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1 sat \ 3 replies \ @justin_shocknet 15h \ parent \ on: What would you consider a fair wage to be for a teacher? AskSN
The status quo of "Teacher" implies multiple disparate functions but that's also a large part of why the system is broken and expensive
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Curriculum design is where AI and other products offer expertise at scale
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The babysitting element, this is why most kids end up in public schools, parents work to pay taxes to the school system. There will still be caregivers hired by many families of course, or parents taking turns with their friends kids etc, but nevertheless way less specialized or "skilled" in the traditional sense than "teachers".
The 3rd function is basically a facilitator of sorts, like a substitute teacher, little more than a warm body that can follow instructions from the curriculum designer. This is really only a 1.5-2 hour per day job at the most when you extract it from the babysitting, and its not expertise based like the curriculum. Parents doing their own babysitting are the best people for this, their caregiver probably can as well.
The only professionals needed go into the product design, which scales and reduces cost whilst upping quality.
The 3rd function is basically a facilitator of sorts, like a substitute teacher, little more than a warm body that can follow instructions from the curriculum designer.
The sense of teacher that is most optimistically viewed by most, but under a pretty damp blanket.
Leave all of the expertise to ai and the rest to a good caregiver, is what you're saying, but it probably won't play out like this.
The role of a teacher as mentor is much older than the state as you've depicted it. It won't go anywhere when suddenly their 'expertise' can be purchased at a nominally lower cost. Unfortunate as it is, many parents can't be bothered by this aspect of their child's upbringing and would pay for someone better than a "caregiver" whether by taxes or private lessons. That's also to say nothing of pupils who are old enough to have some of their own self-determination.
I understand folks tend to view this topic with rose colored glasses, but yours seems overly pessimistic.
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Master / Apprentice relationships are a whole different thing sure, but for all practical matters references today about teachers are the post-industrial system that prepares kids to be cogs in a factory and have basic literacy to the extent they can follow instructions.
There will always be bespoke things, but then we can't speak in generalities about those like is the supposed purpose of the OP. It's already happening from what I've seen among fellow homeschoolers, people buying curriculum, sometimes that's just books othertimes its apps and online things, or a mix. The care is then insourced, the parent need only pick a curator for the curricula (which is far more effective than the state under any circumstance)
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Where I'm from homeschoolers are the exception, but I'd totally agree that it's the preferred way.
90% of post-industrial era teachers are glorified babysitters, inefficiency doing what a parent is better suited to do.
The other 10% see themselves as masters of a craft, and from what Ive seen really can provide exceptionally more value than the average parent (that is if you cut out all the administrative bloat of running a govt school). AI and other tech definitely tips the scales in favor of parents, but still I think the homeschoolers will remain an exception since parents will always be needed in their own areas of expertise. I could be wrong.
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