Dealer Tips

[Trainwreck]

Just say:

It depends....

Because you aint lying, it depends... on many factors... [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I'd say: 'It depends [pause] on too many factors to go into while I am trying to do my job'

If really drunk and pushes ya: 'A million'

>TW<

[Nomad84]

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many people are qualified to become teachers. very few are qualified to become pro athletes.

supply+demand rules.

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Believe, me when I say that we are in need of more good teachers. The problem is that there isn't any money to pay them. There isn't enough money for the current teachers to be paid a fair salary, and now the student:teacher ratio is growing. It is cheaper for the schools to pay the fines for having too many students per teacher than for them to just hire more teachers. Another problem is that many of our good teachers are moving to other states where the pay is better. I am in Oklahoma. I think that we rank somewhere in the bottom five out of the 50 states in terms of teacher pay. Many of our teachers go to Texas. One of my teachers moved to somewhere in Nevada, not far from Vegas. The supply and demand aspect of teacher pay is not quite as you described it. Instead, there is no supply of money from the state, therefore teachers are underpaid. The teachers who demand better pay must go somewhere else to get it.

For the record, my mom is a kindergarten teacher. And she runs the restaurant that my granddad started 20 years ago. I'd guess that during the school year she averages 70 hours/week. In the summer, she isn't teaching, but the restaurant requires a lot more time and a lot of cooking BBQ through the night to keep up with demand during the day. I don't know how she does it [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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I would argue that professors make more then HS teachers. Also I never said teachers weren't skilled positions I am just saying anyone who wants to as long as they study and pass classes can become a teacher. You can't just become a pro athlete, you have to have the skills required. Yes I agree teachers are much more important on the whole but there aren't people paying 50$ a person to watch someone teach. Plus lets not forget big athletes contracts are a recent thing. In the 60's they didnt make as much because there wasn't as much of a demand. It all comes back to the basics of economics supply and demand.

[toots]

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I would argue that professors make more then HS teachers.

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Proof alone that we aren't paying primary school teachers enough to get ones that can do the job adequately.

[TomBrooks]

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many people are qualified to become teachers. very few are qualified to become pro athletes. supply+demand rules.

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And if the media networks could broadcast classroom activities that would generate high ratings and attract major advertisers to cough up big bucks for commercial spots, the schools systems could sell broadcast rights and generate revenue that way to help pay teachers more. Unfortunately, most schooling takes place during off-peak broadcast hours and tape delayed shows run at primetime might not generate the same level of interest as a live broadcast.

[tylerdurden]

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The supply and demand aspect of teacher pay is not quite as you described it. Instead, there is no supply of money from the state, therefore teachers are underpaid. The teachers who demand better pay must go somewhere else to get it.

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Isn't that EXACTLY what the supply and demand model would predict?

[Randy_Refeld]

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Plus lets not forget big athletes contracts are a recent thing. In the 60's they didnt make as much because there wasn't as much of a demand. It all comes back to the basics of economics supply and demand.


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Actually it was because the owners of pro sports teams acted more effectively as a monopsony. It is rather boring, but if anyone really wants to know about this stuff I wrote my master's thesis about the exploitation of labor in MLB.

[Nomad84]

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The supply and demand aspect of teacher pay is not quite as you described it. Instead, there is no supply of money from the state, therefore teachers are underpaid. The teachers who demand better pay must go somewhere else to get it.

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Isn't that EXACTLY what the supply and demand model would predict?

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Of course! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Ok, yeah...ignore what I said before. Not sure what I was thinking when I typed that. My point was that there is a need for more good teachers (what I was thinking of as demand) but not an "official" demand in terms of job openings.

OK...time to get back on topic (or let the thread die...)