Re: the sad impending reality of american education Archived Message
Posted by opinionated on March 2, 2011, 10:27 pm, in reply to "Re: the sad impending reality of american education "
it is simple - if you pay teachers a 6-figure salary, then you would attract the most intelligent of the benevolent...and the quality of That's not necessarily true Lib. I know great teachers who started twenty five years ago making less than ten grand a year. At the time, that's what the market bore. If you paid teachers six figures it might have a short term effect on people choosing the field but in reality it wouldn't last long. Pretty soon the number would be $150,000. As you pointed out about yourself, you didn't go into teaching to make money. Until we as Americans place an importance on education, we will fail. That doesn't always mean more money. Parents need to be more involved and focused on their child's education. In my home kids did their homework before anything else at night. I sat with them and checked that homework afterwards. I talked to them weekly about tests they took. I stayed in communications with their teachers and in those days it had to be by phone or personal visit and not through a computer. I don't think the quality of the teacher has changed in the last fifty years. I think the focus we put on eduation has. We're failing our kids.
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