teachers: not what they used to be

Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema crdbronx at erols.com
Sun Apr 29 11:50:48 PDT 2001


I suppose you're right. At times I've tried to think that way, but must have failed. Is it because I lack the mystical gift? Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema

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



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