Re: Global warming and your garden

MajorOz <MajorOz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> Kinda shoots the argument that paying teachers more would
> result in better education.

 it might. if the choice is between teaching, with a salery of 
$40k/year (knowing that you have to supply your own classroom 
with pencils, paper, chalk, hankies, hand cleaner, 
supplemental reading books etc *and* pay off that student loan 
for the required Master's degree) and a private sector job 
that pays $75K+ per year, which would you choose?

> Actually, the reason private / religious schools produce
> better products is that they are allowed to exact
> discipline. 

 well, more or less. a private or religious school can throw 
out any student that they choose, so they can pick only 
willing, non-disabled students. public schools can't do that, 
and frequently public school teachers have kids with learning 
disabilities, ESL or numerous other issues that take what 
little teaching time they have after the bureaucratic 
paperwork... it's a lose/lose game.

lee <my dad thought i should be a teacher. ew!>
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