Your thinking is constrained by what you’re accustomed to. The reality is that as time goes on, more and more jobs are going to become obsolete but we’ll continue to need teachers, doctors and nurses. Without them, either we die or society dies. If you closed the tax loopholes, you could easily pay for doctors, nurses and teachers without an issue.
But the reality is we need to pay for more than just them because more and more jobs will cease to exist, so in the long-term, we need to end monetary wealth as a concept.
Double planning time - it’s currently half a day a week, but I’d bring it up to a full day a week, so, yes, you’d need to employ a few more cover teachers.
So then we’re back to making the occupation an attractive one and quality of life is a massive part of that. Nobody will want to teach if it means they have to struggle to pay their bills.
I would say it’s fairly well paid, most teachers (outside of London) don’t struggle to pay their bills. But we do massively struggle to have a reasonable work life balance that doesn’t suck all of the life out of people.
Your thinking is constrained by what you’re accustomed to. The reality is that as time goes on, more and more jobs are going to become obsolete but we’ll continue to need teachers, doctors and nurses. Without them, either we die or society dies. If you closed the tax loopholes, you could easily pay for doctors, nurses and teachers without an issue.
But the reality is we need to pay for more than just them because more and more jobs will cease to exist, so in the long-term, we need to end monetary wealth as a concept.
Honestly, as a teacher I’d take more planning time over more money
How would you go about it? Shorter teaching days? Shorter teaching weeks? Half the load (so double the teachers)? Something I haven’t thought of?
Double planning time - it’s currently half a day a week, but I’d bring it up to a full day a week, so, yes, you’d need to employ a few more cover teachers.
So then we’re back to making the occupation an attractive one and quality of life is a massive part of that. Nobody will want to teach if it means they have to struggle to pay their bills.
I would say it’s fairly well paid, most teachers (outside of London) don’t struggle to pay their bills. But we do massively struggle to have a reasonable work life balance that doesn’t suck all of the life out of people.
This is what I get for only befriending and dating London based teachers.