This is exactly like the brain drain in mathematics and sciences by the financial sector: people follow the money.
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Replying to @babagannoujh
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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Replying to @AustenAllred
True or false, the majority of your “teachers” are already wealthy in their own right?
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Replying to @babagannoujh
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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Replying to @babagannoujh
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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Replying to @AustenAllred
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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Replying to @babagannoujh
And you think teachers making $100k would solve that?
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Replying to @AustenAllred
You seem to be someone that clings to whatever surface you can find in order to dismiss the substance. Let’s call it $80k or $120k or some other $ figure that incentivizes top talent to apply. It’s the same logic your so called school leverages to justify its existence.
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Replying to @babagannoujh
No, you seem to be not understanding my argument, and unwilling t even fathom that yours might be missing something. Teachers can only do so much if the rest of the system is broken. Especially for elementary aged children.
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Paying teachers more will get better teachers. Better teachers alone will not fix the entire educational system.
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