Re: Debate: Teachers Wages
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There should be no argument that teachers contribute a great deal to society. Teachers shape the leaders of tommorow. Sports athletes well they entertain us...but their overall contributions to society are much less. Therefore the extreme pay grade differential just seems ridiculous.
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If teachers do contribute so much to society (I"m not argueing with you, I believe they do) then they should have no problem getting paid a good salary by private schools.
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and yet private school pay is lower than publics.
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You are comparing apples to oranges. You are assuming pay for a teacher in an entirely privatized system will stay the same (or less) then what teachers that work for private schools are getting paid.
And I'm still waiting for your reasoning as to why ending public schools and leaving it to the free market wouldn't be better then public.
Even if it turned out teachers get paid less then what they get aid for now, it would just mean that they have less value then what me and you thought. If we live in a society where what you learn and how you did in highschool matters (which I believe and I'd assume you do to) then people would be willing to pay schools an apt amount of money to make a profit, and be able to pay teachers their respective value to teach their kids.
Threatening people with jail time if they don't hand over money for a crappy system when they may not get anything from it anyway is not the way to make the best product. Do you disagree?
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