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by rayiner on Thursday October 15, 2020 @10:48PM
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If you mean “school fiscal responsibility” and not “educational funding” then say that. They are two different things with different solutions.
Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig...
by mattigames on Thursday October 15, 2020 @11:05PM
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Ask anyone what they think "educational funding" is and they pretty much will all mention teacher's wages among other things. The single most important thing to get good education is good educators, and to get good educators you need good wages, but I'm pretty sure you already knew that so you are just nitpicking about the exact definition of those words.
Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig...
by rayiner on Friday October 16, 2020 @02:46AM
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US teachers are paid well above the OECD average: https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/teachers-salaries.htm. (OECD figures are usually adjusted for purchasing power in each country.)
Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig...
by mattigames on Friday October 16, 2020 @04:20AM
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That's what they make after 15 years experience, the actual average for all teachers is much lower[0] (it is $38.761), one cause is that about 30% of teachers leave the profession less than 5 years later[1]; for example the average pay for a teacher in NY is 45K, one of the most expensive places to live in the US. According to the OECD itself teachers on the US have one of the longest working hours[3] in the world, this unpaid overtime means money lost due being unable to have a second job or due incurring in costs directly related to lack of time (e.g. eating out thanks to having no time to prepare lunch); the cause of this overtime seems to be lack of prep time in the instructional day as teachers are expected to be actively teaching for most of the day, and are provided woefully few hours for planning, correcting, and collaboration [4]
[0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/teacher-pay...
[1] https://www.epi.org/publication/u-s-schools-struggle-to-hire...
[2] https://www.bestplaces.net/cost_of_living/city/new_york/new_...
[3] https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/teaching-hours.htm
[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/9m1d7k/why_do_ame...
[0] https://amp.reddit.com/r/teaching/comments/528u9w/teachers_o...
[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/time.com/longform/teaching-in-a...