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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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What about people that work in education? This is not possible to attain if kids go to school for the amount of time they currently do. Teachers, paras, custodians, IT people etc have no choice in this unless kids have less time in the classroom as well. So unless all those people get paid more to keep doing 40 while the rest gets more life back you'll be hard pressed to find people that want to work education..like anyone wants to work education these days anyways.
Hire more teachers and roster them.
Next question
Your answer isn't constructive, and your "next question" line is unnecessarily glib.
Finding good teachers is hard enough as It is.
I work in education, my district is very well funded and had over 1,400 applicants with a smidge over 800 being considered qualified and quality. We only had 82 spots to fill.
There are plenty of good teachers, shortages are due to pay and treatment.
Your last sentence supports my point though. I'm not suggesting that there's a shortage of good teachers, just stating the fact that it's difficult to find and retain good teachers.
I come from a family full of teachers and educators and even a superintendent. I've witnessed firsthand how public education can chew up and spit out even the most dedicated teachers.