This is a huge subject, impossible to cover in one post, but I would be more than happy to pay the good teachers twice what they’re making.
Teachers are soooo constrained by cultural marxist bean-counter BUREAUCRATS and administrators, it’s a wonder they maintain their sanity.
I get it, I really do about “the industry”...
I’m suggesting conservatives should focus on the ADMINISTRATORS AND FACELESS BUREAUCRATS.
NOT teachers.
It’s a win win.
- PR value: conservatives avoid the “mean-spirited” meme.
- it strikes against the REAL PROBLEM...those who have used the industry to set themselves up for comfort. They don’t actually do anything, except enforce their stupid “directives” etc. FIRE THE LOT OF THEM!
It is a huge subject, but by free market reality principles, teachers are over paid for one simple reason: there are a lot of folks who can do it and a lot who are willing to do it for far less. You could staff a huge percentage of the work force with business people and other professionals who would love to teach part time probably gratus. I know I would and the kids would learn more about business in one lecture of mine than they do now K-12.
And I know plenty of other professionals as well who would.
The problem is we have invented a “profession” where one was not needed.
Teaching is really imparting life experiences, and the adults in our society with the least “real life” experiences are our “teaching professionals.”
We home school our kids. We have made a ton of mistakes and we do it in a couple hours a day, and all our kids are minimum three years ahead of grade level and usually much more.
It ain’t that hard, but we’ve made it hard.
where do you think administrators come from?
They are former teachers.
They are asked to manage an unmanageable bunch without the power of rewarding excellence, or firing poor teachers.
Teachers unions “are” the teachers.