| | | >> You bring up all this crap about the teachers' unions but why don't they get paid a salary commensurate with their educational attainment?
They are vastly overpaid for their "educational attainment". Let's be realistic; Many, if not most, Education majors are people who really couldn't handle a real major in college. That's not to say that no Education major excels at his/her education; university students tend to get out of a program what they put into it. But most are under-achievers.
>> maybe the reason the brightest are not attracted is because the pay sucks.
How can you say "the pay sucks"? Even in Arkansas, which you claim is one of the poorest in the nation, salary is $61K annualized, and that is for 7 hour work days with TONS of time off. Add on benefits, and you're getting up in the 80s easily. You can get a degree in Education by just showing up. How is that not overpaying?
>> Teachers have to meet them or they get fired.
This is total bullshit.
In NYC, between 2007-2010, a total of 88 teachers (out of 80,000) lost their jobs for lousy performance -- that is less that 4/100ths of a percentage point per year. Are you fucking kidding me? In these horrible school districts, it takes an act of Congress to fire a bad teacher.
>> You keep saying that but my personal experience is that bad teachers do get fired.
The facts, hard numbers, do not coincide with your personal experience. |
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