Confounding
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Curriculum should be top bar, and teachers should be paid as professionals recognizing their work as essential to society. A degree in their chosen subject should be the absolute minimum requirement.
I like this a lot. So you recognize that a job so essential to society should probably make more than 30-35k annually? A lot of teachers in a lot of places do start out that low. You're not going to get a lot of talented and qualified people to go to school for 6-8 years to make that kind of money along with all of the stress involved with being a teacher. A lot of them will and do decide to take their talents elsewhere. What about smaller classrooms so they can focus their energy on fewer students for better results? These things require money though.
Dissolve all tenured positions.
Those who don't cut it should be fired without fanfare.
I don't think shitty teachers should be nearly unfireable just because, but I think certain protections for teachers should be in place.
Also suggest resurrecting on a large scale the vocational education system for those students not academically inclined.
Agreed, but also expensive. I very much support the idea that not everybody should go to college. I think this idea that we pound into kids that says "Go to college or be a loser; there is no other way." is very problematic and leads to a lot of college dropouts and a lot of wasted time and energy for all involved.
Special needs students (psychos, bullies, thugs etc.) should be in separate systems to deal with special needs students.
Agreed.