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George Will gives a boost to a proposal by Patrick Byrne to require more of school budgets to be devoted to classroom teaching. I've thought for years that we encourage our best and most ambitious teachers to go into administration. We give them incentives to get more education and leave the classroom. Too often, those who remain as teachers are the ones without the drive to get ahead. This isn't true of all teachers or even the majority of them. Many do it because they love the job and take great satisfaction in seeing kids learn. But increasingly teachers get caught up in the union mentality and silly educational theories driven by the need to debunk existing methods.