Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
How can people expect to get better qualified personnel if they're not prepared to pay for it? How can people believe that lowering pay will keep the best and make the worst leave, instead of the other way around?

But it's not all bad over there ACIN, here's a really good article I used in the last paper I wrote:

http://teachers.net/gazette/wordpres...-from-day-one/

Btw, this "overpaid slob" is sitting alone on a saturday night working on school papers... With no extra pay of any kind, of course.
The goal for conservatives is in deconstructing the state's hold over their children, including the "brainwashing" education system. The goal of lowering wages is to make sure the teachers are terrible so the kids don't learn. That way the parent's beliefs are held and not challenged. Of course it is covered up under the guise of fiscal responsibility.

And yes, it really isn't all that bad. Like I said, we are not completely ass-backwards. But we are rapidly falling behind. Even in your own article you have shown the last paragraph says this:

Connecting with every student every day is impossible. Connecting with some students every day is not. Using this simply exercise, whether it’s the beginning of the year or halfway through your year, will help give you the tools you need to make those meaningful connections with your students. Those connections will help you differentiate your instruction, which in turn increases your effectiveness as a teacher.

This exercise and tool for helping students continues to get less effective as classroom sizes increase dramatically. Overcrowding is one of many problems facing the education system and this tool essentially becomes pointless when you start to have 40-45 kids a class with 5 classes a day. My classes were all in the ~35 student range, with increases to 47 being discussed.