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speak easy

(9,252 posts) Tue Jul 5, 2022, 09:08 AM Jul 2022

lotsa children left behind

I believe that teachers teach our future. Pay Them More.

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lotsa children left behind (Original Post) speak easy Jul 2022 OP

Is this problem getting worse or better? Johnny2X2X Jul 2022 #1

I agree that teachers need to well compensated and supplied, brer cat Jul 2022 #2

that was Not my intention speak easy Jul 2022 #3

I didn't think it would be; just the placement of two brer cat Jul 2022 #4

Johnny2X2X

(19,066 posts)

1. Is this problem getting worse or better?

Reply to speak easy (Original post)

Tue Jul 5, 2022, 09:16 AM

Jul 2022

Our education system as a whole is worrisome, we're not producing the mathematicians and scientists that our economy is going to need to keep up. But I thought basic literacy was getting better in the US.

brer cat

(24,565 posts)

2. I agree that teachers need to well compensated and supplied,

Reply to speak easy (Original post)

Tue Jul 5, 2022, 09:27 AM

Jul 2022

but this sounds like blaming the teachers for illiteracy. Maybe I'm reading it wrong.

speak easy

(9,252 posts)

3. that was Not my intention

Reply to brer cat (Reply #2)

Tue Jul 5, 2022, 12:24 PM

Jul 2022

... it is a mental cut and paste from all the phony support for teachers which vanishes in the real world the instant it comes to money. I support teaches including (a lot) better pay.

brer cat

(24,565 posts)

4. I didn't think it would be; just the placement of two

Reply to speak easy (Reply #3)

Tue Jul 5, 2022, 02:46 PM

Jul 2022

facts: teachers need higher pay and we have higher illiteracy, no correlation between the two.

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