>> If pay was results-oriented; teachers would be paid the rough equivalent of a teen-age babysitter. >>
And the irony is, if we went to a full choice school system, then that would be the equivalent of “free agency” for teachers - which would be a boon to the good ones.
But who fights that tooth and nail? The teachers’ own unions. That’s proof right there that as a group, they are economically ignorant.
(as are the pupils they teach as well...)
...so we have children that can’t make change, but they sure now how to argue the ‘rights’ of homosexuals with Presidential candidates...