CA: State spends millions luring teachers amid layoffs

Sac Bee ^ | 3/18/03 | Daniel Weintraub

[NormsRevenge]

Even as school districts are warning thousands of teachers that they might be laid off this fall, California is still spending millions of dollars to lure new teachers to the profession through programs created at the height of what state officials once thought was going to be a decadelong teacher shortage.

[NormsRevenge]

Damn the icebergs!! Full Steam Ahead!!

[TheSpottedOwl]

All is well with Gray Davis at the helm.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Classroom teachers are an anachronism in the age of digital learning systems.

How much longer must we endure the wasting of billions on the futile attempt to maintain 19th century instructional models?

[ladylib]

Kids are tired of going to school too. It's just as easy to stay home, grab a snack when you want, go to the bathroom when you want without begging some teacher, get up and walk around your house without a pass, wear what you want, learn what you want, when you want, and with whom you want as an instructor. Why jump through hoops anymore? Public schools are definitely very unattractive places to be nowadays to many kids, what with zero-tolerance, drug tests, multiculturism, queasy, stomach-turning homosexual indoctrination classes, etc., etc.

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Bricks and mortar schools are running scared.