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But a lot of money is wasted in education, as well. There are incompetent teachers with too much seniority to fire, for example, who are at the top of the pay
by blisterpeanuts 6y ago
But a lot of money is wasted in education, as well. There are incompetent teachers with too much seniority to fire, for example, who are at the top of the pay scale, and with nice pensions waiting for them when they do retire. Many competent ones as well, but it's a big enough problem that basically every teacher I've ever met can tell you stories.
- tryptophan 6y agoMy mother is a teacher, and the stories she tells me make me really doubt our public education system. Administrators only care about 'passing' students so that they can 'graduate'. Helping students during standardized exams? Happens. Passing students with a 14% score in the class so they can graduate? Was forced to do that. Teachers that don't teach, but try to be 'cool' and play phone games with the kids? Ok. Admins implementing shitty policies because they read a paper by some idiot phD? Yup. Tons of busywork for teachers, designed to wear them out and get them to just play along with the 'pass everyone' game? A stack of that. And this is supposedly the best school in the county...many houses in the $mills$ nearby.
- ikeyany 6y agoI'm curious about the true total cost of pensions for jobs like teachers and cops.
- lotsofpulp 6y agoAdd at least 30% to the numbers provided by the government hired actuaries. Each percent the assumed discount rate is too high results in ~15% change in liabilities. Not even mentioning additional liabilities due to underfunding, bad investments/corruption, and erroneous assumptions about mortality.