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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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She got a job working in a corporate office for a big company. This is pretty typical of not-retail-worker-salary beating out public sector nine times out of ten.
Why would someone ever be a teacher for <50k? Anybody with an education background can move to Seattle, Washington (or other state close to big city pay) and be a corporate trainer and move up to a director level role and get paid many times what they would ever be paid as a teacher...
...except so many want to stay near family, not be near a big city, can't move because of xyz, want a couple months off each year.. etc etc etc.
To quote somebody: Schools should be palaces. The competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be making six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge to its citizens, just like national defense.
Just isn't that way today and there is a big political and economic mess in the way of getting there.
Educated young people overthrow governments. You do the math.
But maybe educated young people will join the govt a well, and make it better, so that we will not want to overthrow the govt.
That's why we're seeing the rise of private schools and an increase in cost. The forces that be want only the "right" people to be properly educated.