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re: It's way past time to overhaul our education system
Posted on 10/1/14 at 9:41 am to the808bass
Posted on 10/1/14 at 9:41 am to the808bass
3 things that bother me:
--teachers are horribly underpaid.
--I'm a republican, but NCLB enacted by Bush was terrible. It enacted a lot of controversial/unfair policies that affected different schools in different ways. Not a coincidence everyone hated it, and I'm glad it's being phased the frick out. Common Core is a little better but like it's been mentioned, teaching to/for a test and cutting out a lot of other curriculum as a result just looks like kids are missing out on so much more...Just bothers me. Some of the material in certain subjects are absurd too, but some of it has been good as well.
--education is a mess. Too much meddling by the federal and state gov't to agree on certain parameters. Every state has different rules, different schedules, and its just seems like it's all ballooned into a over-complicated pile of dogshit that no one is going to able to fix.
*sigh*
--teachers are horribly underpaid.
--I'm a republican, but NCLB enacted by Bush was terrible. It enacted a lot of controversial/unfair policies that affected different schools in different ways. Not a coincidence everyone hated it, and I'm glad it's being phased the frick out. Common Core is a little better but like it's been mentioned, teaching to/for a test and cutting out a lot of other curriculum as a result just looks like kids are missing out on so much more...Just bothers me. Some of the material in certain subjects are absurd too, but some of it has been good as well.
--education is a mess. Too much meddling by the federal and state gov't to agree on certain parameters. Every state has different rules, different schedules, and its just seems like it's all ballooned into a over-complicated pile of dogshit that no one is going to able to fix.
*sigh*
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Posted on 10/1/14 at 9:48 am to dead money
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--teachers are horribly underpaid.
Disagree.
A teacher with 20 years experience and a Master's degree will make $80k+ here in suburban STL. Not bad for a 9-month job (to say nothing of one of the best retirement systems around). This isn't universal, but as this shows, neither is bad teacher pay.
A problem is that many good teachers will leave the system early on because pay is tied completely to longevity.
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