Utterly Meaningless

Does anyone know how much police chiefs are paid?

Researchers agree that one of the best things government can do to help poor children is raise teacher quality.
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Absolutely, I agree. Put the kids with those who took them from not being able to form a detectible word to mastery of a whole new language in under 3 (sometimes 2) years…walking…tieing shoes….controlling bodily functions….behaving in a socially acceptible manner…all the complicated stuff. Everything else is easy in comparison and schools actually un-teach some of the above.

The highest quality teachers are the parents.

Parents, (not of homeschoolers, I am aiming this at parents of kids in public school…again, I guess I’m preaching to the choir), I would only like to say that your kids are spending more time in school than they are spending with you. I have seen recent studied that stay at home moms should, if they got paid for it, earn upwards of 100,000 dollars a year. I feel like it is madness to hear that figure quoted in one sentence, and in another sentence hear that teachers, who spend more time than the parents with the children, and who, probobly, do more for raising the kids than the parents do (even stay at home ones) should earn less.

In many big districts??? In CT, which has some of the highest teacher salaries in the nation, starting pay is certainly under 40,000. In some states, the starting pay is in the low 20’s.
The simple fact is this: yes parents are better teachers, but if they want to give up their duty, and right, to raise their children, they should be expected to pay for it.

I’ve got a better idea– kill the government monopoly on schooling. Then everything else will take care of itself.