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Hey, here's a great idea. Let's cut maybe a tenth of the military budget and put it towards K-12 teacher's salaries. I hear the median income in the military i
by iko371 16y ago
Hey, here's a great idea. Let's cut maybe a tenth of the military budget and put it towards K-12 teacher's salaries. I hear the median income in the military is around $120k. One tenth of the military budget could get teacher's salaries up to that amount, and we'd probably be able to throw in some state of the art learning facilities, smartboards, a computer at every desk, the works in practically every school. We'd have top notch facilities and candidates qualified to use it effectively!
Regardless of whether or not we end up using a tenure or merit system for hiring and firing (the benefits outweigh the flaws in the former, imo), schools will, in the end, get the quality of teachers that they are capable of paying for. How many good teachers do you think will work in a run down school teaching unruly students for $30k annual salary? I sure as hell wouldn't want to be that teacher.
- ryanwaggoner 16y agoI hear the median income in the military is around $120k. I'm pretty sure you heard wrong.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoI don't think an 8% increase in education funding will increase teacher salaries to $120k. You do realize that we already spend 15% more on education than we do on the military, right? http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_education_spending_20.html http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_education_spending_20...
- iko371 16y agoI love how when you click on the "about" tab on usgovernmentspending.com, it's basically revealed that the site is run by some guy with a blog. I went to the guy's blog, and prominently on the left side of the screen, there's an image that reads, "proud right wing extremist". Usgovernmentspending.com looks like a great source of accurate, reliable information! </sarcasm>
- yummyfajitas 16y agoWhat I love about it is when you scroll down, you can click on links which take you to the original source for the numbers (both official government sources). When you scroll down further, you see an explanation of his methodology in merging two spreadsheets. I guess ad-hominem attacks are easier than actually downloading the spreadsheets yourself and crunching the numbers, right? (Note: you can only download the spreadsheets for 2008 or earlier. 2009-2014 are marked as guesstimates, since official data is not yet available.