- It's horrifying, yet unsurprising.
And that's sad because you want to preserve
your ability to be surprised still.
- My name is Sam hello.
I worked in special education for four years and now I also,
I'm a substitute teacher for anything from preschool
to 12th grade.
- Hi my name is Tselane, and I am a science teacher.
- I'm CT and I was a teacher's assistant for two years
teaching both fourth and fifth grade.
- And I'm Dan.
I was an adjunct professor for one year at an art school.
- Art school.
- And today we're going to answer some
true/false questions.
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- The pupil-to-teacher ratio in 1970 was 22.3;
in 2011 to 2012, that ratio was actually lower
in public elementary schools, 21.2.
- That was a lot of numbers. - That's a lot of numbers.
- I mean that just seems ...
- That seems like a hard false.
- Impossible.
- I feel like the ratio is bigger today.
- Yeah the ratio is way bigger today.
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- Oh. - All right well.
- Good for the future children of the world.
- On average teachers who used their own money on classroom
supplies spent $479, although some teachers reported ...
- To spend more than $1,000 on supplies.
- Yeah I mean that has to be true.
I would say even like higher than $1,000.
- I would say true.
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- True great.
- Yes that exists, but that sucks.
- Terrible systemic problem.
(laughing)
- Only 6.8% of public school educators who left teaching
voluntarily in 2012 to 2013 cited salary and other job
benefits as the most important factor in their decision,
according to a Department of Education survey.
- False, it's got to be more.
- It would be insane if it wasn't more.
- I would say false actually.
- I say false.
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- What?
- Oh.
- In the 2014 to 2015 school year,
54% of public school teachers said they spent their own
money on supplies for their classrooms.
- Yeah true. - That's so true.
- I feel like it's higher, but I mean I guess
there're the ones that admitted to it
and then the ones that actually did it.
- Right.
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- That is an upsetting number 94.
- Yeah.
- You with your little tricky one word off.
- You got me.
As of the Fall of 2016, there were 1.6 million elementary
and secondary school teachers working full time in the U.S.
- Why not? There's a lot of people in the world.
- Yeah. - That's too big of a number.
- That's too big of a number. (upbeat music)
- Whoa. - Wow.
- I knew that. - At least we were correct.
(laughing)
- About one in 50 teachers leave their jobs
within their first three years true or false?
I agree.
- That is so true.
- Absolutely false and it has to be way higher.
- It's got to be higher. (upbeat music)
- Not one in 50 but one in five.
Although it's one of the most rewarding jobs you can have
because kids are amazing, it's not paid very well.
- And it's not the kids.
It's the administrators and the parents.
- According to the National Center for Education Statistics,
57% of public school teachers hold a Master's
degree or higher.
- I'm only saying false because I feel like you guys like
to trick like it's actually 55% not 57%.
- Yes it's 92% - Yeah.
- True. - True.
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- Okay. - You're like I quit.
- It's true okay.
- That is definitely true.
Sylvester Stallone briefly taught psychical education
at a boarding school in Switzerland.
- Didn't he do soft core pornography?
- Sounds pretty random.
- That's awful so it's probably true.
- I'm going to say false just because.
- I'm going to say false just for the sake of argument.
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- It's true. - That's what I meant.
- Adjusted for inflation, teacher salaries were 1% less for
the 2015-2016 school year than they were in 1990 to 1991.
- 1% less, I think that's false.
- Yeah I would say false too. - That's false.
- I'd say adjusted for inflation yeah definitely.
- Yeah.
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- I'm getting stressed out now.
- Yeah, yeah it's getting hot in here.
- Corporal punishment such as paddling is still allowed
at public schools in 4 states.
- Probably true because it just seems like maybe there
are some obscure laws that haven't been taken off the books.
- I think that's true.
- And I think Texas is one of them.
- I would actually say that it's false because I would
imagine there's more where it hasn't been taken
off the books.
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- That it's legal?
- 19 is too many.
- Are you serious?
- 19 states are paddling children?
- I grew up in the Florida public school system.
I never saw a teacher directly strike a student,
but I did see a lot of grabbing by the collar to remove
them from a classroom, which is very physically violent.
- All right 63% of teachers in the U.S. work second jobs
to help pay their bills.
- Oh yes. - Hi.
- I want to say false because I bet that is higher.
- What is the number 63?
- It's probably something like 80 something.
- False.
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16 work second jobs?
Oh wow.
- That's great.
- Who is taking these tests and who is filling
this paperwork out?
Because I've never filled that paperwork out,
and neither have all my teacher friends.
- I mean know as an adjunct I couldn't live off
the salary I was making as a teacher.
That's why I worked two jobs.
- This game was very enlightening.
- I feel that there are so many problems with our education
system in the United States.
- There were a few that I was surprised by.
- I feel less positive about our direction than I did
when I sat down.
- We probably never would have otherwise learned this.
So this game just did us a real service.
- Thank you to the teachers who are 94% of us paying with
our own money to teach our students, and just being there.
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