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How About The Novel Idea of Increasing Teachers Pay


Increasing teachers pay and more parent at home involvement will help to solve some issues and could be more proactive then just the idea of parent-trigger schools.

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increasing pay will help in some cases, but the parent involvement is much more of a factor.


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Increasing pay helps to attract newer teachers into the field, but does nothing for the lazy tenured teacher they showed on this movie.

The one who was basically sliding by and the other teachers had to teach "2 years" of stuff in their one year since they didn't learn anything from her.

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I agree. There is a lot of district-by-district variety when it comes to compensation. Teachers want to be adequately compensated, and we want to have the ability to raise our own families, own our own homes, pay off our debts, etc. I don't expect to be paid the same as a CEO or a doctor. And to be sure - I can;t think of any of my colleagues who think that pay is a motivator to be an excellent teacher.

But having the support to make my job *not* be unnecessarily difficult? There is no price you can put on that!

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It depends on your district. Live in a good, well-to-do district, the taxes are higher which goes to paying good salaries to teachers. In low-income/poor districts, they can't afford good teachers. And even if they could, most good teachers wouldn't want to teach in some of these schools because they are terrible environments with terrible kids and terrible parents.


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Why pay for poor performance? If they were deserving, they can already join the rich public schools in the suburbs and private schools. Says something about inner city school teachers that they teach where they teach.

Either they suck or they are idealists who don't care about money. Either way, I don't see how more pay helps that much.

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You don't see how more pay helps??

You care to explain this philosphy?
You know anyone who wants to be under paid or who has to take their work home with them and not get paid for it.
You think teaching is easy?

Please explain...you think teacher are over paid?
What about the cost of living??

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Teaching is extremely easy, a literal retard can do it. Teaching well is difficult. Teaching without requiring any performance standard only requires physical presence and can be performed by a literal retard.


It is not important to pay public teachers well since even a retard can teach, there is no need to attract talent. Yes, I think public teachers are grossly overpaid. Minimum wage seems fair instead. Perhaps peg it to the average of the fast food wages in each school district.


The above does not apply to public teachers in the suburbs or other districts with very expensive real estate.

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I taught public school for 9 years and come from a family of educators. No one goes into education to get rich, and few teachers leave because of money. What they do leave for is class sizes that are too large, unsupportive parents and administrators, schools that are in disrepair and many other reasons. Under the best of circumstances, teaching a roomful of kids is stressful, and when all the problems I mentioned come into play, it makes it impossible to do well. Sadly, the teachers who care the most are the ones most likely to burn out.

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