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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
But paying teacher's more is not an answer.
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I disagree. On the other hand, I think HOW you pay teachers can be more important than what you pay them. We ought to be paying SOME teachers more.
We pay them in lock-step based on seniority because they are public employees and we learned a long time ago that public employment can easily be corrupted if you don't implement those kinds of protections. And the base for teachers salaries was set back in a time when most teachers were women and there was an assumption it was not just a second but a secondary income.
We ought to be negotiating very different deals for teachers than we have today.
