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lumberjack_jeff

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4. Labor is subject to supply and demand.

Reply to noamnety (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 4, 2012, 09:24 PM

Dec 2012

School districts pay what they do because colleges graduate plenty of teachers.

I would debate that the hourly wage for teachers, when benefits are factored in, is all that bad.

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Buried stereotypes, one example (of many) [View all] Bonobo Dec 2012 OP

I understood teacher pay differently. noamnety Dec 2012 #1

That could be the history of it, but.... Bonobo Dec 2012 #2

Labor is subject to supply and demand. lumberjack_jeff Dec 2012 #4

Further, boys get the message that education isn't meant for them from an early age. lumberjack_jeff Dec 2012 #3