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[scot47]

http://ideas.ted.com/teachers-open-up-about-the-mostly-lousy-economics-of-their-dream-job/

[Nemu_Yoake]

"It is a calling, not a job."

'nough said.

[scot47]

Tell that to teachers in Eastern Europe on 200 Euros a month.

[buravirgil]

Markets can be hell on so many people. It's difficult to single out a profession and not exclude so much, but nurses and teachers (traditionally filled by women) are treated with something akin to disdain and it's driven by male privilege. And that's an incomplete, liberal framing...few doctors are happy with the pressures they're enduring.

I'm intrigued by performance metrics because they're descriptive, but I've seen them abused...neo-cons on both sides of the pond have shattered the conventions of healthcare, and education is about half way done...

The endeavor of caring for people is poorly served when measured as a commodity, but that's the agenda and has been since the 1970s. When redistribution grows a middle class, the carrot is in effect and optimism and sentiment abounds...when that redistribution contracts and disparity is increased, out comes the stick and the cycle is just that, repeating.

Productivity keeping pace with population growth is more reactive than planned, but more people have more stuff in their hands than at any time before...and it's always been that way, no?

[Nemu_Yoake]

[santi84]

I have two jobs here in Canada. The first is the "dream job", teaching survival English and literacy to refugees. I get paid fairly well ($30-40/hour) for a whopping 3-5 hours per week at best. The second is not the "dream job", doing 1:1 classroom support for ELL students in a K-12 setting. It makes up the other 32-35 hours at half the other wage. In terms of TESL in North America, I'm not doing bad, but it is a slow climb.