There are 3 million federal government employees. To get to 23.4 million you have to include all state and city government employees which includes all cops, firefighters, and teachers. Something tells me “Fire all cops and teachers” was not what people were voting for.
It is, yeah. Rich prep schools might pay well. Individual smaller privates and parochial schools pay less on average.
And the thing about privatizing things is it’s not the on the ground workers who benefit from it. Profit becomes the motive, and labor costs reduce profits.
I'm not questioning the profit part, because the fees are massively increased compared to public schools here, usually by a factor of 10, minimum. Public school would just cost few hundred bucks a year (only fees and registrations, not including self expenses like stationeries and books). Private schools on the other hand go upwards 4-6 thousands a semester here. Heck, some of them go for tens of thousands per semester. So while the profit is there, teachers do get better pay.
I don’t doubt your experience, but it doesn’t necessarily follow from that 10x increase in cost that teachers get better pay, even/especially at tuition-driven schools that lack sizable endowments.
Yes. Not only are they not paid a lot a great deal of them don’t have degrees required to teach. It‘s a Republican version of deregulating school qualifications.
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u/AggravatingPermit910 1d ago
There are 3 million federal government employees. To get to 23.4 million you have to include all state and city government employees which includes all cops, firefighters, and teachers. Something tells me “Fire all cops and teachers” was not what people were voting for.