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I you want to have good teachers, you need to pay them good yearly salaries. Probably 200K in the tech hubs, 100K in the rest of the world. If your teaching as
by konschubert 3y ago
I you want to have good teachers, you need to pay them good yearly salaries. Probably 200K in the tech hubs, 100K in the rest of the world.
If your teaching assistant gets 54K from you (in SF!!) and then has to work odds jobs during the summer, you're going to get the rare idealist and a bunch of ppl who are bad at making decisions.
- rahimnathwani 3y agoSan Francisco is a tech hub. There are good teachers in San Francisco (in both public schools and private schools) who are paid way less than 200K.
- konschubert 3y agoMy impression from HN was that people were not very happy with the quality of the teachers in SF. But maybe I am wrong.
- rahimnathwani 3y agoThe performance of public schools in SF isn't solely (maybe not even mainly) related to the quality of the teachers. Even if it were solely to do with the teachers, this doesn't mean that all (or even the majority) of teachers are bad. Even if we're the case that all teachers in SF are bad, this would be more likely to do with the hiring standards (e.g. you have to have gone to teaching college) and firing standards (LIFO), than to do with salaries offered to newly-hired teachers.