Frighteningly enough, Will...I find myself in agreement with
most of your suggestions. The only one that I'm wary about is...
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Originally Posted by Willravel
- free college for teachers and tripling the current education budget.
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Tripling the current budget will, in my opinion, just encourage more waste. Look at the defense budget for a good example of that. Simply tossing more money at the problem won't fix it. And, so far as free college for teachers...I can go along with that...provided that they are required to put in X amount of years into the profession, with Y amount of those years in an inner city or an "at risk" school. Not right away. I wouldn't throw a newbie teacher to the wolves like that. They should perhaps apprentice for a couple of years under a seasoned educator, get their "feet wet", then go show what they've got. Kind of like a residency.
Other than that...believe it or not...I actually think that some of your ideas are pretty sound. Frankly...and I hate to sound cliche...but kids today are
not getting the education that I got. And, I didn't get the education that my parents got. It's got to end.