Schoolteachers (in the USA, anyway) get paid next to nothing, and frequently have to buy classroom supplies out of pocket because their school system doesn't have the budget to buy them.
Nobody becomes a schoolteacher to get rich.
Nobody becomes a schoolteacher to get rich.
People do whatever they can for a paycheck —some do it out of altruism, sure, but some do it because it’s what they can do.
There was a book about this once, Harrison Bergeron.
Seems like with population growth, we are trying to educate more and more kids, and unlike in the past, we dont just discard that parts that would be expensive or difficult.
In the past, we ignored the problem so it wasnt factored into budgets, head counts. There needs to be more money overall for education. It returns more than $1 for every $1 invested over the long term.
Leave them behind and underfunded like in the past? Lock them up?
Closing institutions insteading of reforming and modernizing them for these sorts of people was indeed a mistake.