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To: JohnM who wrote (2227)	6/16/2003 9:40:00 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) of 793903

The key is good teachers, not class size, and I think this goes a long way toward proving it. At least you may not throw "smaller classes" in my face everytime we post about education. The Stuyvesant High School article shows how the dead hand of Union work rules kills the ability to hire and motivate good teachers. NYC is one of the worst, but I think all big city unions are so strong that this is true with all of them. What you need to teach is a College Degree in what you are teaching. With a "How to teach," one or two semester class, thrown in. The rest is OJT, IMO. The "Teacher's Certificate" is malarky. Just "make work" classes that feed a lot of Education PHDs at the College level. Paying extra money for K-12 Teachers to get a advanced degree is another real piece of codpockery. If they want it for their own benefit, fine. It is not needed to teach at that level. Pay the Teachers extra money for extra classroom results. Pay them to spend extra time at the schools working with the kids. Don't pay them for these bullshit courses they take to get extra bucks. My wife did it. And so does every teacher I know.

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