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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Well, your 2nd and 3rd point applies to everyone, and many in the private sector have taken big pay cuts and haven't seen increases in wages either. This is more a society problem than a teachers problem.
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Exactly. So we have a public sector spending problem, on the aggregate. Front line teachers, in my opinion, are not a major source of that issue in Alberta.
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Your first point relates to under-staffing, which could be addressed better by reducing pay to all teachers so more could be hired, thus decreasing the load and stress on current teachers who would be more willing to work in a better environment for less pay. Paying teachers more doesn't fix the issues, it just rewards them for having to deal with the suckage.
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Agreed here as well (edit: with the exception of the reduction in pay part). I think the biggest issue with the public sector (education specific) is that there is far too much administrative bloat, combined with the inefficiency of having the process overseen by elected trustees with dubious (at best) executive level experience. It results in lost money and inefficient deployment of resources.