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To: Elroy who wrote (67524)	4/11/2005 10:36:32 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

LOL. I'd be all for an increase in property taxes to fund $60K salaries for teachers. My kids would be direct beneficiaries of the increased quality of teachers that would result. But it would have to be backed by a serious effort to grade teachers and pay for performance with no guaranteed contracts nor teachers unions. If we were to pay that much, we'd have to be able to fire the crappy teachers. Nowadays, it's hard to get a teacher fired for gross incompetence. It's much easier to get them fired for things like corporal punishment. Hell, if more kids got smacked around for cutting up in class, we'd have better students. I remember the priests who taught me. They didn't put up with any cutting up at all and parents didn't get ticked off when their kids got smacked for being bad either. That's the problem with public schools. They are incubators for misguided public policy, not incubators for well-behaved, productive adults.