The Rude Pundit - A Tale of Two Nations and Their Future Teachers

[MadHound]

5. Actually it is necessary

If you want to get the best teachers around, you have to pay for it, same as with any other profession. How many miracles do you think doctors in this country would perform if they were getting the same pay as teachers? How many athletes would go into football so that they can make that one handed, tip toe down the sideline catch if they were getting paid low five figures instead of seven figure salaries.

You get what you pay for. Sure, we had great teachers, lots of them at one time. That was because we had a captive work force. Teaching was the intellectual woman's job, as opposed to the other two women's jobs, nursing and secretary. Thus, you could hire lots and lots of brilliant, great women to be teachers, and pay them shit.

Fast forward to the seventies and eighties, and with the profession after better paying profession opening up to women, why are they going to stick around teaching, when they could get better pay elsewhere?

If you believe that teaching is one of the most important professions around, then you have to pay teachers like you mean it.