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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s all supply vs demand.

Are teachers in Mississippi underpaid at like 30k a year? Absolutely.

Is an individual teacher making 30k in Mississippi underpaid? Maybe not. If we tripled the pay to 90k it’s more likely that the 30k teacher should be out of a job as the talent pool would increase and we would hire better teachers.

So even a teacher in Virginia making 100k who “thinks” they should make 200k May not be able to keep their job if we were fair about keeping it meritocratic. Even if they keep their jobs it would likely result in the majority of their coworkers losing their jobs if we are being fair.[/quote]

Right, if we announced that in 8 years all new teacher will make $1M a year, what would happen? People that would be teachers under the current salary structure would be almost all replaced by more talented/skilled candidates. The teaching ranks would be filled with 4.0GPA Ivy League PHD graduates. The state school graduates with a 3.8 wouldn’t even get interviews at the toughest schools to teach let alone a suburban job.[/quote]

Wait… you think all it takes to be a good teacher is to be an Ivy League graduate with a 4.0? You know absolutely nothing about teaching. Nothing. Teaching is just as much an art as it is about content knowledge. You need to be smart, but you also need to be able to transfer that knowledge to others. An Ivy League degree, a 4.0 GPA… neither of those means you naturally have the personality and other intangible skills to be a teacher. Think of your good ones. They knew how to engage, motivate, run a class. You can put people through college coursework to theoretically look at how to do this, but not everybody can actually recreate this in a true classroom.

Under your absurd $1M model, we’d have a ton of people apply and a ton of people wash out because they can’t hack it. Which, incidentally, already happens since burn-out is so high. It would certainly work as a plan because we’d have more candidates, but you’re wrong about who would make it through. [/quote]

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