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<p>Yes, I do. An additional $10,000 per year is a significant amount of money, especially for teachers. I did not state that the results would take place automatically. I do believe that as time progressed though, those results would occur.</p>
<p>Would you mind if we weren’t exactly a global power (or policeman), especially in terms of military (but also economically speaking)? If we were not THE #1, America is the best, and all?</p>
<p>What do you think about the statement that someone wrote, saying that the “war on drugs has turned into a war on the lower-class” (that is not verbatim, but close enough.)?</p>
<p>^^Yes, hopefully. But why would it reverse it? I don’t see that necessarily happening. Hopefully those schools can get better without hurting any school (no reason for that to even happen actually). I am starting to confuse myself now…</p>
<p>I suppose that with the increase of housing prices, less individuals would be enabled to afford the costs, thus limiting solely the wealthy access to those schools. Perhaps that’s too broad of a generalization though.</p>
<p>^Yeah, there are a ton of variables in all this.</p>
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<p>I am 100% all for not being the global policeman. I think it is disgusting and hypocritical that that is our role right now. </p>
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<p>I agree with it 100%. The war on drugs is really a war on the undesirables. It is a class and “race” war. When’s the last time you say a blue-eyed blonde women from a well-to-do suburb get dragged off by the police for enjoying a blunt?</p>
<p>^Yeah, I think my questions perhaps made my view obvious, but I agree. And the second quote is said my someone I really like…basically the war on drugs is such bs (not that this is a bold, new, grand statement or anything).</p>
<p>One of the biggest problems is the gap in the priority education gets. In some places, education is essentially an afterthought. Kids aren’t expected to achieve a lot in school, so they don’t. The two things that really need to be done to improve education are to make sure every family understands the importance of education and that succeeding is always possible, and teaching kids proper study habits and the idea that success will come only through focused work.</p>
<p>^The family issue…I feel like that is so hard to solve. Luckily, I have parents who very much value education…but if a parent doesn’t, how can one convince them? I just feel like that’s a very, very hard problem to solve. And all this nonsense about being “not cool” for reading books isn’t helping either.</p>
<p>Right. Freaking expectations. If you tell–whether directly or indirectly–that kids won’t succeed, that matters. It all matters. Like…at my school, you are expected to go to a 4 year university. The question isn’t, “what are you doing after high school?,” it’s, “where are you going to college?” And with those expectations, along with other advantages, 99% go…I mean, it’s just expected, it’s not even thought that someone will do something else. People are <em>shocked</em> when someone goes to CC, and $hit, back in 9th grade, I was surprised to learn that only 25% (roughly) of US are college graduates…I was so naive (and probably still am in some ways). Ugh, I hope this paragraph doesn’t make me sound arrogant or thinking of myself as superior or stupid…The thing is, one can’t help where they are born, and all kids deserve a great education, and if there is something I can do to bring that about, I’ll try. I don’t know exactly what I can do on a more systemic level, but in college (after this summer), I plan to get WAY more involved.</p>
<p>I think that one issue that needs to be addressed is classroom safety. The majority of students inhabiting dangerous city areas are those who attend poor schools. If school districts could establish safety accommodations and safe learning environments, then perhaps more students would feel compelled to attend school and attribute effort towards acquiring an education. It would also be beneficial if schools could implement activities affiliated with the schools that take place after school hours. That would likely minimize students’ susceptibility to gang violence.</p>
<p>Honestly, the dropout rates in some school districts is so depressing.</p>
<p>This is a chart of the drop-out rates from the 50 largest school districts in the US, from 2006. [USATODAY.com</a> - Big-city schools struggle with graduation rates](<a href=“http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2006-06-20-dropout-rates_x.htm]USATODAY.com”>http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2006-06-20-dropout-rates_x.htm)</p>
<p>The split between suburbs-cities is pretty huge (I guess rural districts aren’t as large, and I honestly don’t know anything about the dropout rates there, but am aware that many rural areas are plagued with a different set of problems that cities have, but problems nonetheless…and not saying suburbs are perfect either! And obviously there are good and bad good schools within districts and among different areas and so on, so some of my statements are big generalizations.)</p>
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<p>It was a scene that didn’t make the cut in the movie that was in the dvd special features. It was what happened right before the tack-on-the-chair incident.</p>
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<p>Since I’m considering teaching as a career, I hope you get elected. I could live like a king on 100k a year :D. Or 70k for that matter.</p>
<p>^Or, for that matter, be indepenently wealthy by the time I was 40.</p>
<p>^^ You can’t live like a king on 100k a year.</p>
<p>^ Especially in a city.</p>
<p>^^ My large family lives fairly well on way less than that.</p>
<p>^ Yes but you live in your own words “in the sticks” cost of living and stuff is far higher in say NYC</p>
<p>^ True enough. I still think 100k should be more than enough for most families.</p>
<p>^ I never said it wouldn’t be.
I said you wouldn’t live like a king.
Plus taxes would take that down to something like 60k (depending on where you live). For a family, that’s not a ton.</p>