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Originally Posted by Rekna
First teachers in this country are paid way to little. In my home town teachers were making around 18k a year starting out. Educating our population is one of the most important jobs around why is it that our teachers are being paid like high school drop outs? How can we increase there pay? Should we increase taxes, decrease spending, ect?
Second there is a culture of "I don't care" in our youth. It isn't cool to be smart so why should people care. Are Americans to spoiled that they are now getting lazy and don't care about trying to make a life for themselves?
I think parents are a large part of the problem. Parents need to encourage there kids to do well in school, push them, challenge them, and don't let them just give up. What motivation is there for a child to learn if his or her parent's are going to just give them everything? Should you really buy that D average child of yours a cell phone? Make your children do well in school in order to earn the luxuries they now think they deserve.
What do you think is the cause of this problem and what can we do to stop it?
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No one likes a speling/grammar nazi, and yet I feel compelled to bring this up since it is relevant to the thread topic.
In your OP you misuse there/their/they're and to/too/two several times and typed "ect" rather than "etc," perhaps due to lack of knowledge of what etc means. Etc. is shorthand for "et cetera" and is typically pronounced et-see by people who use it frequently. These are things that a lot of people have trouble with, and yet is taught early on. Why do people in their child-bearing years struggle with things we are taught in grade school (admittedly, you used it correctly once below, so may have just been tired/inattentive when writing the OP)? My guess, is a lack of reading.
While in public school I read roughly a book a week, and it is a hobby that I carried from grade school through to today (though most of my reading these days is online.) Simply seeing proper usage of words over and over again in books is helpful in pounding into someone's head how the written word should look, and how certain words are used. If you do not read often, it will be more difficult to understand there/their/they're and to/too/two in context with how they should be used (among other things..) If a teacher doesn't fulfill his or her basic responsibility to force/encourage students to read, I wouldn't pay them any more than $18k either.