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You get what you pay for.
Everyone knows nothing will be done, and if a parent complains, their child will be picked on. There is no such thing as confidentiality and students are discussed in front of other parents and students.
It is more of a surprise that they didn't come last in the list.
Some of these "professionals" are destroying the future of our children for an easy ride and know nothing will be done about it.
Does this mean that our current teachers are below average and if we raise teacher salaries, we can replace current teachers with better ones, or does it mean that if we give our current teachers more money they will start to care about the kids more?
The trick seems to be shuffling the criteria as 50 independent measurements--and then start banging the statistical drum on the data that looks the worst for each state.
If NY funds $9,500 per student, then note that as a percentage of per-capita income, NY is one of the worst in the nation�the answer to the problem: send more money.
If UT funds $7,300 per student, then forget per-capita income and state that its one of the lowest in nation for funding per student�the answer to the problem: send more money.
Over the last 30 years, I've lived or spent significant time in 20 of the 50 states. Consistently, local education, irrespect of where, is harangued as under-funded and poorly compared to the �national average.�
NEA, please tell us which state, in your opinion and grading system, has been given a passing grade? New-math aside: if everyone fails...how is are the "averages" constructed?
So, December, 2007 I wrote to the Utah Foundation with the subject: "Proposal for a Discussion Forum to Improve Utah's Educational System".
It contained the following areas:
Introduction,
Sponsor,
Support Personnel to:
Set up the forum.
Volunteers to sort and process comments.
Moderator
Panel to include the Governor, and educational specialist from his office,
Two Senators and two state congressmen,
President of the State Board of Education and the Superintendent of Schools.
Public advertising newspaper, etc. to lay out format for the questions that the public wants answered.
How to select attendees.
Guess what, not even an answer from the foundation.
My question is to the others that have commented on the educational system on this blog and other blogs, "What have you done besides complain?"