Hello cawacko,
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cawacko
No Poli, it's not deflection. Often I'm happy to post links, data and info but if you really aren't aware of the amount of money we've spent on education then it's not worth my time. If you're interested then you'll read about it. And if you don't want to read, for example, that money goes to administrators and not the classroom and that's why teachers pay for their own supplies, then again its on you.
At a certain you have to have interest in the topic.
OK, so we agree then. Teacher pay has not been increased significantly.
That's why it is possible to find examples of welfare recipients collecting more than a teacher is paid.
Doesn't show much respect for teachers.
And it doesn't inspire talented people to become teachers.
Of course, that's not the whole problem with public education but it sure would help to have better teachers. Despair of poverty is also a huge factor in student performance. We really do have a lot of poor people in the USA. Parents who don't know how to be successful struggle to inspire self-confidence in their children, relegating poverty and lack of success to a cross-generational problem. Our public education system can hardly be expected to make up for uninspired parenting.
It's almost like it would behoove the USA to pay the parents attend school alongside their children, and to embark on a program to not only educate children, but empower parents to be more successful as well.
Maybe if we did that for a generation we could begin to break the cycle of poverty.
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