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It costs $13,000 per student in the Atlanta public schools. And only 44% of 8th graders can do math at their grade level. Other test scores are just as bad.

If the teachers are earning so much money, why does Georgia have the lowest SAT scores in the country? What are these teachers teaching?

If the teachers are earning so much money, why does Georgia have the lowest SAT scores in the country? What are these teachers teaching?

They aren't. And to think, close to 50% of all state budgets go toward "eduation." That's our tax dollars going down the rat hole along with our childrens' and our country's future.

I was told last year...when I expressed interest in getting into the teaching profession...that Georgia was desperate for teachers. People would go into the state system....realize that they could make a better salary in Atlanta...and dump the teaching job after five years. The state was desperate to keep their teacher positions filled and were constantly recruiting non-teachers to come in and take positions. My guess is that the state has raised the pay level every year over the last ten years to help stop the exodus of teachers into the Atlanta job market. And this is the result of that effort. You've got people who are making a heck of alot of money (probably the ten-year veterans of the teaching corps)....and they have way too much money on their hands.