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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No profession is underpaid.  All professions operate under supply and demand.

You individually might feel like you are underpaid.  If you are switch careers to a job that is in higher demand with a higher salary.[/quote]

I don’t know if it’s as simple as this. There is no completely “free-market” supply and demand when there are so many interferences and artifices that affect the environment.

Teacher salaries are affected by teachers’ unions and bloated self-serving administrations among other things.
This means that the more difficult to fill positions cannot increase the salary in order to attract more applicants, so the worse schools have higher turnover, which in turn negatively affects those schools.

Personally I believe we need many more male teachers at all levels, but Union rules would not allow higher pay for that. And better quality teachers across the board.[b] Now that women have many more options, smart women are not concentrated in teaching anymore. [/b]We’ll see how it pans out with AI, DOGE et al, and the loss of “laptop jobs”. We may find more willing high quality candidates for teaching.[/quote]

There is something to this. Growing up in a comfortable UMC family in the 80s-90s, so many of the moms were teachers, either at private or good public schools. The dads were doctors, lawyers, bankers, corporate executives while the moms were teachers and nurses, though there were a few who were also doctors/lawyers but they were a distinct minority. Many of the moms taught school while putting husbands through med/law schools, took a decade or 15 years off to raise kids, then went back to teaching. But today? All the doctors/lawyers are married to other doctors/lawyers/senior corp executives. Not teachers. And the kids of teachers I knew growing up did not become teachers. Of my entire class from a prep school, I can think of one who became a teacher while we have several professors. [/quote]

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