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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe if the GOP stopped gutting our public education and our universities, including the schools of education that train our future teachers, were not castigated constantly, and perhaps if teachers were offered a decent wage and treated with more respect, we would have better outcomes.[/quote] U.S. spends more per pupil than many Asian countries. Unfortunately a lot of that money does not go to teacher salaries but to administrators, extra staff, and stupid spending on consultants and other BS. We should be spending more to attract better teachers. I believe the quality has gone downhill because we used to have better teachers simply because intelligent women didn’t used to have many career options, but now they do. We especially need more male teachers in the younger grades. Higher salaries would help this. Unfortunately a lot of the qualities that make teachers great might be considered subjective, and therefore we are stuck with the system that rewards teacher equally in spite of their abilities. Also in Asian schools at least the one I taught at, the kids do jobs during the day like serving and cleaning up after lunch, and they clean the school. There is no janitor. Classes had between 30 and 40 kids each. Compared to schools in the US, the kids are actually engaged in non-academic activities quite a big percentage of the time. They have music and art through ninth grade and a lot of time is spent on breaks and structured social activities of various types. The kids are not automatons. [/quote]
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