Comment Re:Hello Captain Obvious (Score 1) 105
#1 Teacher pay, outside a rock bottom amount seen almost entirely in rural areas, has no significant effect on student performance
#2 This is a problem, perhaps if admin overhead hadn't ballooned far beyond teacher pay or student allotment it might not be an issue
#3 Irrelevant. They need to reinstitute student accountability. Disruption of class gets ISS and then suspension. Violence gets suspension. Continued violence gets expulsion. If you can't read, write, or do your sums at grade level, you get held back a grade in classes with people who were held back grades so as not to disturb the kids who didn't.
#3 in particular would solve most issues, with the rest being solved by getting rid of common core entirely. Phonics, grammar, memorization in math of tables and formulas, and book reports on books the kid chooses. Only one mandatory book per semester. Unless you're in AP class nothing else really matters to the process of learning prior to 8th or 9th grade.