Similar to math teachers and programming. Most great math teachers can easily convert to at least mediocre programmers. And that translates to a 3x+ salary increase on day 1. I know people who converted.
How does academia compete?
How does academia compete?
Pay more, or offer enough other perks to entice employees. Teachers already have a massive perk in the fact that they work ~1/3rd fewer days than other jobs. That's a great draw, if you can offer good enough compensation to get over the "not making enough money to live a comfortable life" threshold.
If people will risk their lives as cold-water crab fisherman for the right price, there's certainly a price to put up with highschoolers.
Teachers probably don't want to run ice cream trucks
I mean we should. But good luck convincing.
Given this knowledge, it's hard to you comments like this any differently than comments from googlers talking about how fulfilling it would be to work a construction job or romanticize pre-industrial Society from a downtown penthouse
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39697025 is the ref for my "3x".
You don't have to beholden unless you want to.
Figure it out.
And who said anything about little brats as clients?
Go for big brats.
You don't have to be (or feel?) beholden, I meant. Typo.
We can create our own such society.
Wanna sign up?
Refs:
Robinson Crusoe (book).
The Swiss Family Robinson (book).
I read both of them as a kid.
The USA (country).
A lot of teacher salary problems come from idle retirees outvoting children on personalised social care vs mass school funding. There is no reason for children to have absolutely no representation in government.
We don't need to triple teacher salaries. We need to give teachers better tools so they can teach material they don't know, same as how managers can manage employees.
We also don't need to stop private industry, we just need to open their work to benefit society as a whole.
How do universities compete? They can't, but they don't need to right now, because they've got a large existing stock of employees that have heavily invested themselves in the academic enterprise. That's a problem for a decade from now, but few administrators think ten weeks into the future, much less ten years. They'll still have a plentiful supply of humanities faculty, so at least that 10% of the university will be okay.