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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (561068)	4/15/2010 6:20:28 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578242

I think they have it backwards. They pay the teachers more that go into the bad schools and help those students. Why is that backwards? OTOH, see merit pay has caused some teachers to cheat for the student (change grades, give out the answers before the test etc.) in order to get their grades up. When money is involved...you know what happens. Jim, we've gone over this before......I am not as cynical as you are.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (561068)	4/15/2010 7:41:07 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578242

I see most of the problems of education as being economic problems of current life, not problems in the schools. When I was in grade school, my mom was at home raising me. She participated in my schooling. Dad brought home the bacon. That isn't really possible today, except for the wealthy. If we want schools to take up the missing parenting, we need to figure out how to do it. Teaching and parenting shouldn't be crammed into the same class/hour. Especially when you're "parenting" 30+ kids in public with no real authority and lawsuits looming. How can it be? My mom was a teacher after raising us kids, so, I know whereof I speak.