Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

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Three major problems in the public schools:

1. Teacher's wages are negotiated based on education and longevity. Want a $8000 a year raise? Go to school for a couple of summers and get a master's degree. It doesn't even have to be related to what you are teaching. And after you've been there for 30 years getting longevity raises, your pay is 2-3x that of a fresh college grad for the same job. The idiots running the schools think the answer is to give the 30 year teacher a huge bonus and put him on full pension at 52 years of age to replace him with the cheap 22 year old.

2. Which brings me to the next problem, the idiots running the schools. Too many bureaucrats with too little brains, or too little inclination to use them. As a friend of mine who began teaching in the early 1960's said, there are three kinds of school workers. Educators, laborers (custodians and the like) and bureaucrats. If you get a hold of a 1960 school budget and compare it to a modern one, you will see that the % of funds going to administration/bureaucracy salaries has gone up by a large multiple.

3. The education itself has moved from teaching skills to social/political indoctrination. We're not helping young minds to grow, we're indoctrinating proper servants/slaves to government.