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The problem with the teacher pay to me is obvious, market forces aren't allowed to play themselves out. Think about it: A teacher should be paid according to t
by zarro 7y ago
The problem with the teacher pay to me is obvious, market forces aren't allowed to play themselves out.
Think about it:
A teacher should be paid according to their skill, supply, and demand. A great teachers time is highly valuable and there should never be a cap on how much they make or considerations on such an important task to hinder on concepts such as tenure.
If I hire a private teacher for my kids to teach them programming, I know that a great teacher has options to go work anywhere and I need to pay enough to afford a good one. I might get a couple friends kids to join to afford his time. Put together a few different subjects and all of the sudden you have a school.
So the question is why is this simple concept not being followed? The answer is lack of accountability, artificial barriers to entry, limitations on control to pick your instructors, standardized testing requirements, checkbox mentality, teachers unions, etc.
Steve Jobs was right, if were going to continue taking money from peoples paychecks to fund a dilapidated educational system, we are much better off giving the money we spend on a kids education directly to the parents (with the obligation to spend it only on education), and letting them select the course of education for their own kids themselves.
- neaden 7y agoGreat. First thing we have to do is figure out a way to evaluate teacher school, something that I'm sure will be totally uncontroversial to do and not simply be a group of people bringing all their own biases in.
- mehhh 7y agoStipend and educational "choice" programs rarely work as intended, hence the charter school movement withering in the US. Most alternative schools are like TM Landry, with profit or religous indoctrination often being the 1st priority, and actual education not being statistically different than what public schools offer.
- ghostly_s 7y agoAh yes, Steve Jobs, noted expert on such topics as education and medicine.
- zarro 7y agoI do get that dealing with the main argument and providing a counter argument is hard, but I don't think you can actually win an argument by attacking the credibility of deliverer rather than the argument they propose.
- brodouevencode 7y agoEverything you're saying is fundamentally correct. But because your post has a political "tinge" to it it's going to get downvoted.
- sjg007 7y agoThe result would be millions of parents scammed out of the money...
- AlexanderNull 7y agoHow are those people who were already failed by the terrible education system you mention going to be smart enough to choose a good course of education for their own kids? Or is this just a wordy way of saying, "I'll get mine and forget everyone else"?