Pretty much all teachers I know (they're all high school teachers) would be perfectly happy without a raise if they could have classes that don't have 40+ kids in each.
Their second biggest complaint would also be the decline in standards, ie kids can submit assignments whenever they want without suffering any sort of penalty to their grade, let alone a 0. The last week of the semester is a rush by the kids to submit the assignments from January. Being strongly encouraged to "just pass" kids that have grades in the low 40s.
During report card comments last week, my wife was struggling to decide what comment to put down for a kid who has a 65% in her class despite having not completed a single project assignment. Kid would be in the 80s or 90s if he did. I suggested a good comment would be: "Timmy's grade would be improved if he complete the assignments assigned to him". Apparently she can't put a comment like that because it's "behavioral"...
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