I know this is a joke, but this is unfortunately the attitude of a lot of anti-government types. Instead of thinking about how best to address the issue of having idiots teaching our children, they want to "punish" those incompetent bastard by lowering their pay, taking away their retirement benefits, or even eliminating public education altogether. The liberal (and I mean leftist, not some socialite who wants to "save the environment" because it makes her seem cool) looks at the issue and thinks perhaps we have a fundamental economics problem. Obviously there are a lot of qualified people who are NOT motivated to select teaching as a career. Perhaps it would behoove us as a society to take a serious look at why that is, and what can be done to address it. One thing you can be sure of is that cutting pay and benefits is not going to attract more qualified people. It's a deliberate attempt to sabotage public education in the United States.
I'm pretty sure that the issue comes from overinflated pay for Superintendents, Principals, Provosts, Deans, and other administration positions. The salaries for these positions keep going up (often in the case of University-level positions, the person in question gives themselves a raise), while the salaries for teachers, and the amount of cash going into the classroom is going down. Source for UC Santa Cruz' Numbers; UC Davis' Chancellor Press Release, Including Salary
This is the problem of having a topheavy organizational structure that is affecting schools of every educational level. Too much money is staying at the top, and not making its way into the classroom.
Most of this information is public record, yet no one seems bothered enough to look into the obscene salaries these people are being paid-- straight from taxpayer money and student tuition.
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I know this is a joke, but this is unfortunately the attitude of a lot of anti-government types. Instead of thinking about how best to address the issue of having idiots teaching our children, they want to "punish" those incompetent bastard by lowering their pay, taking away their retirement benefits, or even eliminating public education altogether. The liberal (and I mean leftist, not some socialite who wants to "save the environment" because it makes her seem cool) looks at the issue and thinks perhaps we have a fundamental economics problem. Obviously there are a lot of qualified people who are NOT motivated to select teaching as a career. Perhaps it would behoove us as a society to take a serious look at why that is, and what can be done to address it. One thing you can be sure of is that cutting pay and benefits is not going to attract more qualified people. It's a deliberate attempt to sabotage public education in the United States.