Utah Legislature has more ideas

The Utah Legislature is just pretending to be interested in improving teachers' salaries.  Their only ideas are to make teachers work more hours, and offer a small bonus to teachers in math, science, and special education (because math and science graduates can earn far more in the business world and not enough people want to teach special ed).  None of these ideas are going to help anything.  Extending contracts means teachers teach about 49 of the 52 weeks in a year.  Yes, that will increase their salaries by 30%.  That also means that every 3 weeks the class membership will change--one third will go off, another third will come back.  This is extraordinarily difficult to teach.  It requires loads of organization, planning all concept lessons into inclusive 3-week blocks, and massive record keeping to insure that all students receive all appropriate instruction.  Think about how that would have to be done.  I wouldn't want to do it--not for any amount of money.