Sobering News...But Exciting...

[Prof]

One point made in this video...the top 25% of students in China equal more students than we have in the States! Just imagine what that means for the future...more data like that on this vid...if you are or have been a teacher this is very challenging info...most won't care...some will be amazed.

http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=fu324mhs2v

 

[Azmal]

oohhhh.... interesting

 

[Kevan]

Want to see what this country is capable of?
Have pro athletes and teachers swap salaries for a year.

 

[Prof]

Want to see what this country is capable of?
Have pro athletes and teachers swap salaries for a year.

$300 extra per tax payer in this country and we could elevate every K-12 teacher and sworn law enforcement officer to a starting salary of $120,000. We just have to want to do it.

 

[Azmal]

hmmm...... wonder what would happen when people start to choose those occupations solely for the money

 

[Hotrodmike]

One point made in this video...the top 25% of students in China equal more students than we have in the States! Just imagine what that means for the future...more data like that on this vid...if you are or have been a teacher this is very challenging info...most won't care...some will be amazed.

http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=fu324mhs2v

Roy
Thats why U and I dissagree on education . At this rate we will be a 3rd world country by the time it all shakes out . If I spend the time to learn I prefer to learn something others dont know not what grandpa was learnt.
Unless we drop the ego and arrogant idealism and take off the rose colored glasses we will finish last . We teach what was ,they teach what will be and education is something many talk the talk but they will not put the effort or the money to make it happen .The world is really one and eventually it will all blend together ,,,,yup uber rich on one side and the seirf's on the other . As for the way too big of gaps in educational moneies and sports thats just insane 1-2 mil a year to play or 29k a year to teach ,and this being Texas where sports are far more important than education it sucks !
Then you can get into the worth of this country ,,it looks good till you look at the GNP and National Dept . I hear every day we are becoming the information age ,great but how many times can you sell the same info,can you eat info ,will info keep you dry ,well I guess info helps but not very filling when your hungry .This is putting what once was an independant country soley dependant on other countries just to survive
Wait till China becomes our major food supplier now thats a hold on ya . Hell most of the US farmers have gone under and the CO-OP's will soon be under priced by China as soon as thier crops start to produce . Thier fruit crops are about a year out and they have enough volume to put ever farmer in the America's (yup even Mexico is scared ) out of business
Have A Kind Day
Mike

 

[Hotrodmike]

$300 extra per tax payer in this country and we could elevate every K-12 teacher and sworn law enforcement officer to a starting salary of $120,000. We just have to want to do it.

Well almost 40 years of paying school tax that would not be my favorite and would not pay the extra till other things are dealt with and you know this money would not end up where it should ,it never does . Too many chiefs and not enough good teachers . The good teachers should be rewarded and the poor ones fired .
Man you cant pay cops that much ,,,,,,,,you know how hard they would be to bribe making that much
Have A Kind Day
Mike

 

[Ram From Hell]

Too many chiefs and not enough good teachers . The good teachers should be rewarded and the poor ones fired .

True, and they are finding new ways to fire poor teachers (Well, poor in an educational capacity. Plenty starting wages are near poverty, especially if you factor in student loan payments.)

Did you know that currently my wife and her fellow teachers are required to spend about 1/3 of their teaching time either evaluating their students with meaningless tests (whose results are not realeased to teachers until the next year, by which time the results are useless), or preparing their students to take these tests. Why? Because failures of these test result in the federal governement witholding funding from these schools.

Now you know.