WakeandBake
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No one is bitching about teachers making 76k, just saying that it's hard to call that underpaid. It's a pretty competitive salary and should be enough to attract high quality teachers. However they are not getting results. Either they don't have high quality teachers (which means they shouldn't be paying them 76k a year) or they do have good teachers who aren't getting good results (which means hey shouldn't be paying 76k a year).
Also comparing teaching wages to investment bankers is the definition of an apple to oranges comparison.
It depends on what you, and society, value for their dollar. If your kid is only worth being taught by a middle of the road salaried, middle of the road mind, then don't complain about the results. You must not really place a high value on the person your kid spends his or her day with learning. You are saying that if the results suck, lower their pay. I'm saying if the results suck, perhaps we aren't attracting good enough people to teach our kids. I want to see the valedictorian teaching the kids, but the valedictorian goes to work for an investment firm and produces nothing except more money. That's fine and all, but if our kids are valued as much as they should be, they'd be getting the good education.
and how is that apples to oranges? I was talking about what our best and brightest choose to do for a living, and why.