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Originally Posted by btimbit
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Not a hard fast rule, but now that I think about it all the best teachers I had in life are ones that had a different career before getting into education, and had some experience to draw on. Doesn't have to be anything fancy. One Math teacher I had used to be a Finance Manager at a car dealership, he had a working knowledge of how numbers work in the real world vs just what they say in a textbook. I hate and suck at anything to do with numbers, but I enjoyed his classes, did well in them.
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Similar to your anecdote, the two best teachers that I ever had (one in junior high and the other in uni) spent 10-20 years as investment bankers before switching careers.
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Originally Posted by Slava
Except that here we have all spent at least a dozen years in that system. I get your point, I just think its a little off here. I actually think that a lot of the issue isn't the actual wage that teachers get paid. Its the other things like the issues with "bad" teachers who seemingly face no potential of job loss or can't be removed.
Then you pile on the benefits and specifically the defined benefit pension and I think that you have the main issues for the general public. I would hazard a guess that even young teachers don't love that the system allows some slackers to ride through with secure jobs and then we'll be paying for these people for their entire lives.
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They should convert teaching into a regulated profession, akin to law, engineering, doctoring, nursing, etc. Poor teachers will still slip through the cracks, but at least there would be proper regulatory channels to challenge unqualified individuals.