RE: Trump versus Clinton?
March 11, 2016 at 6:10 pm
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2016 at 6:24 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 11, 2016 at 3:44 pm)Alex K Wrote: The idea that Teachers should be paid badly in order to be available to the general populace is ludicrous. I knew more physics than my AP high school physics instructor, and that was at a damn good school - because they still could only afford a failed oil prospecting engineer. Teachers, of all things, simply aren't something that should have to be bought by the general populace. This little bit of socialism would do America some good, believe me.
Should? Should? They are. We want public education, we have it. We only want to spend x on public education, that's what we do. X can only go so far......hence teachers don't get the big bucks, or the raises. There's no -should- about any of this. -Should- doesn't change why we do it, or the consequences of how we do it. If teachers priced themselves beyond our means to pay, then education suffers. As healthcare suffered, for example, from being priced far above and away from our means to pay.
Whether we agree with the manner in which it's done (I hate the "you're supposed to do it for love of the children" song and dance for obvious reasons) it;s something we do, not for no reason, and not even for a bad reason. Some professions are under this sort of manipulation, others are not. I think we can do a better job, but it has nothing to do with teachers deserving anything for being teachers, specifically, or what we -should- pay teachers.
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