The Future of America rest within the Education system. Unfortunately the education system is not what it needs to be. Currently, most of the education budget goes to administrators instead of the children and the teachers. We need to streamline the current education system. We need to focus on the students and increasing there educational opportunities. If we were to take all school systems and incorporate them into a county system we could save millions of dollars in administrative cost and use that money on the students.
Currently in Mississippi we spend on average $9,498 per student. This is more than enough to give a good education. When you look at spending on students in other countries like Japan and China they spend less per student and yet there students out perform our students on every level.
Why is That?
One reason this is true is due to Tenure. We have an educational system that protects teachers from being able to be fired for poor performance after they have been there for so long. Don't get me wrong there are many Good teachers out there who love there Jobs and are good at teaching it, but you still have many teachers who show up, give an assignment and never open there book to teach.
We need to implement a system of Grading teachers based on there performance. Teachers who do not meet the grade get the opportunity to find another career. In other words if you don't teach, you don't get paid.
