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Re:How Teachers Came to Be So Underpaid in America on Friday September 14, 2018 @04:42PM (#17990763)
You’re using one normalized stat to come to a conclusion of “not bad”?

Many teachers get $0 or a pittance for supplies and have to spend from their own salary so other people’s kids to have access to learning activities and materials.

They’re spending their days dealing with a room full of emotionally selfish brats. You think they grade all that homework from 8-3? Nope. Many spend dozens of hours working outside the classroom.

Meanwhile, I’ve worked with dozens of coders who contribute jack squat, but earn &100k+.

Coders who often could be replaced with a few git clone ops and a Squarespace front end if companies weren’t obsessed with re-inventing the wheel, or over fetishing their web ui which really just follows one of 6 common looks.

Quite simply our economics around who gets paid are effed.

There are few tech folks that couldn’t be replaced by thousands of other workers who are just as capable at churning out CRUD app after CRUD app

Smart and capable people that might be interested in teaching the next generation if the pay didn’t suck given the expectations put on them