Because as we all know, money spent by government entities and quality of outcomes are directly correlatedhttps://twitter.com/mrronclark_/status/980513424072429569 …
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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True or false, the majority of your “teachers” are already wealthy in their own right?
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True, and unimportant. We could still have a very crappy school with wealthy, well-paid teachers. If you put those same teachers in the public school system they would have a very hard time being successful.
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How the actual fuck do you think that works?
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Have you ever been in a poor district? My wife worked in one. She worked her ass off, didn’t move the needle much, because everything around her was broken.
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Yes. I’ve been in many poor districts. I’ve had to convince myself that people were lighting off fireworks (in February). I moved from one place when bullets came through my window and from another when they found a body in our yard.
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And you think teachers making $100k would solve that?
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So paying CEOs a lot won’t attract top talent? Keep your logic consistent.
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You’re making a connection I’m not. We would have better teachers if we paid more, yes. That still wouldn’t make our schools the best in the world. The problems in the school system are systemic.
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Incorrect. In fact, the bulk of the problems with our nations schools can be laid squarely (and fairly) at the feet of income inequality. It’s one of those rare instances when the federal government would actually be of some use.
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You think paying teachers more will solve income inequality?
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No I don’t, but it will solve the quality of education people in poorer neighborhoods receive which will, in turn, have a direct impact on future earnings. As someone who’s main (only) pitch is the quality of the instructors, you cannot possibly disagree on that.
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If you took teachers in the poorest districts and paid them $100k each I do not believe it would solve the problem.
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No, it wouldn’t. But this might be what you’re not getting: offer the job at $100K and then select the best applicants. Please just try and tell me that wouldn’t make a difference.
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