The fact is that throwing money at the problem in the US could very well work. Why should that young teacher you speak of work their butt off to get on average 68% of the income their counterparts in other countries do? (such as Canada)and who have much better outcomes from the educational system.
Haven't you been listening? We're throwing money at Baltimore, 3x as much as in other jurisdictions in Maryland, and it continues to suck; yet the other jurisdictions--the less funded ones--are light years ahead! How much should the taxpayers throw at a school system like Baltimore? four times? Five?
Nobody becomes a teacher to get rich. They typically know, when studying to be a teacher, that they're going into a profession that's not very highly paid compared to others. That doesn't mean we should see if we can starve them to death for
**** and giggles. But this goes beyond salaries. Some school systems, where they do get paid more, still have teacher shortages because they don't want to put up with the piles of bullshit that are higher in some school districts than in others.
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