I sat next to a woman at dinner last night who is the superintendent of a school system on Long Island with 7000 students. She told me that teachers are "definitely not paid enough," and "They should make more than you do."
(She said this without having the slightest clue what I do for a living.)
I asked her, for the sake of argument, what should teachers make?
"$250,000," came the response. Then she added:"People like you are destroying this country."
I told her that people like me were simply trying to prevent our country from becoming Greece, where people are literally destroying their country.
It was a nice dinner.
It's Not About Gaza
1 week ago
It's pretty crazy... a truly free market for teachers, where unions and legislatures did not control payscales and certification requirements, where principals could freely hire and fire, where raises and pensions were not guaranteed, where tenure did not exist, might easily have the best teachers being paid MORE than $250,000. Of course, that would be paid for by having a true bell curve in compensation, based on the effectiveness of the teacher and the resources of the school district, rather than the artificial valuations that result from our current system.
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