"Eat yogurt for a year and I'll give you a raise"
Forbes looks that the problems with teaching today:
"If you look at any school's budget, it is all salaries. That is what you can fix. Right? We know no reform can get into a classroom that bypasses teachers and the way they teach. But we have looked for [these reforms] everywhere….
"If you look at any school's budget, it is all salaries. That is what you can fix. Right? We know no reform can get into a classroom that bypasses teachers and the way they teach. But we have looked for [these reforms] everywhere….
We have looked at money. It's as if teachers who are in the classroom day after day won't teach everything they know how to teach until you give them more money. Give me another $1,000 and I'll really teach kids how to read? We have looked at longer days, a longer week and a longer year to keep the kids in school. All we found is that we end up taking away the social skills children need to get along in this world and we burn out teachers. Teaching is a very demanding and difficult profession. To do it five or six days a week, 11months a year is not a tenable career choice."
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