Friday, March 21, 2008
Meeting
One Tuesday around dinner time I tuned in to a meeting on news channel 3 ( I woke up and it was on). The meeting was in response to the Lester St. murders. City leaders got together to discuss the problems in out city. The most important person there was A.C Wharton (Memphis city mayor wasn’t there). When I tuned in they were talking about the Memphis City Schools and the crime that follows it. They had good points saying that the crime rate in the city would go down if we start people when they are young, but as stated before the way that they approach it is ineffective. One lady had probably the best idea of raising a teachers salary. When she said that she got a strong applause. Teachers have to go to college get masters degrees and then have to deal with bad children for a little salary, They really should be the highest paid profession but that’s not going to happen. Also not surprising the place was half empty so most of the city doesn’t care. If we continue to not care nothing will change and look forward to many more headline news stories.
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I think it would be a good idea to raise teachers’ salaries. We would not have the doctors and lawyers and such if it was not for teachers. I think many people, some who might be better qualified, decide not to go into teaching because of the low salary. I also think the higher salary will give teachers better incentive for working harder and really helping their students learn.
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