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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And for more proof just go to the thread about kids not knowing where to get information to study and teachers not having textbooks that align with standards just below this one. The whole system is ineffective. And yet come budget time the only thing I hear teachers talking about is salary. Every Single Year. Can't speak up about meetings or ineffective teaching, but yet somehow they find their voice on salary. They are all over our school board budget meetings then.[/quote]

Because teachers work to live.  Salary is the over-riding factor.  Duh!  I am sure that it would be your primary factor, too, if you had to go to your Board or other entity head each year for salary funding.  If the school systems are ineffective and do not deploy resources so that teachers are able to effectively and efficiently teach so that children learn, well, it makes sense that this would be a secondary concern.  But everyone in the job market in the US wants to be paid.  That is the way our democratic and capitalistic society works.  If you want something else then you need to go to another country.[/quote]

However this opinion is what is causing the charter schools and private schools to rise. If no one in the public school system is willing to work on change out of fear of retribution and just act like a sheep who is going to be paid for showing up no matter how ineffective they are, it's no wonder that people are looking at other options. The government will eventually cave if it is not effective.[/quote]

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