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[Diroga]

Does giving schools more money improve them? Money does not make a teacher better. It gives teachers better tools and environments to work in. Tools and environments can go only to a cretin extent. Locally where I live a private Christian school had higher SAT scores than five school public schools. Of those five schools, two schools are considered "preppy". I have been to three of those schools and they are looking good as for the building. They have TV's, computers, projectors and whole wings dedicated to science. At the private school they only have one hall way and no expensive equipment like the public school. Yet they got better score. It could bet just chance or maybe the quality is better. Granted there are many variable is play, but the prominent fact is that public schools do not reward good teachers. There is no incentive for the teachers to do a good job. Also education is monopolistic. All schools offer basically the same thing. If schools offered more money to teachers with better skills then those good teachers would pick the school that paid more. Then the school that offered more money would have better teachers. Parents would see that the school had better teachers; therefore a greater potential for their kids to get a better education. So kids stop going to the schools with the lesser quality of teachers, which results in the schools loosing money. The schools need money to exist so they must start competing by offering more money to better teachers so that better teachers will go to their school which will attract more paying parents to send their kids their. Schools that pay more to teacher that have better teaching skills than other teachers create incentives for teachers to better their skills. If teachers do not better their skills then they are faced with the option of getting a lower paying teaching job or find a different field.

Please productively criticize me. I would like to know the errors in my reasoning.