers need a teeny-tiny fraction of the money that went towards Wall Street bailout from the Obama Administration. And shame on both Republicans and Democrats for not raising more awareness about this... While Republicans stab you from the front, Democrats like Diane Fienstein and Joe Manchin stab you from the back. We need more Elizabeth Warrens, Bernies Sanders, and Ro Khannas.

[@gearhund2560]

The teachers have a Union. It is the largest in all of the US

[@MegaHentai00]

And about as powerful as any other union in the U.S. -- which is to say not at all. Americans have allowed themselves to be sold the fantasy of greedy unions sucking them dry of tax money.

[@ian1352]

Unions are a key part of a proper free market.

[@heartgirl40]

"not just the waffle house states" I died! 😂😂😂

[@harrylutzer9605]

Bravo, Bill.

[@TheFluffyWendigo]

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable- JFK

[@sleepingbackbone7581]

Mr. Maher, you're a God. My hat is off to you, sir.

[@223Drone]

I'm glad I live in a country in which invests in its teachers by giving them a living wage and the best resources that their schools can afford. In the US asking for a decent wage, up to date school equipment/text books and better funded schools makes you "entitled".

[@stormwatcher59]

Money in the US goes to support wars, weapons and the wealthy ...the 3 "W"s!

[@geraldobrien7323]

Michael Anderson Fewer hours, not less hours. Really showing off your lack of education, you jackass.

[@223Drone]

@Michael Anderson Your not paying attention. Teachers shouldn't have to do multiple jobs in order to sustain themselves.

[@223Drone]

@Michael Anderson Again your still not paying attention. The on strike have to take multiple jobs because they underpaid and are unable to sustain themselves. Add to that they have to supply all the schools equipment with their own money when they should clearly be supplied by the state. Also don't try to shift criticism onto Obama when the state leadership are the ones who refuse to give them a decent wage.

[@223Drone]

@Michael Anderson Except you have no evidence to support such a claim. The fact that teachers have to strike in order to get a decent wage in in states Oklahoma disproves that notion.

[@Jan_YTview]

Well said!

[@Placido777]

Sarah Palin once said of a teacher, that ‘her reward is in Heaven.’ Bill Maher - "Maybe, but the rent is due here on Earth.” 🤣😂😂😂😂

[@gaddyssayslsat]

One of his most important, powerful New Rules segments ever.

[@brookah100]

Why don't you shave a bit off the 'attack budget' to pay teachers. Oh, sorry I meant 'defence budget'.

[@Gaius__]

lol @ attack budget, I like that

[@chas4780]

Great show Bill. Thank you.

[@MrGeekFreek]

What happened to you America? You used to be cool.

[@temitopeshittu9521]

MrGeekFreek trump became president

[@VCYT]

cool ?, you mean pre 1776.

[@lyndiss.2017]

I thought that too. I guess we kinda just grew up and knew more.

[@sealand000]

VC YT perhaps pre-1492?

[@adeyemisiadekunle7989]

50 plus years of corruption; demonizing unions and getting rid of them; gerrymandering, pitting everyone against the so-called other; chipping away at everything that made America great and the land of opportunity. Those immigrants Americans are so worried about taking their jobs is becoming and will be the new reality, not because they are working illegally or for less money but because they are the only ones qualified for jobs. I now understand why some Americans choose to home school.

[@OllyRoberton]

320 bucks??? That's £225 here in the UK...that's what you pay your TEACHERS?!? That's obscene...what is going on in America?? How can so many people be getting screwed by the system??

[@cmodzins]

Lenny Bruce was talking about this in the early 60s.

[@ext1013]

goosebumps...i'm having goosebumps hearing this....unbelievable....

[@Mayabee321]

I hate being an American citizen. We have no rights. But people still think we have them. It’s insane. I wish I could leave and go somewhere else but I’m trapped

[@jeromemaida4933]

Go fuck yourself loser. Get the hell out.

[@franceszapata951]

Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States... if you think you have no rights, imagine how we are treated.

[@irenamangone]

Thank you for supporting teachers

[@NamhadiNdemufayo]

"...not just the Waffle House states." Had me rolling.

[@DonGius1]

4:35, me too for Hollywood, but we are ok with that🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MrGeekFreek]

I believe that the children are our future...unless we stop them now.

[@mnirwin5112]

"No, I don't want to hold your little Roswell alien ..." ROFL

[@leanneblake4248]

Our School Teacher's in Australia make $70,000- a year . starting wage.Public Schools . They don't by pens or books. The Department of Education/Government And not to mention we have National Health care.

[@virginiagarcia2917]

They don't by pens. Or they don't buy pens. I am horrified at the way Americans write, now that I have been reading about politics. I now understand why they voted for the 45, who has no morals, who wants to ged rid of Planned Parenhood, and who doesn't care about soldiers been killed in the middle East. To have the nerve who just became a widow that her husband knew what he was getting into when sign up to go to war. I just hope that whwn he gets empeached he gets send to Guantanamo to pay for all his crimes of leza majestad. Because everything he is commiting is against humanity. Atentamente Virginia. Love and Peace!

