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If we paid them more, it’d be easier to hold them to a higher standard
Teacher unions don't want higher standards.
That’s a bit more accurate than your comment.
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The thing to compare to is the jobs the teachers could do if they weren't teachers. All of them have college degrees, many have masters degrees. The comparison point should be generic white collar office jobs, which are pretty much all easier (and especially , less annoying), higher paying, and more respected.
Generic office jobs don’t pay that much. At least the kind that require education degrees. And they lack security.
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Some of it was also that she shouldn't expect students to do homework, or she was expected to try and use word problems with narratives.
Those...sound like reasonable things? Many students aren't going to learn by rote memorization of completing homework. It it helpful to support different learning styles. A big problem with math education is that it's too abstract. It's hard to relate mathematical concepts to real life. "When are we going to use this?", people ask. Phrasing your questions in terms of real problems with a narrative can help students l…
Students get to practice what the teacher (tried to) showed them with different problems, so both they and the teacher can see if they mastered the topic.
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This is true in almost every country. Education is a money pit.
> Education is a money pit. How exactly do you mean this? The U.S. spent $90.5 billion for "Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education" in 2021* (a subset of "Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services"), which is 1.3% of $6.82 trillion in total 2021 government expenditures. Compare to $696.5B for Medicare, $754.8B for National Defense, etc. If anything, this illustrates how relatively unimportant a ba…
Per the US Department of Education[0], the US spends 34% more per student than the OECD average. At the post-secondary level, the US spends double the OECD average.
[0] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-exp...
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1. Administrators. We have insane administrative bloat, especially in higher ed. In some institutions there is nearly a 1:1 count of administrators to faculty. Ironically, given the social politics implied by the author, a significant amount of administration bloat is specifically tied to DEI. 2. Well, they are. A teaching certification used to only require two years of higher learning compared to typical 4 for other…
This is true in almost every country. Education is a money pit.
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> The teachers union has been waging a war against future teachers to benefit current teachers for 30 years this statement is presented as The Truth, do you have some information that backs this up?
The field of study of occupation licensing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_licensing It's absurd to think someone needs to take a $1k 'Philosophy of Mathematics' class to teach 10th grade geometry.
Considering that the primary complaint 10th grade math students have about math is often "How is this relevant to me and my life?", wouldn't studying the philosophy of mathematics help a teacher in addressing this concern?
(And about that summers off—with the exception of teachers who had non-teaching spouses or those in the back third of their career, everyone worked summer jobs to make ends meet.)
These problems are above and beyond the community's reach to be resolved.
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> 1. For as much as we spend on education, teachers seem to be grossly underpaid - to be getting robbed of their share of the budget. Where does that money go? Counterpoint: teachers' pay is great, it's just backloaded in pension plans. > 2. It seems that education degrees are seen as easier to achieve than others. Yeah, but cost is the same and cost is what's important. > 4. Many school problems are caused by disrup…
> Counterpoint: teachers' pay is great, it's just backloaded in pension plans. Nonsense. Even the most basic look at the numbers shows you this is absolutely false. Let's take a rich liberal state first. MA. Average teacher salary: $60k. Average pension $43k. Teachers contribute 9.78% of their salary in order to get this pension! The state contributes 18.17% This is not all that different from a 401k. You're confusin…
In our district, once you qualify for a pension you get 2% of your terminal salary per year you work. If you work for 40 years, you will be paid 80% of your last year's salary.
High School Teachers earned an average salary of $67,340 in 2020. Comparable jobs earned the following average salary in 2020: Elementary School Teachers made $65,420, Middle School Teachers made $64,990, School Counselors made $62,320, and Sports Coaches made $47,100.
Then we haven't even mentioned the massive debt students rake up to be able to pay for their education and sustain their lives while studying. It's one big mess.