The issues that face the Nation

[Benton]

(10-25-2016, 02:38 PM)bfine32 Wrote:  
An issue I feel that has been neglected is education, not the cost, but the quality.

I agree.

Two thoughts on that. The first, you get what you pay for. If we continue to pay teachers as cheap as possible, we're going to continue to be competing jobs in that pay area for labor. You can go to 5-6 years of school, amass six figure students loans and get into a profession where you have to deal with constant red tape and parents, while paying about as much as if you don't go to school and enter a low skill trade. A lot of that comes from how we allocate funding.

Second, it's getting better. There are some pretty interesting approaches  taking place. Wisconsin has districts doing some pretty cool things. Unfortunately, it seems like whenever there's a step in the right direction on a national level, it stalls.