It Will Take More Than $60K Salaries to Solve the Teacher Shortage

Re:It Will Take More Than $60K Salaries to Solve the Teacher... by funstuff007 on Saturday March 11, 2023 @08:53PM (#35115482)

Without increasing student to teacher ratios, this problem is effectively unsolvable. It's Baumol's cost disease writ large.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect

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Re:It Will Take More Than $60K Salaries to Solve the Teacher... by casefields on Saturday March 11, 2023 @09:40PM (#35115856)

Considerations On Cost Disease: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...

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Re:It Will Take More Than $60K Salaries to Solve the Teacher... by afpx on Sunday March 12, 2023 @08:22AM (#35119251)

I have a student in a school district that spends 24k per student. My daughter's class has 14 people in it. And, they have teacher's assistants. You would expect that this is the ideal public school, right?

Unfortunately, her class is 60% immigrant and none speak English. Both of her teachers spend 100% of their helping time attending to the students who can't speak English.

I don't blame the immigrants or the school. The school system just hasn't adjusted for the new normal.

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Re:It Will Take More Than $60K Salaries to Solve the Teacher... by bitlax on Sunday March 12, 2023 @12:14PM (#35121926)

The "problem" being referred to here is teacher pay, not academic achievement, and the OP is stating that increasing --not decreasing-- the number of students per teacher would be one potential solution.

But all that aside, how many years do you anticipate your daughter will be in this type of environment before the "school system adjusts to the new normal?"

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