Remove the tin foil and WISE UP, GOP!

[Chatteress]

Originally Posted by CaptainNJ

because it doesnt.

What ideas do you have to improve public transportation? Not everyone can drive or afford a car. Should we just not work and collect welfare benefits? Also, if it weren't for public transportation, we would have more traffic-clogged roads as everyone would be driving in to work instead of using public transportation.

[Chatteress]

Originally Posted by compJockey

Prestige and money.

Doctors, Lawyers, Sports, Actor seem to be the most rewarding careers.
And in my experience, after elementary school sports was pushed more than academics.

I've never heard "I want to be a mathematician when I grow up", for example. Be nice if there was good reason (salary, prestige) - or at least a more visible reason to be a mathematician.

Or teachers - I have several teacher friends. That was their fall-back career choice. My guess is that by increasing the rewards for being a teacher will encourage more competition and hopefully the worst will be discarded and the best teach our children.

If more of the academic career choices were seen as more rewarding I bet we'd be better off for it as more people pursue those careers.

There is no correlation over what a teacher earns and how effective their teaching skills are. Private school teachers do not earn nearly what a public school teacher earns, yet private schooled kids continually outperform public school kids.

Here's an interesting article that was posted in the LA Times recently (which is not a conservative paper btw)

Firing tenured teachers can be a costly and tortuous task - Los Angeles Times

[compJockey]

Originally Posted by msconnie73

There is no correlation over what a teacher earns and how effective their teaching skills are. Private school teachers do not earn nearly what a public school teacher earns, yet private schooled kids continually outperform public school kids.

I imagine that if teaching was known to comfortably support a family, and had more prestige more people would want to become teachers.

Of course if you take a bad teacher and give them more money they won't become better teachers. But if the pool of teaching talent isn't good enough, then that talent pool should be expanded.