Sorry Jobs, Scoble has it right. It’s great to see the tech bloggers getting into important social issues even if the original note was laced with tech.
If you want better schools, pay teachers $80,000 a year or more, AND give the staff power to get rid of bad apples (bad pun, given the cause of today’s post, I know) and you’ll see school quality turn around in an instant.The problem is that the political system here won’t allow politicians to increase taxes to pay for higher school wages and the unions won’t allow reforms to get rid of bad teachers. Instead we get stupid patches to the system like the “no child left behind†initiative which tries to improve results by mandating tests (most teachers I talk with say that initiative is a disaster).
