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Re:Why Must You Pay Sales People Commissions? by boomboomsubban on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @10:21AM (#15227453)
Replacing one teacher in the bottom 5% with an average one got the student $250k more over their lifetime. So the average teacher is generating around $135,000 more than the poor teacher.

And equating teachers to engineers makes no sense, I've met dozens of people in some engineering school to make money.

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Re:Why Must You Pay Sales People Commissions? by selectodude on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @11:19AM (#15227981)
That seems questionable. In a lot of school systems, the best teacher may be the difference between a kid ending up in jail or not, but kids that are flirting with that line aren't going to be particularly successful on aggregate. And American society loves sending black kids to jail. So, what's the value add there?

It's so much more complex than that.

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Re:Why Must You Pay Sales People Commissions? by boomboomsubban on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @03:02PM (#15230609)
Yes, this is talking about the "average class." Individual circumstances vary in both directions, that doesn't make it questionable. Though, the difference between going to jail or not pretty quickly adds up to the 250k number.

Yes, this is way more complex than my two minute writeup of a small chunk of a 94 page paper.

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