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It's well known that public education majors are the dumbest students in universities.
What if we turned over the nation's children to those people?
But those dumbest students maybe be the decent students in high school who could get into college.
So while they can’t hack STEM studies they may fit well with the knowledge that is needed to educate children.
Plus education doesn’t pay well. If it paid like being a Wall Street investment banker then the best of the best would go into education.
The author of this article (Dino) said he did not go into teaching for the money and he did not leave teaching because of low pay. He left the public school system for 'political' reasons. Teaching was the best part of his job and every year 'teaching' became a smaller and less important component of his job.
My dad and his friends felt very similarly.
The pay is fine for what the job should be but the job is mostly dealing with unnecessary BS.
I don't think the pay is fine for what the job is, but we don't know what the right pay is either because the market is so distorted by the government. (Even for private school teachers, I believe their pay gets anchored to public school teacher expectations, similar to how Medicare somewhat dictates medical pricing for the healthcare sector as a whole).
All I know is, the reason that our brightest students don't go into teaching is because the profession is low paid and low prestige. I heard that in Korea, teaching is seen as prestigious as law and medicine (with lower pay but better lifestyle), and thus you get a lot of talented people go into teaching.
It's fair to note that it's not all about intelligence, but then you shouldn't make the intelligence comparison between parents and teachers.
In almost all cases, parents care more about their kids' development than a government employee does. Why wouldn't you expect that to overcome the intelligence gap? It's not like parents have to come up with the education materials themselves (just like teachers don't). They can use just as good of teaching materials, and often better, than the schools use.
And what if your parents are as dumb as box of rocks