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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a nurse. I think nurses and teachers (and other professions that are not as well compensated as some of the DCUM professions) wouldn't complain as much if our salaries had kept up with inflation.  No one goes into these professions to make loads of money, but you want to be able to make a living.  
As far as demand/supply.  Maybe that works more in the corporate world?  In places with nursing shortages, they are not increasing wages.  They hire travel nurses (who are $$ but cheaper than hiring staff with benefits long tern), they push the limits on staffing to dangerous levels. Some hospitals have began to hire foreign born nurses so they do not have to spend as much money.

As far as teaching, is it really a supply/demand issue? [b]I mean Florida is hiring people without any qualifications to teach. [/quote][/b]

Those people are teaching. They are warm bodies brought in to babysit because kids can't sit in a classroom unattended.[/quote]
That's my point. If it was supply/demand, then you would be increasing salaries according to some of the arguments on this thread.  But no, apparently that's not feasible. Instead, hire incompetent replacements.  
In order to make teaching more appealing to students and really good students-you do have to increase salaries. Period.  The let's just appeal to teachers/nurses sense of duty and call the professions a "calling" is BS.  It's something used by the powers at be to not address fair compensation.  [/quote]

We’re getting to a critical point, however, and those powers-that-be can no longer refer to it as a “calling” in an effort to exploit. Teachers have had enough and they’re leaving. That’s why it’s becoming a supply and demand issue. The demand will be great when classrooms are empty. These half-measures (lowering requirements, etc) will not work. Districts will have to respond by correcting past errors. That’ll look like better compensation and more reasonable workloads. Unfortunately, it’ll take time for us to hit rock bottom before this will happen. Millions of kids will suffer first.[/quote]
PP you are responding to and I agree the it's calling BS is  not working. Covid made nurses realize we are expendable.  And the nurses coming into the field in their 20s don't buy into the sacrifice oneself for a job non-sense.  Most of them leave in less than 2 years to be NPs or CRNAs (which is scary because you need nurses with experience at the bedside).  I would hope that the powers at be would come to their senses but I doubt it.  They don't give a crap if it hurts patients or generations of children. It's all about the money.  No matter how many nurses/teachers we need, it doesn't matter.  There is no profit to be made out of most of us. [/quote]

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