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Report as: spam offensive student on 11/16/06 at 11am

I don't see why people wonder why our education system is constantly broken. If few of our best and brightest see teaching as a lucrative career, we're setting ourselves up for disaster.
Here's my plan for education reform that's backed by absolutely no research or knowledge of how our education system works:
1) Stop wasting money on fancy classroom technology.
2) Use the money saved there, along with more money from (GASP!) taxes to pay teachers competitive wages.
3) Make it easier for administrators to fire crappy teachers.
Smart people make better teachers. Smart people are worth more on the job market. If you want smart people teaching your kids, you have to pay them what they're worth. It's not rocket science.




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