[@rareluck]

So well put!!!

[@brandonmaddox4862]

I make more than $320 a week but I work at UPS part time, this ridiculous way we treat teachers is alarming and horrifying

[@P2T2Films]

Thank you Bill. Thank you.

[@nicholasheimann4629]

Education is fundamental to the Republic! Cut military spending if you need to.

[@davenaden8115]

Bill Maher is the funniest man on earth.

[@XopheAdethri]

I'm an adult with no children. I endorse tax hikes for schools.

[@EyesOfByes]

4:13 I've heard "the fly-over states", but "the Waffle House states" was a on a whole new level 😂

[@osivot]

Think twice before cheering for tax cuts.

[@jeromemaida4933]

Kiss my ass.

[@aleaiactaest8354]

Great that Maher gives this issue attention! Kudos to teachers.

[@brandonizaguirre2963]

I hate to be that guy but I'm finding myself strangely attracted to that teacher in the picture.

[@r.j.whitaker]

I'm pretty sure you are not the only one 👩🏼‍🏫

[@NeelLLumi-AnCatDubh]

Hey, you added closed captions! So awesome of you guys

[@rymdalkis]

If we're gonna run the country like a business like all the republicans want, then how about we make sure that our employees have the competence and education needed to make the business profitable?

[@burger_kinghorn]

rymdalkis but as George Carlin said, the owners of this country don't want a well-educated well-informed population capable of critical thinking. It doesn't serve their interests. Just obedient workers

[@ian1352]

When they say run it like a business they mean a sweatshop. They talk about meritocracy, but what they really mean is that whoever has the connections and money runs the show.

[@allentowngal4769]

My favorite commentary of yours yet. Our national treasure is children and those who teach them. The foundation of America. A weak foundation crumbles in the future.

[@ZachTheRantingGuy]

Hilarious News Rules tonight Bill! We need to educate our kids and teach them how to learn, educate themselves and think for themselves and work hard.

[@VCYT]

An some day, next century, that might happen.

[@feetheweasel]

Zachary Xavier first it was George W. Then they wanted Sarah Palin. They got Trump.....so what's the next logical choice for conservatives.....it's gotta be Scott Baio or Ted Nugent....that's what's happened to America. We let ppl who believe ghosts can fly down from the sky with the sperm of a higher being and impregnate a virgin. Who then gives birth to some sort of half human half baby God....we let these ppl vote. That's what happened. The gullible can be led anywhere.

[@heidirobinson6406]

Valid point regarding teachers!! 🖋🎤💃🎸🎷⚰🔭🎼⚰🌎🎻🎺🥁📚📚📚🏝🙏💄

[@NewMessage]

I'm all for treating kids better.. unless you mean choosing between them and the AR15 that I need to feel like a real man in a frightening, frightening world... I mean to hunt! I meant to hunt. Then, yknow.. screw 'em.

[@heidirobinson6406]

When I was in High School (in the mid 1990's) in Texas, one of my Science teachers has 3 jobs.

[@Nylak-Otter]

My girlfriend teaches high school advanced/AP biology, has two degrees, and gets paid less than my manager did when I worked at Walmart. ...And, bless her heart, I've seen her shoot, and she'd be more likely to tag a student than an armed shooter, and she actually has firearm experience and owns more than one. Don't arm teachers.

[@Kenny_K2323]

Bless that teacher.

[@1nervie]

"her reward is in heaven, but Rents due on earth". "In Florida your first lay." "Your Rosewell alien",

[@kerryzagarella5351]

spot on!

[@joryjones6808]

Bill Maher is like if captain Picard smoked weed.

[@VCYT]

Greatest compliment !!

[@ameyagokhale5123]

If anyone makes his face on the WTF meme... I'll pay you

[@przytulanka1979]

I love everything you said about children.

[@channelforpositivitylunder9385]

It's *insane* going to school is mandatory and so you're stuck in class paranoid of getting shot.. :'( (of course there are other places where people get shot but those places are not where you need to be Mandatorily so those ppl who made it mandatory (the gov) need to really step up to protect these schools)

[@alainarchambault2331]

Get rid of all semi automatic weapons, and even revolvers.

[@NJ-wb1cz]

2:19 "Does everyone laugh at this, or am I outing myself?"

[@kefkapalazzo1]

Also you’d have to do really like being a teacher to do this. You can probably work 2 part time jobs for less hours and more mone

[@MelioraCogito]

Fix the typo's please.

[@pamelacass9642]

...and less aggravation. We don't see these kids for the 1st 5 years of their lives, but we're trusted to influence their behaviors and thinking? I had teachers who should never be given a gun. Wonder if Betsey's teacher would have taken a gun? I'm also guessing that Der Trump got put in military school for behavior (doesn't seem to have worked). Before he went, he reportedly punched a teacher. If I or any of my classmates had done that, I certain our tombstones would have mentioned it.

