Posted on 09/08/2015 9:12:04 AM PDT by rktman
The end of summer is upon us and with same comes the Erebusic Satanic ritual notably called return to public school. Public schools since the early 1970s have served to prepare public-school teachers for comfortable retirements and prepare the students relegated to them for lowered expectations and conformity to social Marxism.
If more money were the cure to the educational malaise, public schools would be graduating entire classes of Einsteins and Socrateses. But instead, they are promoting students grade-to-grade who cannot make change unless the cash register tells them the correct amount and who are, by definition, illiterate in geography, literature and factual history.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, expenditures per student in public elementary and secondary schools from 2000-01 to 2011-12 increased by 11 percent, after adjusting for inflation. This amount peaked in 2010-11 at $11,332. The total expenditures for public elementary and secondary schools in the U.S. amounted to $621 billion in 2011-12.
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and for far too many years, far far too many “conservatives” have gone along hook line and sinker with all the “raise teacher pay” scams...not realizing that probably 20 years ago, we crossed the rubicon into over pay under perform.
So I guess that means they need more money, right?
Bingo.
Well heck yeah. I mean if you REALLY want to correct the whole system. LOL!
Maybe we should pay students instead.................
Overpaid teachers tuning out illiterate students
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Yep. I know one that just retired. He is 52. I have known some that retire as young as 47.
Nice reward for a subpar performance.
If they were underpaid, there would be millions of teaching jobs going begging....quite the opposite is true. You have to have connections in most areas of the country to get a gig.
amazing how many so called conservatives seem to ignore supply and demand -one of the basic human nature conservatives laws of economics - when discussing teachers.
and for far too many years, far far too many “conservatives” have gone along hook line and sinker with all the “raise teacher pay” scams...not realizing that probably 20 years ago, we crossed the rubicon into over pay under perform.
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YUP! It’s the GOPe’ers like you that always want to fight todays battle tomorrow that lead us here... it was almost 30 years ago that the SAT was inflated to cover falling scores by making the max grade 2400 instead of 1600.
This is why merit pay would be a good idea. Teachers who perform and deserve a raise could get it without all the incompetent, lazy ideologues who pass as teachers getting one also.
Actually not a bad idea, but then there would be perverse incentives to cheat the performance measuring device.
They could pay them for good test scores, but then the test givers would cheat.
BTW I’ve been on the right side of this issue since I was in my earlyt 20s......I know you don’t understand that kind of ahead of the curve ability, given that you don’t have it and resent it in me.
See you in 20 years....where I am today.
For the most part “educators” are over paid and under worked. Test scores continue downward while they complain about their benefits. Clowns.
Its amazing to think that there were better education outcomes in decades past.
For example, Dunbar High School in Washington DC was a prominent black high school back in the days when DC had legally segregated schools. Today its just another ghetto school.
At one time, people wanted to live in New York City because of the reputation and quality of the NY public school system.
In rural America, some places had the proverbial one room schoolhouse. Yet students learned to read and write.
And has the state of public education improved since Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education???
I took the SAT in 1997, and it was still 1600 max score.
I agree.
Something to consider. According to deToqueville America’s literacy rate was higher BEFORE we had public schools.
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