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You have to give them credit for it. It's better to promise to solve an imaginary problem than a real one. If you promise to solve a real problem then you actually have to do it, which is difficult and may not work.
But what about the pink-haired communist teachers? Surly they are a real threat to the children. Think of the children!
You mean like this dude?
Sounds like a good way to encourage mass retirements and resignations. There already isn’t much incentive to become a teacher with extra education and low starting pay. Good luck recruiting.
I believe the entire point for Trump is why spend money on education when we could use the extra cash buying his golden tennis shoes.
Or, perhaps much of the education spending is going towards teacher's salaries. American teachers are some of the highest paid educators in the world. Regardless, students are graduating high-school and are unable to read their diploma. The fact is that private school is far superior than anything the public schools can offer. Which is why politicians put their own children in private schools. That is a problem.
That is just not true. Why say something that isn't true, then blame teachers for something the kids are responsible for learning. You can lead a horse to water....
www.wboi.org
In absolute dollar values, they're definitely up there. However, salaries tend to be higher overall in the US because we have fewer social benefits. Relative to similarly-educated workers in other fields, American teachers are underpaid compared to other first-world countries:
www.brookings.edu
That's an overly broad generalization - there are good public schools and inferior private schools. Regardless, I don't see how Trump's plan fixes the problem. Private schools tend to perform better because they can be selective about the students that they accept, and they generally have smaller class sizes, which gives teachers more time to work with students individually. Nothing that Trump has proposed addresses those issues as they relate to public schools - in fact, his plan will likely make the problem worse
It depends on what you see as a problem.In absolute dollar values, they're definitely up there. However, salaries tend to be higher overall in the US because we have fewer social benefits. Relative to similarly-educated workers in other fields, American teachers are underpaid compared to other first-world countries:
Teacher pay around the world | Brookings
Just how underpaid are American teachers? Dick Startz shows that teacher salaries are not only low compared to other similarly educated American workers, but also much lower relatively than those of teachers in other industrialized nations. Increasing teacher salaries would not solve all issues...
And that's before accounting for the workload.
That's an overly broad generalization - there are good public schools and inferior private schools. Regardless, I don't see how Trump's plan fixes the problem. Private schools tend to perform better because they can be selective about the students that they accept, and they generally have smaller class sizes, which gives teachers more time to work with students individually. Nothing that Trump has proposed addresses those issues as they relate to public schools - in fact, his plan will likely make the problem worse
