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> Education Funding issue I understand you're talking about college education. But I can't avoid mentioning my beloved Baltimore School District. Awesome fundi

> Education Funding issue I understand you're talking about college education. But I can't avoid mentioning my beloved Baltimore School District. Awesome funding. Shitty results. [1] https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/baltimore-city-schools-graduation-rate-drops-to-six-year-low https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/baltimore-ci... [2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/03/30/baltimore-city-public-schools-promoted-student-with-013-gpa-while-spending-a-14-billion-budget https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/03/30/bal... [3] https://educationdata.org/public-education-spending-statistics https://educationdata.org/public-education-spending-statisti...

giantg2 5y ago
I had a friend who worked at the Baltimore Aquarium. The workers there had college degrees in stuff like biology and were only paid about $30k per year. Yet they had about a dozen executives making salaries that were 10x higher. Your link with salaries made me think about that.
- AlexTWithBeard 5y ago
  I understand glassdoor.com [1] data should be taken with a grain of salt, but from what I see there $30k is a fairly junior position and most exec salaries are around $100-150k. It doesn't strike me as something being completely out of whack. [1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/National-Aquarium-Baltimore-Salaries-EI_IE32646.0,17_IL.18,27_IM63.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/National-Aquarium-Baltimore...
  - giantg2 5y ago
    Seems pretty terrible for a position that requires college and is not the cheapest of areas to live in... safely (he needed roommates and still lived in an area with crime, including a guy getting shot a couple houses down). That's $15/hr. You can earn that working at Lowe's or Walmart and not take on $60k of debt. At that wage, you're basically just paying interest. He also said there's basically no mobility. A guy he knew was there for closet to 20 years, got good reviews, etc, and was still only making about $45k as a supervisor who also filled other roles.

giantg2 5y ago

I had a friend who worked at the Baltimore Aquarium. The workers there had college degrees in stuff like biology and were only paid about $30k per year. Yet they had about a dozen executives making salaries that were 10x higher. Your link with salaries made me think about that.

AlexTWithBeard 5y ago
I understand glassdoor.com [1] data should be taken with a grain of salt, but from what I see there $30k is a fairly junior position and most exec salaries are around $100-150k. It doesn't strike me as something being completely out of whack. [1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/National-Aquarium-Baltimore-Salaries-EI_IE32646.0,17_IL.18,27_IM63.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/National-Aquarium-Baltimore...
- giantg2 5y ago
  Seems pretty terrible for a position that requires college and is not the cheapest of areas to live in... safely (he needed roommates and still lived in an area with crime, including a guy getting shot a couple houses down). That's $15/hr. You can earn that working at Lowe's or Walmart and not take on $60k of debt. At that wage, you're basically just paying interest. He also said there's basically no mobility. A guy he knew was there for closet to 20 years, got good reviews, etc, and was still only making about $45k as a supervisor who also filled other roles.