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I have no kids, but I can tell that the teachers motivation is very important... Ideal situation would be teachers who are working a job, beside their teaching job - that job should be something where they use what they teach about in the classroom - ex. history teacher working also in a museum etc. Would keep teachers motivation high, because they are not only teaching kids, but also getting input from the outside world.
Maybe to ideal, but that would solve alot of the problems in education imho.