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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I posted about Finland's model.  Of course we can't get rid of our current teachers but starting soon, make teaching a more appealing job for younger people by offering a higher salary.  Offer incentives for the best students to study education in college like no student loans.  We have 2 new teachers at our school who graduated last year.  One of them told me she owes around $55k in student loans.  That is ridiculous!  She is probably earning no more than $45k per year.[/quote]

And that differs from many other occupations how?

Doctors and Lawyers often have 4 times that debt.[/quote]

Somehow I just knew somebody was going to say that, even though it's totally irrelevant

Do you want really good, highly qualified people to go into teaching? Then make sure they at least earn enough to be able to pay their student loans.

Similarly, do you want really good, highly qualified people to go into primary care medicine, as opposed to a specialty? Then make sure they at least earn enough to be able to pay their student loans.

(I'm not going to say anything about lawyers because we'd all be better off -- including lawyers -- with fewer people going to law school.)[/quote]

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