My mother has been a teacher for 20+ years and is retiring this year.

Here's a few items that go along with their salary:
Tenure
Excellent benefits
Pension
Job satisfaction
3 months off a year

In addition they can affect an increase in their own pay scale by taking educational classes during their off time.

Private schools produce better results and the teachers are paid less than in public schools.

The US now spends more money on education than on any other single bugetary item. The problem seems to be in the allocation.




>Hi Dale,
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>Seems most of what I read on education in the U.S. is negative. It's been sliding here too.
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>But it is only infrequently that we hear how poorly teachers there are paid, generally. It seems to me that poor pay results in poor incentive, both to attract good people into the field (and especially to have them stay) and for teachers to go any 'extra mile'.
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>FYI, blowing $$$ on buildings happens here too. The administrators seem to take care of themselves.
>But here it isn't limited to schools. I attend a hospital regularly and they've just finished replacing 3 perfectly serviceable buildings with 3 spanking new ones. Even thougth the problem, for the last 10+ years, has been TIMELY ACCESS to certain medical services!
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>cheers
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>>>>>Unfortunately in muslim world sultan's and fake republics rules people. They don't want educated people.
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>>>>Metin,
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>>>>I think the above statement says it all, not just in the muslim world, but all countries that have high illiteracy rates.
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>>>>Dale
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>>>I think so like you. But I can't say that anymore. Because people in west like see muslims as illiteraced people, if you say that them they beginning become angry.
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>>>I think so west people educated but same time illiteraced.
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>>Yes, I've seen this for many years. People have been graduating from High Schools even though they don't have basic reading and math skills. Lacking these skills, of course, affects other subjects, such as science, history, social studies, etc.
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>>The "no child left behind act" was supposed to fix this, but in most cases it is a sham.
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>>Many people want to fix the problems by spending more money on new buildings rather than looking at and fixing the basic process of teaching.
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>>The uneducated will believe just about anything they're told, by someone they see as an authority.
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>>Years ago, I spent time in Libya and Lebanon. One time I was almost attacked because I was going to take a picture of a little boy.....