CS5.5 Just ordered and at a price to make you jealous!

[colinbm]

Even the police up here have been discouraged from dipping their snouts into the golden arches trough.
Col

[Scotty72]

Even the police up here have been discouraged from dipping their snouts into the golden arches trough.
Col

But, cops getting a 1/2 price cheeseburger is very different.

Society says it wants kids to get the best education so they can become tech-savvy, computer literate etc.

It is self-evident that, if the kids are going to learn on all of this hyper-expense software, they need teachers who are themselves highly competent with the software.

Given that society likes to pay teachers (and nurses too) the absolute minimum (the lowest of all professionals with a 4 year degree), how do you expect that teachers will be able to afford to become familiar with all this software which is priced way beyond our reach?

People aren't willing to pay taxes for a decent education system so the departments could afford to invest in the equipment and training teachers need.

So, the public: don't want to pay for reasonable teacher salaries; don't think schools or the equipment needed to run them are worth the investment THEN complain when we are given an opportunity to invest in the ability for us to do our job.

I guess that Australia's investment in its kids education is just another of those mother-hood notions we are famous for...

'Education is the most important investment for our country's future... but we don't want to actually spend a cent on it.'

As reflected in the fact that our education spending / GDP is woeful (far less than UK, USA, NZ and most of western Europe)

Giving a cop a discounted cheeseburger is hardly benifiting the national interest.