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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
People are perfectly willing to start teaching kids for 36k in the states. What are we at in AB? 50k-60k to start? Do we have better teachers or worse kids?
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Significantly better teachers.
I think teachers are fairly compensated for the work they do as a whole. I'm glad we have some data to show work weeks and those numbers are comparable with other professions. Really the union needs to go or the union needs to actively develop a performance based system for evaluating teachers and have at least a 20% difference in pay between the best teachers and worst.
We also should lay off the worst 5% of teachers every five years or so to allow younger teachers into the system.
For evaluation you use average student improvement as compared to peers accounting for demographic and economic factors.