"Educated professionals to educate" lol Christ the Amish kids probably know and have learned more from their teacher in a one room school building, a text book, blackboard and pencil and paper than most of the kids getting their diploma on graduation day.

I respect teachers. The same as I respect our local police, volunteer firemen, the clerk where I get my morning coffee or any other employed person of my community. The pedestal teachers have been put on the cross they really need to climb down from is way up there.

The answer is always the same when it involves education, throw money at it. Am I to assume that someone going to school in the 60s, 70's or 80's got less of an education? How about farther back? The 30's and 40's? I guess they were really robbed without laptops, whiteboards and all the tech. Stadiums and sports complexes.