In all honesty, it's not their job to force, coax, or swindle students into learning. It's not their job to provide monetary incentives for kids to learn, like certain people want to do now. It is their job to provide an opportunity for students to learn. To me that means a classroom, a teacher (50 to 1 ratio), a textbook, a ride to school (actually the parents should take turns carpooling, but whatever), some equipment - a projector, cheap computers (they change all of the time anyways... just the basics), a basic science laboratory, a field and some balls for P.E., etcetera.
This can't cost that much money.
It is not the tax payers who are supposed to provide the desire to learn. Teachers and principals were never supposed to be disciplinarians, babysitters, emotional therapist, parents, and whatever else society tries to throw on their plates.
Teachers are supposed to provide, slow clear, and relevant, academic instruction. The principals position was intended for providing the necessary HR, and other logistical, bureaucratic school structure.
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