Debate: Teachers Wages

[snakekilla88]

It got me thinking...should people get paid for their worth (define worth as contributions to society)?

-Obviously not even close in our society, which allows poker players and sport stars to make millions while teachers comparatively get paid squat. That’s not to say poker players and sports stars do not work hard for their money, but there is a big difference in the overall contributions to society that each job exhibits....

A common suggestion is-
Teachers should not be paid by the hours they work, but by the grades of the students they teach.

Yet, this level of thinking brings up a lot of problems…

- Some teachers would simply lie, and give their crappy students an A+.
- What if a good teacher gets a lousy group of students
- Geographical location… it’s a known fact children coming from economically stable environments do better then the kids struggling from poverty.

There are a lot of factors, people over look when trying to raise wages. If you raise salaries of underpaid jobs, then other companies would just raise there price on goods and merchandise, etc.. thus accomplishing nothing.

Raising the wages of teachers in general would accomplishe absolutely nothing. It would be more beneficial if teachers were evaluated more closely and often. Bad teachers need to get fired while good teachers need raises. Bottom line, the public school system is like communism (hence why the public school system sucks so bad in America).

At the same time, I bet there are 10000 great and better ideas out there to improve the public school system. Yet, when the measures come to the polls they always fail. Mainly because people who do not have kids will vote against school legislation. In general people refuse to spend tax dollars on issues not directly affecting them. How do we fix this? Any thoughts or comments would greatly be appreciated.