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Originally Posted by Tom
It just cheap political pandering without a shred of connection to reality.
Hiring teachers is the responsibility of local governments, not the Fed.
Stop forcing unfunded liberal mandates on them and they would be able to afford to do it.
Throwing money and teachers at the problem is not the answer.
Hiring people like Jean-Claude Brizard in Chicago, after he proved himself a total failure in Rochester is the problem.
As long a liberal run school systems, we will see high failure and drop out rates, just as been the case for decades.
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This concept of hiring 100,000 M&S teachers is a ruse, a distraction from the reality of the situation at hand, which is lack of a strong family unit. There are way too many single parent homes.
These kids in the public sector are coming to school ill prepared for the discipline that is needed to succeed as a student. Lack of discipline is a trademark of single parent homes in many cases.
There is an elementary school within 200 yards of my home. School kids walk up and down my street twice daily. No one is carrying books or has a backpack. therefore I cannot see how there can be any homework assignments.
Homework, in my opinion, is necessary to teach responsibility to students.
How does hiring more M&S teachers overcome this?
This plan is more of the gov't throwing money at a problem while turning a blind eye to the real issue of irresponsibility, i.e. children born out of wedlock. Children starting from behind because of poor decision making by the "father" and mother.
The sad part is that there is no easy answer to the situation of diminishing graduation rates and the subsequent problem of marketable skills in the real world, as in workplace.
On a sidenote:
In his State of the Union address last month, President Obama spoke about the importance of kids staying in school and even urged states to raise the dropout age to 18. So it's passing strange that his new $3.8 trillion budget provides no new money for a school voucher program in Washington, D.C., that is producing significantly higher graduation rates than the D.C. public school average.
The link:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...975405900.html
