Re:How Many People Can Someone Lead?
by munk-a on Sunday September 12, 2021 @10:56PM
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Yea - but maybe for such an important role for society we can actually put up the cash to make it a worthwhile career choice. I've heard the "we don't want teachers who are only in it for the cash" line enough that I want to puke. If you paid enough to attract the leeches legitimate teachers would get them sacked right quick.
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Re:How Many People Can Someone Lead?
by chrisseaton on Sunday September 12, 2021 @11:03PM
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> maybe for such an important role for society we can actually put up the cash to make it a worthwhile career choice
The point was what makes it worthwhile isn't cash.
Cool. But people need to eat and our society (at least in the US) is completely run via cash - you can appeal to higher ideals all you want, but if you're starving out teachers you're going to lose a lot of the good ones that can go into other fields of education and communication.
I think a lot of teachers do value the experience of teaching enough that they'll stick with it through thick and thin - but a lot of folks never even consider teaching due to just how poor the wages are.