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"On Tuesday, the Senate backed a Democratic amendment calling on Congress to set aside $3 billion in fiscal 2002, followed by increases of $500 million a year through fiscal 2008, to recruit and train teachers." -Reuters I could build and endow one hell of a monster (and good) teacher training establishment for that 31.5 BILLION dollars! Including land, facilities, and bribing away all the good professors, I couldn't possibly spend over five billion. The rest could go for endowment, implying that one could theoretically graduate about 90,000 well-trained teachers per year, AT NO COST TO THEM FOR TUITION, ROOM, AND BOARD. You could even pay them a small salary to attend. And that's the kind of thing one can do with big money. I could do it personally by making it a giant project and managing it. For a small percentage fee, say .01%. Does that give you a better idea of what a billion dollars really is? Someone needs to know, the politicos surely don't! They'll probably actually try to do their thing, pissing away perhaps 25 to 100 billion in the next decade to no real effect. [NB the "War On Drugs"] Their way, we'll wind up in 2010 a lot poorer with a still screwed up education system. My way, we could replace over three percent of the teacher population each year starting in about 2005. At no further cost to the taxpayer. "Build it and they will come?" Well, yes, but we'd also have to raise both wages and the degree of respect paid to the profession if we expect them to do the good job they'll have been trained for. wgc |
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