But at the moment most American schools basically throw teachers in at the deep end of the pool and hope that they will be able not only to swim but also to keep all their students afloat, too.
But private-sector spending has risen even faster.Victims all"The crime situation in South Africa has become so severe that the sad reality is that it's not if, but when, you will become a victim," said a Durban magistrate when sentencing three men for throwing a teacher off a high bridge after hijacking her car last November.
Its driving force is union jitters over a Los Angeles judge's throwing out teacher seniority protections.
If completely throwing our teacher rights is not the answer, then what needs to be done?
The problem can start from early in a teacher's career, with some schools too willing to throw inexperienced teachers into the toughest situations.
He shut down Armenian schools, threw Armenian teachers in jail, prohibited the use of the word "Armenia" in newspapers and textbooks, and formed special Kurdish regiments, known as the Hamidiye, whose raison d'être appears to have been to harass Armenian farmers.
The paper does make a number of embarrassing spelling errors ("dissention," "anti-semetic") but William H. Pritchard, an English professor at Amherst, who read the paper at The Times's request, shrewdly suggested that, in this day of spell check, they may have been included deliberately, to throw suspicious teachers off the track.
Hardback books, Jenga blocks, drawing pins, and even plaster casts were thrown at teachers and classroom assistants - others were punched in the face or bitten, and some were threatened by pupils with knives and scissors.
After years of earning C grades and throwing erasers at teachers, he said, he felt engaged for the first time by a teacher who used stories about his grandmother's attendance at a trial to teach history.
You are unlikely to find many of these preschool teachers throwing around the N-word or judges reminiscing about slavery.
