Comment 81139

By j (registered) | Posted September 21, 2012 at 15:56:56 in reply to Comment 81127

I'm not messing with you and this is my true belief. I am actually personally an example of an overeducated person who knows very well that additional degrees do nothing for my intellectual ability much less ability to teach. I read lots of Foucault and De Tocqueville and onwards in my degrees and none would give me one iota of assistance in teaching school. Heck some would just tell me that school is a hegemonic construct bent on insidious nationalistic objectives.

Your argument, in contrast, has all the hallmarks of the person you describe (kneejerk, smallminded etc) in that rather than responding to my point you attack the person. If your point were so strong you should just make it. What's the benefit of a graduate degree in a discipline that is not education to teaching kids?

Paying someone more simply for achieving another letter beside their name is ridiculous. You pay people for skills.

Moreover my point is not only that the degrees are not themselves a good enough reason for higher pay, but that unlike other advanced degrees teachers can do exactly one job with it. There is no need to pay them more to avoid them going to more lucrative jobs.

That's not to say you pay them badly; you just pay them as well as other middling salaries; I'd say topping out at $70K would be sufficient.

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