PK> -> -> If that is the case, we should do something.  For instance, if 
PK> you
PK> -> -> work lets say 8 hours per day, you should teach for lets say 4 
PK> hou
PK> -> -> take 1 hour for lunch, and grade for 3 hours.  
PK>
PK> -> I think that would be great. How do you suggest we go about
PK> -> accomplishing this change? (Certainly you realize that in a
PK> -> discussion area meant for teachers, where many teachers read and
PK> -> participate, that we would ALL welcome such a reasonable situation
PK> -> that would allow us to do our job better. Actually, you are NOT 
PK> the
PK> -> first one to suggest something like this in this forum. Do you
PK> -> expect that taxpayers to willingly double their tax expenditures 
PK> 
PK> No I am not saying that.  But the government should take some of the
PK> wasted money that we support the foreign countries and give it to our
PK> education system.  
    Foreign aid expenditures do not approach the existing annual budgets of 
the K-12 education system, so you could not double the K-12 school budget by 
eliminating foreign aid.  Federal statistics say over $222 billion is spent 
on K-12 education yearly, while foreign aid to all countries and 
international organizations is less than $15 million.
    Sheila is right when she says that your idea of halving teaching loads 
would depend entirely on convincing local taxpayers and state legislators to 
vote to double taxes.
PK> education system.  If they do that, eventually, crime will go down on
PK> our young adults, and it will cost us less in taxes as we do not have 
PK> to
PK> pay for jails etc.
    Pure conjecture, and very dubious conjecture at that.
    Kids who become criminals do so mainly due to bad (or nonexistent) 
parenting at _home_, involvement with drugs (mostly out of school), or 
usually both.  There is no reason to believe that having each teacher in K-12 
schools do less work will change the inadequate parenting or involvement with 
dope.
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