When the financing of schools is debated, tempers flare because better-off school districts fear losing their funds.
As Tennessee has shown, our children, our teachers, and our country will be better off when school leaders and educators finally undertake the challenging task of creating a meaningful and useful system for supporting and evaluating our nation's teachers.
We'd all be better off if schools taught reading as a "tool" to support learning those big ideas found in subject-matter instruction.
Igoe admits that for some 16-year-olds "there's a maturity issue … they may need a longer time to develop"; and so might be better off in schools.
They have just made a $10,000 , $15,000 or $25,000bet that their child will be better off in private school than public school.
They are incentivised either to avoid working at the school or to screen its entrants and tell parents of those with special needs they'd be better off at the school down the road.
I'll just be better off doing trade school for engineering or computer science, because right now I work as a messenger and I go to school.
"Some of us think that for the march we might be better off staying in school," the boy wid.
By the end, he has realized that politics is a bit beyond him, and that he'd be better off as a school teacher in Alabama that sort of thing being more his speed.
"If there isn't going to be a job or it's going to be a job that won't allow you to pay back your loan, maybe you're better off going to school part time," he said.
Consider your child's ability levels, and whether they would be better off in a public school or a school for disabled children.
