Don't most Americans want our schools to be good? Or does America want our schools to fail? Just wanting schools to be good does not make them so.
I guess its kind of impossible for our schools to be good when our government and the teachers unions have other agendas, then to educate our children with what they need to know to be successful. Obviously holding tax payers hostage to ever increasing teachers salaries, and just throwing money at education has not worked. So maybe we should try something else, like throwing some good ole common sense toward education.
Its the same old drum beat all the time. "we need higher teacher salaries for our schools to be successful" Think it might be time to try something else, than to keep raising taxes so teachers can have more and more goodies, and unions can funnel more and more money to bureaucrats, while our education system continues to fail?
Getting rid of the NEA would be a good start, so school districts could keep the good teachers, and get rid of the chaff. Along with the unions leaving so would tenure. No more teacher jobs being guaranteed. Teachers would actually have to prove themselves worthy to keep their job. You know kind of like how all private sector business is run. Getting rid of Washington bureaucrats dictating how and what our children are taught would be a good idea also. Washington Bureaucrats can ruin anything, and they have done a great job destroying our education, which in turn helps to destroy a nation. Especially a Constitutional Republic.
