03-09-2007, 06:30 AM
I need to poke around in the childstats web site some more, but that probably won't be tonight. What I didn't see in a quick glance was a way to compare those stats among children of different income levels.
The thing is, it's not really like there's a few isolated cases where there are issues at home among the kids I work with. It's the few isolated cases where there are no issues at home. If you're going to include "read to" on your list of criteria, well, the numbers just get smaller.
I honestly wonder if most if the increase in the cost of education lately is actually an increase in the cost of health care. With health care costs out of control and rising, the cost to employ anyone, in any field, is going up substantially.
Some argue that we should cut teachers' health benefits, but of course that's not getting to the root of the problem.
The thing is, it's not really like there's a few isolated cases where there are issues at home among the kids I work with. It's the few isolated cases where there are no issues at home. If you're going to include "read to" on your list of criteria, well, the numbers just get smaller.
I honestly wonder if most if the increase in the cost of education lately is actually an increase in the cost of health care. With health care costs out of control and rising, the cost to employ anyone, in any field, is going up substantially.
Some argue that we should cut teachers' health benefits, but of course that's not getting to the root of the problem.
Why can't we all just get along
--Pete
--Pete