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Originally Posted by SilkMoneyLove
As a Wisconsin Parent, (tax payer and have a kid starting school in September) I can tell you I have an easy answer to this problem.
Give the teachers a raise, hold a certain amount of their pay as performance based and make the school year round (like a real job), with trimesters. If the kids are learning all year long, they have a better chance of getting better grades and getting the info to sink in. Also, parents would not have to pay for summer camps and other BS because our school system thinks everyone lives on a farm and needs to do summer farm work BS. How to pay for it? My taxes will go up. Guess what? They will anyway, at least this way everyone involved would get something out of it.
I can count all of the "great" teachers I had on one hand, the rest of them could have been replaced by robots. Besides, teaching was one of those "noble" professions that weren't supposed to make much money.
When I was a pizza guy, I didn't tell the owner to pay me $40 an hour or else me and all the other pizza makers would strike/call in sick. I took the job while I needed it until I found something better. If teachers don't like their deal, they are free to move on to a real job. One with a retirement account that you have to fund yourself and pay for your own healthcare, because that is how it is in the real world.
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I have a better solution for you. Homeschool.
Like I said before. Read the .pdf file.
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/pdf/main2009/2010458.pdf
Scroll down to page 34 and compare WI to other states. WI tied or beat 34 other states at 8th grade reading. Furthermore, the reading scores increased for a number of states while no states showed a decline. Additinal research would show that WI consistently posts some of the highest ACT scores in the nation and has had a 90% graduation rate for the past couple decades.
I don't know what kind of problem everyone has with WI teachers. Seems like everyone is jumping on the bandwagon and picking on them because some politician decided to make this an issue. Prior to this union busting move by the governor there was hardly a whisper about WI teachers in the news.