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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If money was no object, what would schools look like today? How would they do things differently?

1) I think teacher training should be more like what doctors go through. 
2) I think there would be 2 shifts of teachers. 7-3 and 10-6. And the early morning and late afternoon would allow kids to join clubs or explore other interests. 
3) teachers would have secretaries. You don't have lawyers making their own copies, why should teachers?[/quote]

I think the fundamentals would be different.  The state benefits from an educated population, so I think public schools would still take all comers, however, I think we’d make school attendance voluntary (and perhaps incentivized) rather than compulsory.  We just don’t have a society that buys in to a compulsory model anymore—we don’t enforce truancy laws against parents / school aged kids.  We could have a society that would send their kids to school ready to learn if incentivized (read: parents were paid) to do so.  Increase the compensation paid of the kid scores in the top half / top 25% for their school on standardized tests.  Also increase the compensation for parents making less than median income, and further increase it if they are in the bottom quarter.  Those changes could fundamentally alter how folks (ie parents) view and value an education (for their kids).[/quote]

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