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JeffKeryk said:
Yes, because more people would be drawn to the career. I could teach reading and mathematics better than that but would never have considered teaching as a career due to poor compensation.

I saw what the teachers drove in junior high and high school.
I value education; it saved my bacon. I also tutored a few youngsters in Math back in the day. This was a highly rewarding experience.

Something is wrong if a we are getting those results. It is probably more complex than teacher compensation; it sounds systematic.
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I believe it's students and parents who don't take education seriously who are the problem for the most part.
 
pbm said:
I believe it's students and parents who don't take education seriously who are the problem for the most part.
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That's certainly a component; it has to be. But what about kids without parents, latch key kids, or parents with no education themselves?
I can tell you a couple of teachers have made an everlasting mark on my life; they helped carry me through my homeless days. Their words carried a tiny ray of hope.
 
pbm said:
I read an article a couple of years ago which said that in Baltimore there were NO students graduating who were proficient in math and that the average child entering high school was reading at a 3rd to 4th grade reading level (social promotion). Are you suggesting that paying teachers better would change those results?
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I wonder how much effort those parents are putting into their own child's education too. It seems the trend for a little bit was teacher's to act like parents too, which imo they shouldn't have too.
 
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JeffKeryk said:
Our teachers shape generations, yet we poorly value them.
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Which ones? The propaganda spewing ones or the very rare, non-propaganda spewing ones? Which ones do you want to pay more? A good number of them have dug their own grave in the respect arena.
 
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Mainia said:
Which ones? The propaganda spewing ones or the very rare, non-propaganda spewing ones? Which ones do you want to pay more? A good number of them have dug their own grave in the respect arena.
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I've said it before, I'm the product of a public school education, my teachers were pretty good. I don't recall any propoganda, and I gravitated towards science and English. The SATs were big back then and we didn't need any tutors to be able to ace the exam on the first try. Did it matter? Does it now? Stephen would answer, if he only knew how.
 
Pew said:
I wonder how much effort those parents are putting into their own child's education too. It seems the trend for a little bit was teacher's to act like parents too, which imo they shouldn't have too.
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What appears to be a failure imho today, is no different than that state trooper who pulled over a car in Phila for no reggie, no inspection, and illegal tints. That trooper was pulled off the road and disciplined. He violated the motor vehicle code in Phila where cars are not to be pulled over for those reasons.

If a public school teacher so much as hurts a kid's feelings in 2024 and probably at least since 2014, they're fired. So more than ever, yes, parents have to step up. Before I had a kid the GMC shuttle driver was a retired high school principal. He said it's parents, the teachers, and the school system, all working together if the kid is gonna succeed. I was talking to a young kid yesterday at my co. and he knew all about the CFA exam and he worked at the co where my wife did (maybe #1 maybe #2 but #1 or #2 largest mutual fund co), and he generally seemed bright. Contrast it to my bro's work place where people are literally putting in 1-3 hours per day and wfh and I feel the kid I'm speaking of has a different mentality.
 
doitmyself said:
Dental Hygienist is the one that jumped out at me. Associate degree. Relatively good work surroundings IF you are ok with being in people's mouths all day. 99k and probably good benefits. Can pick and choose your work locale anywhere around the country.
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Since there is always a catch:
IF you are ok with being in people's mouths all day
 
zzyzzx said:
Since there is always a catch:
IF you are ok with being in people's mouths all day
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In people's mouths all day you say?

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Growing up, dental hygienists and hair cutters/stylists tended to be young, attractive, females.

Maybe in 2024, a teenage boy is not allowed to make those observations, but I did.

That's not the case today. Wonder how that can be explained.
 
doitmyself said:
Dental Hygienist is the one that jumped out at me. Associate degree. Relatively good work surroundings IF you are ok with being in people's mouths all day. 99k and probably good benefits. Can pick and choose your work locale anywhere around the country.

I'm gonna let my grand kids know about this.
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Downside of hygienist and even dentist is it’s a physical job and your body has an issue you are done. Happened to my dentist thankfully 55 so retired and one of his hygienists with unrelated work injury.
 
andrew_j said:
Downside of hygienist and even dentist is it’s a physical job and your body has an issue you are done. Happened to my dentist thankfully 55 so retired and one of his hygienists with unrelated work injury.
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dentists have a rather hard job,their back and neck get a real work out,in fact my dentist has a hunch back and neck issues that may force him into retirement because his job.
 
andrew_j said:
Downside of hygienist and even dentist is it’s a physical job and your body has an issue you are done. Happened to my dentist thankfully 55 so retired and one of his hygienists with unrelated work injury.
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My hygienist hurt his back and was out for a week and needed reschedule lots of patients.

I’ve said before healthcare is blue collar work.
 
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Is that your employer or you saw these jobs online ?

Good jobs for a BITOG member.
 
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