Has there been anything in America that hasn't become super selective and competitive?

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Anonymous wrote:You can be no competitive at anything. Mediocrity is non competitive.

If you want to excel at or be admitted to the top 10% of anything of course it is competitive.

How do you explain politics then? I thought they were all competing to be the most mediocre possible.

Politics attract power-hungry people, not brilliant ones.

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Anonymous wrote:There’s still a shortage of teachers and nurses

Teachers aren’t being paid enough to live in areas with strong public schools. My sister and her husband both work as teachers for FCPS, but their salaries aren’t sufficient to afford a home in a neighborhood with a good school pyramid. As a result, they use my address so their children can attend schools in the Langley pyramid.

So they are liars and you facilitate lying and cheating. How is this a good thing. I hope you get caught.

The only way to raise teacher salary is through supply and demand. When schools cannot get teachers, they will get paid more. A perk in some areas is that teachers can put their kids in the school where they teach, similar to private school. I'm ok with that perk.

Why do teachers create "good school districts" and "bad school districts" in the first place? Maybe teachers don't deserve a good salary. My daughter told me a funny joke the other day, "How do you get straight A's? With a ruler." I laughed, what is a crooked A anyway?

Are you thick? Teachers don't create the "good" or "bad" in the districts, the families that live there and send their kids there do. Good teachers stay in those districts, which leads to lower turnovers, which is better for the schools. They stay because it's easier to teach kids whose parents are really doing all the appropriate parenting at home. Some kids in "bad" districts simply aren't getting the parenting at home that they need to be good students. Some of those students are disruptive to everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:There’s still a shortage of teachers and nurses

Teachers aren’t being paid enough to live in areas with strong public schools. My sister and her husband both work as teachers for FCPS, but their salaries aren’t sufficient to afford a home in a neighborhood with a good school pyramid. As a result, they use my address so their children can attend schools in the Langley pyramid.

So they are liars and you facilitate lying and cheating. How is this a good thing. I hope you get caught.

The only way to raise teacher salary is through supply and demand. When schools cannot get teachers, they will get paid more. A perk in some areas is that teachers can put their kids in the school where they teach, similar to private school. I'm ok with that perk.

You get paid more to teach in certain inner city schools. However lots of teachers choose not to teach in those environments.

That's how it should be then.

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Our school sends 99-100% of its graduates to college. You don’t have to be the valedictorian.

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Anonymous wrote:This is just your lens. We are not a country of scarcity mindset and there are tons of ways to hustle and just live here in a non-competitive (though can be precarious) way.

Wrong.

We are a country of scarcity mindset. Are you new here? So many people fear being poor. When you lose your job you lose your insurance. There is basically zero social safety net. A country that lack scarcity mindset might exist amongst the Scandinavian countries - Norway, Finland, Sweden- maybe Denmark and Netherlands too. Although I know plenty of Dutch who want their shiny things and nice vacations.

You are wrong, kneejerk Nancy. Read up on it before reacting that scarcity means being poor and the opposite is a safety net. Scarcity countries have a mentality that personal gain is only at the expense of others. We don't have that in the West. We make a bigger pie. However, we are sometimes importing this sentiment, which is notable and can lead to feelings of scarcity and competition that people might be experiencing in very specific ways (top schools, top sports- the pie is finite). But in general wealth, land and the ability to work some job any job to not be destitute-- we don't have that. Here's an article if you want to get informed. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/scarcity-mindset-india-capitalism-disguise-amit-gupta-1j5gc

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Anything white collar or related to being middle class is highly selective and competitive. Low pay wages are incredibly easy to come by.

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Anonymous wrote:If you get out of DC and east coast it's not that competitive.

WRONG. It is just as competitive, if not more, on the West Coast, where there is a large segment of Asians.

Rumor has it there is simething between the east coast and the west coast. Of course, I would suggest that you dirty yourself by going there . . .

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Anonymous wrote:You can be no competitive at anything. Mediocrity is non competitive.

If you want to excel at or be admitted to the top 10% of anything of course it is competitive.

How do you explain politics then? I thought they were all competing to be the most mediocre possible.

Don’t be stupid. The Alaric’s are low in politics but the perks like lifetime healthcare and lucrative post-office contracts and influence peddling, are priceless.

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Anonymous wrote:You can be no competitive at anything. Mediocrity is non competitive.

If you want to excel at or be admitted to the top 10% of anything of course it is competitive.

How do you explain politics then? I thought they were all competing to be the most mediocre possible.

Don’t be stupid. The Alaric’s are low in politics but the perks like lifetime healthcare and lucrative post-office contracts and influence peddling, are priceless.

How on earth did you autocorrect salaries to "Alarics"? Are you an historian? How else would Alaric come up!? Fascinating!
--Fan of the Goths and Visigoths

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Teaching. You can be a teacher with pretty much zero prep these days. You just need a 4 yr degree in anything at all.

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Anonymous wrote:There’s still a shortage of teachers and nurses

Teachers aren’t being paid enough to live in areas with strong public schools. My sister and her husband both work as teachers for FCPS, but their salaries aren’t sufficient to afford a home in a neighborhood with a good school pyramid. As a result, they use my address so their children can attend schools in the Langley pyramid.

So they are liars and you facilitate lying and cheating. How is this a good thing. I hope you get caught.

The only way to raise teacher salary is through supply and demand. When schools cannot get teachers, they will get paid more. A perk in some areas is that teachers can put their kids in the school where they teach, similar to private school. I'm ok with that perk.

You get paid more to teach in certain inner city schools. However lots of teachers choose not to teach in those environments.

Where is this? I teach in Baltimore City and teachers aren't paid more to work in certain schools.

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Pornstar

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Anonymous wrote:If you get out of DC and east coast it's not that competitive.

This. Easier to get into an Ivy from the Dakotas than from the coasts. The coasts have a more competitive culture.

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First, it’s the United States. America includes South America, Central America, Canada, etc.
second, the answer is public office. Any goon can run for office and get elected at this point.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s still a shortage of teachers and nurses

Teachers aren’t being paid enough to live in areas with strong public schools. My sister and her husband both work as teachers for FCPS, but their salaries aren’t sufficient to afford a home in a neighborhood with a good school pyramid. As a result, they use my address so their children can attend schools in the Langley pyramid.

So they are liars and you facilitate lying and cheating. How is this a good thing. I hope you get caught.

The only way to raise teacher salary is through supply and demand. When schools cannot get teachers, they will get paid more. A perk in some areas is that teachers can put their kids in the school where they teach, similar to private school. I'm ok with that perk.

You get paid more to teach in certain inner city schools. However lots of teachers choose not to teach in those environments.

Where is this? I teach in Baltimore City and teachers aren't paid more to work in certain schools.

They are observing that Baltimore City pays better than a rural county (maybe Louisa) would.