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To: Elroy who wrote (244666)	8/3/2005 2:03:11 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572605

>Any idea out of the public school k-12 budgets, what % is teacher/adminstrator salary? Not a clue. Probably varies significantly by municipality. >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. Yeah... I'm not sure if you need to get rid of a certain number; you just need to set standards that don't seem arbitrary and provide the teachers with the tools they need to get there (teachers should not have to buy their own school supplies), while adjusting for some factors that are out of teachers' hands. Once reasonable standards are in place, then you fire people based on them. >Of course, you gotta come up with the money from somewhere to have the pay increases.... Yup. -Z