I have always believed that teachers should be paid as much or more as any doctor. Because a doc only focuses on issues as they arise. A teacher is molding a life in a society that parental figures with time and gumption on their hands are few and far between.
“I have always believed that teachers should be paid as much or more as any doctor.”
Not me, and I have given up oodles to teach my kids.
It is way harder to be a doctor.
The incredibly strenuous education to get an MD is extremely tough. None but the brightest, most disciplined and most mentally and emotionally stable can manage.
There has to be a big reward for the incredibly hard education you need to get before you can begin to start to earn - at the belated age of 28 or so.
A person with a decent high school diploma should be capable of teaching at least through junior high. I know I am.
It is not about the value, per se, but the fact that only a few of our healthiest, best educated, most stable people who sacrifice a great deal and delay income for a long time can become an MD.
If there is not a big paycheck at the end of that long hard road, not many will do it.
Whereas many are willing to teach for far less income.
The law of supply and demand works well.
“I have always believed that teachers should be paid as much or more as any doctor. Because a doc only focuses on issues as they arise. A teacher is molding a life in a society that parental figures with time and gumption on their hands are few and far between.”
Personally, the free market setting wages for teachers would be ok with me...but maybe that’s because I’m on this site.