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To: SilentZ who wrote (244665)	8/3/2005 11:48:21 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572580

Market dynamics aren't going to increase school budgets. Teachers get paid a certain amount because the school districts can't pay them anymore. Any idea out of the public school k-12 budgets, what % is teacher/adminstrator salary? I've always thought it would be good to have teachers get paid tremendous salaries (whatever that might be), but also have something like 20% get fired every year. Something to encourage the more of our brightest to want to be teachers (high pay), and also a weeding out process to get rid of the so so teachers, sort of similar to what they do at law firms by getting rid of marginal lawyers every year. Of course, you gotta come up with the money from somewhere to have the pay increases....

To: SilentZ who wrote (244665)	8/3/2005 1:33:54 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572580

Z, Market dynamics aren't going to increase school budgets. They will if the voters vote for it. Personally, I'd rather have local governments spend more money on working teachers than on pension programs that benefit only the entrenched. Tenchusatsu

To: SilentZ who wrote (244665)	8/3/2005 2:12:40 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572580

You say that now, but wait until there is a shortage of teachers. Communities will be up in arms, which will force states to allocate more funding for teacher salaries to hire more. Then when it becomes evident that there simply aren't enough teachers that want to work for such low pay, then they will raise what they offer. It's all market dynamics. The key is to keep the standards high for teachers to create a distinction between good and bad ones, and to make it easy to fire a bad one, just like in the corporate world.