“Other correct answers include, “They don’t want their own children condemned to the educational hell-hole in which they themselves work and they cannot afford private schools.””
That article was obviously heavily influenced by the teachers unions. Very biased in favor of higher pay for teachers and anti-standardized testing.
Two of my favorite questions are these:
First question: “why do you want to pay teachers higher salaries?” Answer: “if we pay higher salaries, we’ll get better teachers.”
Follow up question: “If you get better teachers, what are you going to do with the ones you have now? The one’s that aren’t good enough.”
First question: why do you want to pay teachers higher salaries? Answer: if we pay higher salaries, well get better teachers.
Follow up question: If you get better teachers, what are you going to do with the ones you have now? The ones that arent good enough.
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Related question: Administrators & "associations" are tasked with hiring the best people and, respectively, raising the caliber of their members (yeah, right). Is it time to begin clearing out the dead wood in those two groups before an uncontrollable forest fire breaks out?
[mutter, mutter, mutter..."Never happen!", says the old grouch, "never happen".]