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> Better training for teachers, higher barriers to entry, and much stronger incentives to be a teacher. How do you achieve that? By privatizing schools?
by whitepaint 6y ago
> Better training for teachers, higher barriers to entry, and much stronger incentives to be a teacher.
How do you achieve that? By privatizing schools?
- Bakary 6y agoReforming the degrees and schools that train teachers. Increasing teacher salaries in the public sector. Essentially making it more selective but giving a higher reward goes hand in hand. Making it a funnel where a portion of unmotivated and planless people go helps neither the profession nor the students IMO. The private sector usually does fine on its own since they cater to the wealthy and have the necessary resources. Some countries take teachers very seriously, such as Finland, so it's definitely something that is possible to implement if still much harder in a very large country.
- imtringued 6y agoIf you really want to privatize schools they absolutely most be non profit with salary caps. (not 2x more than the median salary). In practice privatization doesn't work because rich parents can afford expensive schools and their children perform better simply because they aren't poor. Additionally, private schools don't take on disabled or delayed students because that would ruin profits.