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To: defconw
I've known for a long time that the ONLY way to fix the education system is to get rid of the unions and the bureaucracy.

Good teachers DESERVE to be paid for what they do, and the money is there to do it once all the "dead weight" is removed. Teaching should be like any other line of work: those who are good at it should be paid accordingly and those who can't do it need to be fired.

I went to a very good private school (all of the graduates went to college, average SAT score was over 1200 back when it was just math and verbal, etc.), where the teachers weren't paid much more than in public schools, but they were great teachers. There were several teachers who had been at the school for over thirty years and had taught the parents of current students. They loved teaching; they weren't looking to get rich, but they deserved to be paid what they were worth. They also had the benefit of not having to teach problem students who had no intention of ever learning anything.

9 posted on 01/16/2015 7:02:05 AM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee
It's the UNION, not the teachers per se, many teachers pay the dues so that they are not harassed by the true believers and I agree there are many fine teachers but there are a lot of CRAP teachers as well. I know I had any number of them.

I know many good teachers that teach at private schools for less money because they can avoid the government mandates, at least on some things (that's getting harder as well)and the unions.

But lest we be lead astray from the issue at hand which is abortion. Sure there are "good" teachers that fully support abortion, birth control, euthanasia, embryonic stem cells, etc. Some do because they are deep as a thimble, some because they actually have no problem with it. The danger is they are teaching our kids.

14 posted on 01/16/2015 7:23:45 AM PST by defconw (If not now, WHEN?)
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