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If the money was put into paying teachers adequately then people would go into teaching rather than into law

Collective • Contribution by Leonard Bernstein

I would like to make the observation that whatever is decided re content that in order to achieve the education goals, it will not happen without quality teachers and quality people will be attracted to teaching if they are paid adequately.

Here in the USA, the lowest college grade levels go into teaching and that shows in our terrible education system. I assume the same is true in T&T.

Bush's " no (read every) child left behind act" is mostly a failure and is seen by many here as a deliberate effort by the Bushies to destroy our public education system in order to put it into private and religious hands via vouchers for charter and religious schools.

Recent analyses of charter school results have shown them to be mostly failures. The religious schools do better but only by comparison because they do not take the worst performing students.

If the money was put into paying teachers adequately then people would go into teaching rather than into law. We have too many lawyers and their abilities would be better used in teaching.

See Contribution : Denis Solomon • Veronica Collens • Philip Fortune • Shane Collens • Leonard Bernstein

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