Reflection On Gatto, Davis, And Freakonomics

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I agree with most of what Gatto, Davis, and Freakonomics said. Being a student who's spent most of his time in the system I personally think that we should start by getting more qualified teachers not someone who just knows the subject but to start that we need to figure out how we're gonna pay our teachers more so more qualified teachers will take the job for example with what Freakonomics said and that's to either reduce their taxes after 5 years or just increase their wage, next we need to start showing our teachers some more respect this might get more people into the field and make it feel that teaching is actually worth it. The actual system itself needs to be completely redone, we need to make it so the students actually have a voice

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