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To: SilentZ who wrote (463132)	3/12/2009 1:45:09 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575189

>> I'd very much consider teaching at that salary. LOL. Wouldn't that be great. Indoctrinating students with the concepts right out of the Communist Manifesto.

To: SilentZ who wrote (463132)	3/12/2009 4:15:04 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575189

Z, > I'd very much consider teaching at that salary. You should know a ton of people in Manhattan. How many of them make $200K/year and hate their jobs? Probably a lot. My favorite poster child for crappy health care, King-Drew Medical Center, paid their employees very well, including my wife when she worked there. Yet that did not foster any culture of patient care. All it did was foster a lot of politics, backstabbing, and mediocre work because good performance was never rewarded. Just working there was the "reward" in itself. Hence the reason why throwing money at teachers' salaries isn't going to help. They're just going to take the money and say, "Thank you suckers." Then you'll end up with a bunch of well-paid teachers who can't and won't do any better than before because of the hostile learning environment, the bureaucracy, and the rewarding of mediocrity. Besides, how are you going to attract a deeper pool of talent in the teaching industry when the teachers unions only reward seniority? They sure do NOT want the competition. Tenchusatsu