When is Buffalo going to learn?
You can't fix our crappy school system, by cutting funding and attacking teachers!
If you look at the recent release of local top school systems (http://www.wkbw.com/news/business/SCHOOL-RANKINGS-Top-Elementary-schools-123314043.html), what do you see?
The areas with the highest paid teachers have the best school systems. Buffalo, with the median teacher pay among the lowest, has the worst school system.
This isn't rocket science: To attract top talent, you need to pay top wages. If you are paying slave wages and benefits, to a professional who needs a minimum of a master's degree; you get the people who couldn't hack it anywhere else, and are looking to take ANY job they can find. If you pay top wages, you attract the best god damned talent! This is Economics 101 here.
And, you'll also see another trend: Areas with the best school systems attract the best businesses. Want to know why Tech Companies aren't banging down the doors to move in here? It isn't because NYS taxes are high. It's because talented employees DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN A DUMB AREA.
Charter schools, while appearing to be a panacea, are in fact hiding behind the ability to pick and choose who they accept. The same goes with all privatized school solutions. They can pick the cream of the crop, and leave the "undesirables" alone. Private schools don't have to deal with problem students, problem parents, and poor neighborhoods. They pick who they let in, and where they set up shop.
Fixing our school system should be the top priority. Not trying to woo companies with exorbitant tax breaks to move here (Which, come 5-10 years, they will threaten to move again unless we cut their tax bill). Not giving welfare checks to millionaires like Carl Paladino (http://goprealitycheck.com/paladino/171/ny-taxpayer-brigade-carl-where-are-the-jobs-), who gets $1.4 million per year to create ONE JOB.
Fix our school system, and then you'll find people WANTING to move here. Parents (Who work, and are professionals) look for the best school system to settle down their children. When we have the best schools, we'll get the best people moving here. Which in turn leads companies to MOVE HERE in order to get the talent they need to succeed in this competitive business environment.
If we continue to fight against our teachers, and other public workers; we are actually gouging our own eye out in order to hand more money over to people like Carl Paladino...
You can't fix our crappy school system, by cutting funding and attacking teachers!
If you look at the recent release of local top school systems (http://www.wkbw.com/news/business/SCHOOL-RANKINGS-Top-Elementary-schools-123314043.html), what do you see?
The areas with the highest paid teachers have the best school systems. Buffalo, with the median teacher pay among the lowest, has the worst school system.
This isn't rocket science: To attract top talent, you need to pay top wages. If you are paying slave wages and benefits, to a professional who needs a minimum of a master's degree; you get the people who couldn't hack it anywhere else, and are looking to take ANY job they can find. If you pay top wages, you attract the best god damned talent! This is Economics 101 here.
And, you'll also see another trend: Areas with the best school systems attract the best businesses. Want to know why Tech Companies aren't banging down the doors to move in here? It isn't because NYS taxes are high. It's because talented employees DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN A DUMB AREA.
Charter schools, while appearing to be a panacea, are in fact hiding behind the ability to pick and choose who they accept. The same goes with all privatized school solutions. They can pick the cream of the crop, and leave the "undesirables" alone. Private schools don't have to deal with problem students, problem parents, and poor neighborhoods. They pick who they let in, and where they set up shop.
Fixing our school system should be the top priority. Not trying to woo companies with exorbitant tax breaks to move here (Which, come 5-10 years, they will threaten to move again unless we cut their tax bill). Not giving welfare checks to millionaires like Carl Paladino (http://goprealitycheck.com/paladino/171/ny-taxpayer-brigade-carl-where-are-the-jobs-), who gets $1.4 million per year to create ONE JOB.
Fix our school system, and then you'll find people WANTING to move here. Parents (Who work, and are professionals) look for the best school system to settle down their children. When we have the best schools, we'll get the best people moving here. Which in turn leads companies to MOVE HERE in order to get the talent they need to succeed in this competitive business environment.
If we continue to fight against our teachers, and other public workers; we are actually gouging our own eye out in order to hand more money over to people like Carl Paladino...
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