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Originally Posted by Mr. Blonde
...you realize almost, if not all of us went to public school, right? How can you say something this disrespectful?
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Someone mentioned this before, but didn't put all the pieces together.
We need teachers, and we need good ones. Teaching shouldn't be a shit job.
But teaching is a shit job, so it attracts idealists (not bad) or shit employees who are attracted to a shit job(bad). But you won't get the steller employees. Who would waste 4 years of college education and the rest of their lives to work such a shit job? Probably not the guy who could walk into a top law firm in Washington, the kid with the work ethic to do 2 years on Wall Street and move on the Harvard Business School, or the tech guru who moves to Cali to work for Google. To the most skilled in our labor pool, teaching is just so much below them. So I can't feel bad for the people who work so hard to accept such a shit job, they should know it's shit.
This is entirely different from saying that teaching should be a shit job. I think it should be a very much non-shit job. A high paying and competitive industry. Because, as the economists say, education has "postive externalities."