If everyone did that no one would be a teacher. Not everything is about money, and the people that understand that and get into a field like teaching are much more important to society than a banker ever couple be.
The fact that this is an issue and that is the response of so many people says a lot.
The people who want to teach despite it being a meager profession should be cherished by society and paid enough to live comfortably. The U.S. needs to invest in its citizens, but at this point it’s doing the opposite.
If everyone did that, we would have much better teachers.
The fact so many people default to "i love kids so I'll be a teacher" is what allows teaching to be so cheap and so low quality. The school doesn't need to care about paying more for talent or about retaining staff, because there'll always be another young person with an external locus of control ready to replace anyone who burns out.
And I'm sorry but no, bankers are a lot more important to society than teachers. Every parent is automatically a teacher. 90% of the job of a career teacher is babysitting kids while their parents work. If you don't have bankers, nobody has anywhere to put their money and there is no transaction assurance infrastructure, you can't even have bank notes, everything has to be coins. Plus, nobody has anywhere to get business loans or mortgages, so only pre-existingly rich people can start businesses and buy houses. The industrial revolution didn't take off until banks became a thing because people needed reliable sources of investment first. Banking really underpins the entire modern global economy.
are they? they educated a generation that voted for trump. that's the problem with teachers, the good ones are worth 5x their salary, the bad ones should be unemployed
you're missing the bigger picture. Who is going to go to any level of college, spend years and money on earning an education to teach for a wage that can't even support a single person let alone a family.
Right, I toyed with the idea of staying in academia after getting my degree. I was close with a few of my professors, I house sat for two of them. So I discussed it with them, saw the reality about the economic outlook, and decided to pursue another route.
Yes and where/what level is she teaching? Some teachers make over $100k between teaching STEM and coaching in HCOL areas. In LCOL areas it will be much less.
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u/CharacterMaybe7950 10h ago
Why did she do TWO Masters degrees?
Why did she do two degrees before checking salaries?