*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!
we dn't ned no edjucayshun or nothn. speculy no redin or wrtng learng.
Not in California, no. The state is near the bottom of education rankings, along with Washington DC.
Yeah, no. They're around 35th by SAT scores, which may be below average but it isn't "near the bottom" (that is reserved for Mississippi).
And you mean the same Washington D.C. where Michelle Rhee came in and destroyed teacher tenure and such (all against the wishes of the teacher's union)? That one? You're sure that's the D.C. you meant? Cause if I was going to cite D.C. as an example, I'd use it to show how trying to smash teacher's unions backfires and causes schools to fail...
