By that same logic, pay CEOs and other corporate officers the same wage as teachers and see exactly how far that gets you.
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That’s slightly different logic
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You claim to educate people, right? Let’s pay you a teachers salary and see how far you get.
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I’m not saying teachers get paid a fair salary. My wife is a teacher in public schools. I’m saying paying all teachers $100k won’t solve all the problems.
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No, that’s not what you’re saying. You’re condescending the underlying point that public school teachers are underpaid.
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They are underpaid, but paying them a lot won’t fix the broken school systems
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This is exactly like the brain drain in mathematics and sciences by the financial sector: people follow the money.
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BART employees are more highly paid than Lambda School teachers, yet the trains don’t run on time and are a mess. Why is that?
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That is due to poor money management and corruption, not because spending more on quality doesn’t work. It does.
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At an opportunity cost level I can certainly see that. But we still think good teachers matter right? And 100k would bring in better teachers across the board. / What would be a better 'simple' change for the same cost be ? Or system is complex and we need some nuanced solutions?
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The social contract is a complex evolving system. Paying people more won't help that much if there is no belief that something more is at stake.
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