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Originally Posted by JMintzer
I never said our system is efficient. They waste money with the best of them. They SHOULD be paying their teachers more, as well.
It's just that they don't waste money on the epic scale that other places do...
If spending more money was the answer, those areas spending 3 X's as much should have much better results, right?
Oh, and much of their success comes from parental involvement...
I remember one "Back to School Night". A new teacher walked into his "standing room only classroom, thinking many of us were in the wrong room. When he was assured we were all in the right place, he commented that he had never had that many people over the entire night as he did in his first period class...
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School quality and teacher salaries are PURPOSELY kept down by low property taxes (which benefits people that have high property values. The people passing the property taxes are defending themselves against paying a high tax bill. Some call that the "fox guarding the henhouse"