[@pamelacass9642]

...and less aggravation. We don't see these kids for the 1st 5 years of their lives, but we're trusted to influence their behaviors and thinking? I had teachers who should never be given a gun. Wonder if Betsey's teacher would have taken a gun? I'm also guessing that Der Trump got put in military school for behavior (doesn't seem to have worked). Before he went, he reportedly punched a teacher. If I or any of my classmates had done that, I certain our tombstones would have mentioned it.

[@vincentkrommenhoek7431]

Great writing! Kudos

[@christinacope562]

Property taxes on homeowners while business gets abatements cannot continue to fund schools, most of which goes to administrators who have very little contact with students(same as CEOs lack of interaction with employees). Another funding method must be found. KY gave their 1% a tax cut though so I am sure that helped to give teachers pay raise. NOT. I don't want my child to go through metal detectors to go to class with their clear backpacks. And I don't want teachers armed for war to read Dr. Suess. Other civilized countries don't have this problem. But of course they are better educated and have healthcare that covers mental illness than good ole USA, #1 my ass.

[@AngstyAnon]

0:46 Jesus 😂😂😂

[@hutch1197]

"It's the teachers fault! They're incompetent!" Well...if you're offering $320/month, you're not going to your pick of the best people, are you?

[@pamelacass9642]

Salary has very little to do with competency as a teacher. Remember who ever you thought was the WORST professor in college?

[@pamelacass9642]

Salary has very little to do with competency as a teacher. Remember who ever you thought was the WORST professor in college?

[@4urluvjones155]

Bravo Bill!!!

[@dabblerdeluxe775]

I hope that photo at the end was shopped because the trump boys look like beavis and butthead

[@dabblerdeluxe775]

shesh so much for "Muh Superior Genes"

[@sealand000]

Please don't insult Beavis and Butthead.

[@catherineleary9831]

" No I don't want to hold your little Roswell alien" 👽 that's exactly how I feel 😂

[@DBMe33]

What earth am I on? I apparently, delusionally thought that u had to be 18 to marry in the US period. 😯

[@VCYT]

So did i, tho i a brit, an figured its the same in usa. oops.

[@Maalstrom]

One image for them, one image for the rest of the world.

[@pamelacass9642]

Back in the day, it was hard to be a woman who was bartered for marriage. Dowries, replacing women who died in childbirth, left no time or inclination for education. As birth rates fell and fewer women died and started outliving the husbands, we started seeing the creeps who felt entitled to a young wife. Because there was more where they came from. This country tried polygamy, and I believe those men who cheat would jump at the chance in a minute. How many young girls are flattered by the attention of an older man? How many young girls get "sold" by their parents? Ask Ivanka.

[@angelrivera2339]

What I find incredible that there are people in this country that dedicated and giving to the children that they serve.

[@TheMel0mano19]

Teachers don't need a raise! We need that money for the wall! 😒😒

[@manuginobilisbaldspot424]

The emojis give it away. Clear sarcasm. I need a wall so some of my students can climb out some of their energy. Especially on Mondays. Not enough Starbucks in the cup for Monday mornings

[@madferit1987]

It says a lot about the society we live in, where people have to second guess, if this is sarcasm or not. Nonetheless, I disagree with you on the basis that Mexico will pay for the wall!

[@karinbarger9192]

Lol

[@WIGGYDON1]

Wait! What! Where! When!, Wasn't that Mexico's job?🤔

[@youstolethecookie]

TheMel0mano19 dick

[@gusstavv]

This is the best new rules so far.

[@kefkapalazzo1]

Literally me from 0:00-0:30

[@Crimsontekkadan]

kefkapalazzo1 yep thats me as well

[@doesnotcompute3174]

Yeah nobody cares about your disability. Brainless idiots with missing chromosomes like you and Maher love dumb animals like dogs, but despise babies. There has to be something wrong with your brain.

[@kefkapalazzo1]

James Anderson it’s changed. Words only ave the meaning we give them. I gave up

[@kefkapalazzo1]

Fawkzzz lol go to bed you fucking loser

[@kefkapalazzo1]

James Anderson quite literally (use were accustomed to) you can look in plenty of modern dictionaries and find that “literally” also is used for emphasis. I’m not uneducated you just don’t understand the fundamentally arbitrary nature of language. And if you can’t use context clues to figure out I meant have them boy you really gotta get your head from your ass

[@mrMJW9210]

Very true statements!!

[@Cameron9551]

An overwhelming reason why teachers are paid so poorly in the US is because the vast majority of them are woman. If most teachers were men the pay would be a hell of a lot better.

[@zack19192]

lol

[@bikemaurice1953]

Thanx for standing up for teachers o-o ^_^