SENATE BILL: The Let Us Have More Teachers Act (Law'd)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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2. A Section 5 shall be added to F.L. 52-12 to read:

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Sponsor: shua

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Talk to me shua!

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

This was the problem we faced back when it was first enacted. The problem right now is that teachers come from the bottom of barrel in terms of college performance and quality has suffered. Of course a lot of that is also because pay is lower then Wall Street, law and many other professional professions. The goal was to move teaching in that kind of direction as a more professional job with higher quality teachers and of course much higher pay.

If there is another standard that or soemthing that allow us t increase the number of teachers whilst still boosting quality, I will consider it over the present law.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Is there a cap on the number of teachers allowed to apply/take the exam at present (the size of the 100% pie in this case)?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

So an amendment is necessary to fix the shall/should mistake? Is there anything else at this juncture?

Does no one have any ideas on how to boost quality whilst still providing teachers in sufficient numbers?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I am not sure how the issue interacts with this, but I do agree with the incoming President regarding the certification of professionals, though I have always desired they be retired or other wise experienced in said field as well first.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

So an amendment is necessary to fix the shall/should mistake? Is there anything else at this juncture?

Does no one have any ideas on how to boost quality whilst still providing teachers in sufficient numbers?

Well we have created this test already, and that's going to make a difference in teacher education. Whether for the good or bad I'm not sure, since so much depending on a single test could leave out a lot of development of soft skills.    Maybe there are hiring practices perhaps if we really want to take that away from the regions too, but I don't see any reason why we know what we are doing in this area any more than they do.

I would prefer not to take that step.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

So at this stage, what is left on this?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I am pretty sure that is an organization of teachers that composes the tests.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Reluctant Aye but we shall need to revisit this again soon to fix the other issues that were brought up.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I was watching a documetnary about the paratroopers in World War two and it talked about the weeding out effect of the training and the high percentage of people who volunteered but washed out because the couldn't make the cut. No one doubts the rigor of such training in relation to the task, but I doubt they wrote on a piece of paper X% will be denied, but rather the standards were raised to such an extent with the expectation that such a high proportion wouldn't make it through.

Of course there are numerous differences, most of all was motivation. Teaching requires sufficient passion and sufficient reward to push people to work through the difficulties. We need to weight also the number of teachers against the quality of such and just putting someone in a classroom isn't going to deliver the goods if they lack the skill to deliver and certainly the kids are no better off.