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Originally posted by KSig RC
Here's the thing, though - I can see where you're coming from here. I just don't think it's at all related to unemployment.
There are literally dozens of areas you've made valid points, but using unemployment statistics really isn't one of them, from my end.
I do feel for teachers, in many ways - while many people are forced to pay for continuing education (attorneys pay out the ass for CLE, often) to stay certified, many make more than teachers. I'm not sure I know the solution, though - it's obviously partly supply and demand . . . around here, the 'better' teaching jobs often get hundreds of applicants for a single position. It's also difficult to say where the money should come from - is it the Federal Gov't's job to pay teachers, who are not Federal employees? I don't really know . . . I'm fairly sure, though, that you can't just take the dollars going to Iraq and give them to teachers - but perhaps I'm wrong.
So yeah - I feel where you're coming from, but I don't have any clue where to even start. Any suggestions?
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mini-hijack on education...
I kind of feel that the federal government should pay teachers. I say this because NCLB is a federal law that they are making us adhere to. (And I hate NCLB btw). The problem is that the federal government gives the money to the states and it seems like they really aren't "checking" to make sure the money is spent properly. The thing is I live and work in AZ. We are number 50 when it comes to teacher pay, per child spending and anything else having to do with education.
I wish they could take the money for the war and give it to teachers. I mean the way I see it who is educating those "future soldiers" or "future presidents" or "future million dollar basketball, baseball players", I am. Yet, I can barely afford to live. I had to sell my house because I couldn't afford to live in it because my salary is so crappy. Not that this has anything to do with the war, I'm just saying.
I wish I knew a solution. I don't though.
CLE: continuing legal education? Man do I even want to apply to law school now?
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