[etni] Fw: Re: Teacher Salaries


----- Original Message ----- From: David Bruce - davidbrucegilmore@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [etni] fw: Re: Teacher Salaries

Hi guys:

Let's face it: people don't understand the importance of education and having quality teachers until the situation is so bad that it is impossible to pretend any more. Then what happens is one of two things: either the government steps in and decides to change its (and its citizens') priorities, or else quality education moves to the private sector. It's obvious that what is happening in Israel is the latter.

Look, people don't understand that quality in teaching - as in every profession - is, by and large, a function of salary: the higher the salary, the more people are willing to compete for the same (teaching) jobs; create that competition, and then schools and principals can choose from a wider pool of applicants, and, consequently, hire the best of the many applicants (which is not to say that there aren't presently high-caliber teachers in the system, for their are, but, rather, that there is a wide discrepancy in skill, motivation, commitment, etc., because of the situation engendered by low teaching salaries).

I am not that optimistic about this situation changing significantly in the near future, but if it is to change at all, the public has to understand that comprehensive quality in the educational system is, by and large, a function of teacher's salaries.

Regards,

David Bruce


On 3/23/06, Ask Etni <ask@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: "Lev Abramov" < lev.abramov@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Teacher Salaries

Tom wrote:

* There is no reason for a senior teacher in high school to earn
one-tenth the salary of a router at a shipping port, a sixth of the
Bank of Israel librarian's wage, and half the average wage of the
Israel Electric Corporation personnel. The reason for the inflated
wages is obvious: the ports, the IEC, the Mekorot water company
and others have far more power to reduce the nation to its knees
than teachers do. - Haaretz


The only reason "the ports, the IEC, the Mekorot water company
and others" have more power is that they have trade unions.
Teachers don't.

Lev


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