okay what do you think
something wrong with our school systems yes
right um-hum
nobody wants to go to public schools um
yeah the class sizes are too large and they don't pay the teachers enough
like in Dallas they have too many administrators they're top-heavy
yeah
and uh they had yesterday on the news they had some problems with the
the text
having um mistakes in them
yeah
and uh a lot of them aren't like the history books aren't historically correct they they covered up a lot of the bad things that have happened
just what do you think can be done about that
well i think they need to
do whatever they can like um i think
um Massachusetts put a priority on education and and um
bringing in industry and recruiting
yeah
and they made a lot of difference in that state and in Texas i think we're like twenty ninth in spending
you know and they put through this Robin Hood bill but it doesn't change the amount of spending overall it just distributes the money more evenly
yeah
and so that they need to do that they need to increase spending they need to um make it so that the teachers want to stay in teaching because most of the time the teachers spend
disciplining the the kids instead of instead of teaching the subject now
i agree
so
i've got a friend who's uh a very talented teacher and has given it up
um-hum
uh in Carrollton uh just because it's not i mean she just can't stand the paper work um
you know it's uh
and she's not paid enough she gets more as a filing claims for an insurance company which she's not even trained to do
um-hum
so
i think it's real discouraging
yeah
and uh i i think they changed the way the ladder is now that it takes a longer time for for you to qualify for a higher salary and uh it's it's um
it's more subjective than it was before
yeah
so
i don't know you know i don't know what incentive a teacher has to stay in teaching
i don't either
well do you have children
i just have uh one daughter she's six now she's going to Richardson Public Schools
out of the Dallas School District
basically
um-hum
yeah
right
i don't have any but if i did i don't know that i could i would want them to be in a Dallas School District
right but the worst school districts are Dallas Garland Carrollton
um Coppell really doesn't matter much it's it's is not at the bottom and the best is uh Highland Park Richardson and Plano
yeah
how old is your daughter
she's six
so she's just started this year
yeah
and you know and she's learning to read so and she can do a little bit of math now so
where are you speaking from i can hear a lot of background noise
oh uh Valley View Mall
oh
oh yeah there's supposed to all all the calls are supposed to be from a different phone so
yeah
that's where i am and they have a lot of pay phones here so
wow that is funny
you know
and i and i don't know uh uh they cut back on the since Mark White passed that bill about
well
um-hum
cutting back on all the extracurricular activities that may have improved a little bit
because um
i was talking to a lady the other day and that that's the first thing she said her her both her children were in band and they'd quit
um-hum
and she said the band teacher acted like band was the only subject that he was taking and he was suppose to spend spend all of his time on band
and demanded the children right
right and he he was taking honors classes in all his other subjects he goes to the Lewisville School District
uh-huh
and uh you know it's just ridiculous so he just quit simple as that
hm
everything should be equal you know and there's no reason you already spend all that time in band there's no reason that he should practice more than an hour a day outside of band if he if he even has the energy especially in marching season
well that goes along with football though too you know it uh
you know
right and and what do you do when you are taking calculus and uh chemistry and physics two and
