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To: TigerPaw who wrote (149337)	5/29/2001 1:50:00 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 769670

So why haven't the States implemented it? After all, the Feds don't have anything to do with education, save extorting the States with the funding carrot. Besides, colleges have bumper crops of teachers, at least all the colleges I've attended or friends and relatives have attended. In Pennsylvania at least, teachers get a guaranteed yearly pay raise. Former teachers or administrators dominating the school boards, you know. In Central PA, there was a virtual tax revolt in the early 90's, because of yearly property tax and local income tax increases to fund teacher's raises. Not desirable? What's not desirable about a job where you get a nearly guaranteed pay raise yearly (at taxpayer expense) and three months vacation a year? As to retaining teachers, its been my experience that the real problem isn't retaining teachers (except Im sure in the ghetto where no one wants to work and where, in Houston, they have to hire on teachers before they've even gotten their certification just to staff the ghetto schools), but rather getting rid of horrible teachers. Once they're in, and have tenure, its too expensive to buy out their contract, so they stay. That and the teachers and the administrators are buddies, and stick together. Again, that's been my experience, others' mileage may vary. Derek