Out of Bounds Q: What would be your solution for Mississippi's (state) problem

[bonedaddy401]

You get off work hours before most people do, you get substantial time off aroundChristmas, fall break, spring break and then the whole damn summer off. Not every teacher is Glenn Holland, Joe Clark, Sean McGuire or Miss Lippy.<div>
</div><div>While undervalued they may be I don't think paying teachers more money will automatically make kids smarter. Considering the time off they get alone its a pretty good gig if you can live within what it provides.</div>

 

[NashvilleBulldawg]

You can't fix stupid or lazy. And unfortunately those are the people reproducing at rabbit-like rates. When you have politicians focusing on fabricated racial issues instead of fixing issues like the Ed system ( vis-a-vis the Ayers case), the state will never get anywhere. Higher taxes won't fix it either; how are the car tags, state income tax, et al being used today??? I thought the casinahs were going to make better schools. Money isn't the problem. Terrible parents, teachers unions, and terrible teachers are the problem. Kids want to learn up to an age. Then they're lost.

 

[thatsbaseball]

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[NashvilleBulldawg]

Where this "separation of church and state" is mentioned? For the record, I agree the alcohol law sucks, but your blanket comment saying it's the fault of religious people is indeed ignorant. There are plenty of antiquated laws on the books in every state, not just MS. Ironic we're having this discussion in an "education" thread...

 

[ckDOG]

It's definitely a chicken/egg argument, but many of the great ideas to better the education process are fruitless because of the situations at home. Children put behind the 8-ball (i.e. raised by single mom who has no time, or doesn't care, to help educate their child) are much more likely to fall behind, become discouraged, and drop out.

 

[esplanade91]

...if you think teachers put in less hours than most folks working a straight job, then you've never been around many teachers.

Or else you think 7-4:30 with no lunch hour is what most folks are pulling.

That can be said about all white collar jobs. How many of you go to work and get paid 40 or so hours a week but spend hours at home doing stuff for work? I was a clerk at a law firm once and the young straight out of college kid got paid close to a teacher's salary and when he got done at the end of the day he went home and read countless files. How is that any different?

 

[dawgstudent]

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[seshomoru]

Yeah, follow a good teacher around for a year and see how cush those hours are.

Look at it this way. If you go an hour long massage. You are payingquadruple per hour whata first year teacherin Mississippi gets paid to eductate your child. It's not so bad, though. After 35 years of teaching, they'll be making just shy of half the hourly wage of a massage therapist.</p>