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Originally Posted by wizwor
May be better to replace the word teachers with educators. Note that the only critiques of individual instructors were positive (Rime and Poe).
None of what you said makes me feel better about anything. Educators regurgitate the same crap they learned in school. It was crap when they learned it and it is crap as they teach it.
If you want kids to read more, you have to engage them. Reciting fourteen lines out of a sonnet you do not understand does not do that. Neither does reading a two page sentence.
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Lots of unemployed or underemployed teachers out there who would love to teach creatively. Smaller classes, more teachers, and above all more room to house the classrooms would be very expensive. I read somewhere that to build schools that had ideal class sizes, especially in urban areas where property is expensive would cost each taxpayer several thousand a year.
The cost would go down once the property was purchased and the schools were built, but would still be quite a bit higher mil rate for education.
Kind of damned if you do and damned if you don't
Helen