Where do you get a 14 student to teacher ratio? Or 18,000 per pupil. Could you cite your sources. Also, where is the avg.55,000 salary? Does that include private school salaries which are usually higher?
Where I teach in Idaho, I am getting 30,000 for an average of 24 students for each class period. I don't know how much the school gets paid per student, but that's a significantly different ratio.
Poverty is a cultural issue, not just a monetary issue. If millionaires gave away money, those in poverty may improve, or they might just wind up with more stuff, and the same low-opinion or behavior toward education. Not that I'm saying all people are in poverty because they choose to, but the attitude against education or motivation is not directly tied to the amount of money a person has.
It's a causality issue (not to be read as casualty). Are they struggling with attitudes toward education and performance because they have no money, or is some of their poverty the result of a lack of caring about education being passed on. Or is it neither.
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Where do you get a 14 student to teacher ratio? Or 18,000 per pupil. Could you cite your sources. Also, where is the avg.55,000 salary? Does that include private school salaries which are usually higher? Where I teach in Idaho, I am getting 30,000 for an average of 24 students for each class period. I don't know how much the school gets paid per student, but that's a significantly different ratio.
Poverty is a cultural issue, not just a monetary issue. If millionaires gave away money, those in poverty may improve, or they might just wind up with more stuff, and the same low-opinion or behavior toward education. Not that I'm saying all people are in poverty because they choose to, but the attitude against education or motivation is not directly tied to the amount of money a person has. It's a causality issue (not to be read as casualty). Are they struggling with attitudes toward education and performance because they have no money, or is some of their poverty the result of a lack of caring about education being passed on. Or is it neither.