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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND_a8rA67VA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND_a8rA67VA Until schools are palaces, and teachers earn high six figures, I have no
by VikingCoder 14y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND_a8rA67VA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND_a8rA67VA
Until schools are palaces, and teachers earn high six figures, I have no problem with 1) teachers earning extra income, by 2) sharing knowledge with other teachers.
If you want to make the world a better place, then argue that all teachers should have a budget to buy lesson plans from places like this.
...so that they can focus their time and energy on the students who need help, rather than on creating lesson plans, over and over again, all across the country, for the same topics.
- twoodfin 14y agoI like The West Wing, too, but what evidence is there that requiring teachers to meet the same professional standards as, say, doctors would actually be worth the cost to society and their time and effort? Remember that even with what they pay now, teaching positions are in high demand. Quadruple what teachers earn, and you'll have even more demand. How are you to be sure you're getting what you're paying for? In medicine and law, that's achieved through a series of very expensive gate keepers. In any event, I think it would be great if a young hotshot from Harvard could be paid $90,000 to start at some godawful but trying to improve school, with a 50% bonus potential if his students show improvement. But the unions would never allow such a program.