Doug Henwood wrote:
> Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema wrote:
>
> >How much of this is the outward expression of the fact that teachers still
> >get paid much as they were a generation ago when they were women who
> >couldn't get into better paying professions? How much of this "decline" in
> >the quality of teachers is the result of feminism's having opened those
> >door?
>
> You're not thinking like an economist. If teachers' relative pay has
> declined, it can only be because their productivity has also
> declined. People get paid according to their marginal product,
> because, well, just because.
>
> Doug