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When you overpay teachers, people who hate teaching, and hate being teachers, will become teachers for the money. Is a good idea to select the people who hate
by EtienneDeLyon 5mo ago
When you overpay teachers, people who hate teaching, and hate being teachers, will become teachers for the money.
Is a good idea to select the people who hate teaching to become teachers?
- mikeocool 5mo agoYeah, why would we pay top dollar for top talent and then hold that talent to high standards? That certainly doesn’t work in any other profession.
- EtienneDeLyon 5mo agoIf you are paying top dollar for top talent, then you are not overpaying anyone. If you can read, thank a teacher!
- OccamsMirror 5mo agoWhen you overpay CEOs, people who hate leading, and hate being CEOs, will become CEOs for the money. Is a good idea to select the people who hate leading to become CEOs?
- jimmygrapes 5mo agoYes
- AndrewKemendo 5mo agoYou say that as though it’s an option CEO is selected by the investors for whoever will side with the investors 100% of the time over every other group including employees What you suggest would subvert this and so it won’t and can’t happen
- seangrogg 5mo agoThis was far more of an option in the 1980s and earlier; a CEO being compensated 20-30x a line employee was pretty standard around then; now it's closer to 250-300x. I think there's more optionality than we may assume, we've just left the structural incentives that drive that difference in place.
- codegrappler 5mo agoWe call this new movement “involuntary CEO”. Bob you’re now it.
- choilive 5mo agoAbsolutely dumb take. There are plenty of very bright and talented people that would have made excellent teachers but chose different career paths because - surprise surprise - the pay is better.
- class3shock 5mo agoWhen you underpay teachers, people who hate teaching, and hate being teachers, will become teachers because all the people that had better options did something else.
- platevoltage 5mo agoAnd then you will have people who absolutely love teaching, and are willing to live in poverty to do so, speckled around that cess pool of mediocrity. It reminds me of high school actually.
- EtienneDeLyon 5mo agoThat means overpayment is wrong and underpayment is wrong. Teachers should be paid the correct amount, no more and no less.
- xigoi 5mo agoI love how it took three comments to arrive at a tautology.
- bloqs 5mo agoThis is true of every single job. Teachers are high in big five trait agreeableness which means they typically don't negotiate on their own behalf
- RhysU 5mo agoTeachers usually outsource negotiations to their unions and therefore largely cannot negotiate on their own behalf, even if they wanted to.
- platevoltage 5mo agoYou made an assertion that is based in fantasy, and then asked a question based on this silly assertion. Just wow.