Quote:LOL, a list of books you don't like?  A list that you cannot even provide a curriculum on as to why they would be used?  Please.

 

Also, it's nice that you pull an outlier to make your case.  I'll give you what the norm looks like all through-out the country right there in your back yard...

 

TALLAHASSEE – Florida Education Association President Andy Ford said he was encouraged by Gov. Rick Scott’s proposal for a pay increase for teachers, but said it was important to get a full picture of the salary situation for Florida’s school employees.

“A $2,500 increase in pay would certainly be welcome, but it’s important to put it in its proper context,” Ford said. “Teachers and other school workers lost 3 percent of their salary in 2011 and saw another 2 percent disappear when Social Security and Medicare tax breaks expired earlier this month. But this is a step in the right direction because investing in public schools and the people who work in them is the way to create the workforce of the future.”  https://feaweb.org/gov-scott-wants-to-gi...-pay-raise

 

Books that are "middle school" books.  Is that really appropriate?

 

I'm all for increasing pay for teachers, don't get me wrong.  Being a former instructor (although it wasn't kids) showed me how hard the job is.  However, the unions are being unrealistic as far as the value of the position.  They talk about pay all of the time, but fail to say anything at all about the other benefits (which is part of computing salary).  The thing is, teachers are not held accountable for the results of their work, and unions seek to protect that.

 

Kids these days are taught "the answer" rather than "how to come up with the answer".

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