05-14-2008, 10:37 PM
Quote:So, no, pop star is not more valuable than teacher, but since the government and the unions control education here we may never know what people might pay for well educated children. I know some people who pay $15,000 per student per year for a private high school. So that would be $83 per day per pupil and figure 25 kids per teacher per day, so that amounts to $10,375 per week, or $375,000 for the 25 students for 2 semesters. There would be some overhead for building, books, and administration of course but still, there is no reason that teachers couldn't make into 6 figures if education were run more like business.
Correction: SOME teachers could make into 6 figures. Fact is, the amount of people that can pay $15,000 per student per year for any school is ridiculously small and not a very good example of how well teachers could be doing as a whole.
You don't believe in class warfare, yet the quickest way you will ever get there is to capitalize education. The educated vs. The uneducated masses. I suppose there is a capitalistic solution though, just keep building McDonalds and Starbucks so all the uneducated people can work there and just sell each other double cheeseburgers. There is a bumper sticker somewhere in there but for the life of me i can't find it.