*Gasp* Paying teachers for everything they do? Their salaries are already a whopping $50,000!
You forgot the other half of the problem, namely, the fact that we're paying far too many teachers to do whatever the heck they do when we don't even need em.
California added 250,000 teachers from 1990 to 2008. No wonder they had and have massive budgetary issues!
And in that time the state population grew by over one fourth--almost 8 million people. That's just official census numbers. The actual numbers--including kids who need and deserve an education, no matter how much you may prefer they mow your lawn or pour your drinks for life--are obviously inflated by illegal immigration. Add to that the lager share young people are making up among the population nationwide, and, well, demographics kind of creates the demand, no?
Everytime Krazen posts he reinforces the argument for increasing investment in education.
