The entire system is completely fucked. It is a socialist system and runs like one. You can be terrible at your job and you will still get the same paycheck as everyone else. There is incentive to NOT try hard because you won't be rewarded for your effectiveness or the extra work you put in. If you do work hard then you will see how the P.E. teacher shows up hungover every day and gets the same paycheck as the best core curriculum teachers in the county.
That really is the central problem that all the other problems revolve around. If it was actually a merit based profession like every other job, then almost all of the problems would go away. We don't need to pay all teachers more, we need to pay bad teachers less and give that money to the effective teachers. It is the teachers unions that make this impossible.
The entire system is completely fucked. It is a socialist system and runs like one. You can be terrible at your job and you will still get the same paycheck as everyone else. There is incentive to NOT try hard because you won't be rewarded for your effectiveness or the extra work you put in. If you do work hard then you will see how the P.E. teacher shows up hungover every day and gets the same paycheck as the best core curriculum teachers in the county.
That really is the central problem that all the other problems revolve around. If it was actually a merit based profession like every other job, then almost all of the problems would go away. We don't need to pay all teachers more, we need to pay bad teachers less and give that money to the effective teachers. It is the teachers unions that make this impossible.