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The $4 million dollar teacher.

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Honestly, this is a neat story and it may work well in South Korea...

I doubt in the US it would work well at all. Inner city and extreme rural schools are what drive our education standards down. Incentive pay will work in the US, but it has to be coupled with education plans/curriculum targeted at the school type: ie; failing inner city and rural versus higher performing suburb school. This one size fits all common core is not workable in all schools in the US. Forced busing isn't the answer either as we've found in NC.
 
Dari said:
That's how it is in all those countries in that region. It's great until all that money does not produce the desired results. These kids go to school. Then an after-school school. Then another school or program to learn something like piano. Parents can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars before college. There are extremely high expectations and when those are not met, things can be traumatic for everyone. Worse, because parents spend so much on education, it determines how many kids they have. That can have adverse economic affects.

Yes, we are different but, again, look at where they're sending their kids. The best come here...
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you intended to say, but it sounds like you're saying that in those Asian countries that highly value education, 50% of THOSE students don't do their homework regularly? I highly doubt that. If a parent spends $$$ for the student to go to the class, and the teacher reports back to the parent that the student isn't making any effort, I think it's FAR more likely over there for the student to be corrected by the parent, rather than over here. Heck, I know of students who stayed home the other day to play grand theft auto 5 - WITH their parents.
 
If a parent spends $$$ for the student to go to the class, and the teacher reports back to the parent that the student isn't making any effort, I think it's FAR more likely over there for the student to be corrected by the parent, rather than over here.
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for sure. This is every Asian child's memory of the 80's:

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Ns1 said:
My parents were too poor to afford rattan. Clearly your family was ballin'.
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My classmate had a father that owned a rattan furniture factory... he shipped bundles to the teacher... and she went through at least one bundle
 
Ns1 said:
ouch. literally.
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nothing worse than a pissed off pregger teacher.


She was our home form teacher, and her standard is 80%. If you don't get 80% on every single quiz, you get whacked. Once per percent.

This is on top of whatever the subject teacher dishes out.

The father of my schoolmate delivered the first bundle personally to the class and said "call me when are are done with these and I'll shop another bundle." Right in front of the whole class.
 
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sdifox said:
nothing worse than a pissed off pregger teacher.


She was our home form teacher, and her standard is 80%. If you don't get 80% on every single quiz, you get whacked. Once per percent.

This is on top of whatever the subject teacher dishes out.

The father of my schoolmate delivered the first bundle personally to the class and said "call me when are are done with these and I'll shop another bundle." Right in front of the whole class.
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LOL 80's.
 
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