...

 MM> A teacher who can cut through that handicap is worth the
 MM> gold they weigh !

 Problem is, we don't have programs that pay like that. Top
 teachers git a small bonus, if they get anything. Then the bonus
 is usually a competive thing. The top teacher in the system gets
 the bonus an everybody else gets zip. Sounds like motivation,
 but it really isn't. If you have ten teachers, and have an
 opportunity to hire ten top quality teachers, only one can get
 the extra. Which means you get 1 top quality teacher, and the
 rest go somewhere else, or into something else.

 MM> Amen to that, too.  My contemporaries who got free
 MM> University educations moved into politics and made
 MM> education chargeable, devising a student loan scheme for
 MM> those without family gold.

 MM> This nation of 4 million now has 9 billion dollars owed it
 MM> by struggling graduates and fall-outers - and the debt is
 MM> accelorating.

 Yep. I used to think it wasn't a real problem, as the debt was a
 fraction of the increased earnings. However, it's gotten worse,
 and the job market may or may not provide a job that will pay
 the debt once the student graduates. Depends on when he
 graduates and where in the cycle it is.

 In the meantime, the more they need the money to go to college
 the more debt they have afterwards, keeping them in trouble
 along the way.

 MM> These politcians and economists ought to be re-drafted into
 MM> railway track maintenance....

 Amen.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... I am Ray Charles of Borg: The "right one" is irrelevant, baby!
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