Wisconsin Teachers

Hi Humans,
Hooray for the Wisconsin teachers. Considering the time spent in getting educated and correcting homework, not to mention the administrative stuff of questionable value that teachers have to endure, the salary is not so big. So, government makes up for the low salary with generous benefits up to now. Now, some people think that teachers are getting away with something. Well it is true that the money is scarce, but why not conserve with less testing. Over testing takes time away from teaching. Also, how about less unnecessary statistics keeping. Statistics are mainly for people high up in any organization who don't really know what is going on at the ground level, so they insist on rigorous statistics to fool themseves into believing that they have their fingers on the pulse. But someone has to waste valuable time in recording those numbers.
Either raise teacher salaries or keep the benefits. Otherwise, people will not want to go into teaching, and government will have to spend money to entice people into teaching anyway.
But what do I know? I'm just a dog.
Chloe

Teachers and Taxes

Hi Humans,
There are many humans who want the best education for their children, but also insist on keeping taxes low, even if it means cutting funds to education. Right now with the bad economy, public schools can keep teachers in spite of low wages, reducing benefits, and increasingly difficult work conditions because there are limited alternatives. But when the economy improves and other occupations open up to draw away those teachers, what will happen? Will the public accept further decline of the educational system? Or will they be willing to divert money from other areas to education? Or will they actually accept more taxes?
Chloe