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Why shouldn't teachers make six figures? I mean after all, half the people here just put buttons on websites and get paid six figures.
Because teacher salaries, like the salaries of people here, should be determined by the market not by warm and fuzzy feelings.
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“The two parties are the same, it doesn’t matter who you vote for”
This is the polical equivalent of "the allies committed warcrimes in ww2 too". One "side" is a whole lot worse than the other hahaha
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If you value education, why does your state have unions that force pay based on seniority and not outcome?
How is outcome measured?
Edit: why the downvotes? If you are uncertain of or unamenable to the way outcomes are measured, vouchers are a reasonable solution that puts the power in your hands
My first “real” job after college (2013) I started at $60k. It was more than my mom, an elementary school teacher, ever made. It felt embarrassing. Teachers are at least as valuable as software developers (probably more), given their impact on society. Why do they make so little?
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teachers still have to exist in society all year round though
Then they get a summer job. I remember an elementary school teacher from when I was a kid who was a park ranger in the summer.
You could be part of the open data movement and a researcher in your spare time not stocking grocery store shelves.
Yes I’m suggesting your credentials are worthless. Why do we need full time university researcher role play when millions the world over are “researching” software engineering?
There are far fewer teachers. Sounds like a pay rebalancing given market realities is in order. Coders are everywhere. Minimum wage for them!
The minimum starting salary for a teacher in Chicago is $60,000 (cost of living adjusted), the highest in the country. It hasn't solved Chicago Public Schools' problems. Source: https://wirepoints.org/chicago-teachers-are-paid-some-of-the...
sure but it probably has solved many financial problems for Chicago teachers, which is a good enough reason to implement a tool like this.
https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.104.9.2633
They claim replacing a bad teacher with an average teacher is worth like $250k in earnings per classroom. It's unclear what effect a blanket minimal salary would have on teacher quality. I'd be worried that it might make bad teachers stick around with good ones already making more than that.
I'm in NJ where we value public education, for the most part. According to National Center for Education Statistics our average teacher pay was $77,489 in 2022. This is excluding benefits/pension. Well worth it.
60k is okay in some areas, personally I think the average salary should be 85-90k and over 100k where cost of living is much higher.
My first “real” job after college (2013) I started at $60k. It was more than my mom, an elementary school teacher, ever made. It felt embarrassing. Teachers are at least as valuable as software developers (probably more), given their impact on society. Why do they make so little?
Because of targeted propaganda and attacks by an organized political group that holds, as an ideology, that public institutions should not exist and everything should be done by the private sector.