| gergroy said: K-12 teachers are a dime a dozen? You do realize that we are in one largest teacher shortages we have ever had right now? There are some states that about 1/3rd of their teaching workforce is unqualified for the job they teach because there aren’t enough qualified teachers applying for jobs or sticking around... |
Not really, there's less need for a K-12 teacher in the developed world than ever before in the age of information and the coming age of automation, biotechnology and machine learning ...
K-12 is absolutely low level material and teachers behind it are compensated the way they are cause the material is just not that demanding anymore when there are many other forms of competition out there which can provide assistance for similar material such as online schools/resources (quite a few out there are competent enough cover many of the 1st/2nd year university level courses) and let's not forget our foundations that our past generations set out since the vast majority of them are high school graduates themselves so a somewhat competent education can be had just from them ...
With Eugenics on the rise, our future generations could one day soon instantly just grasp new material just by their own tip of the fingers thus mitigating the need of a K-12 teacher altogether ...
And when US population growth is on a decline with the median age getting older it makes far more sense to downsize our K-12 efforts in favour of increasing focus on post-secondary education ...
K-12 does not serve the needs of our current workforce today and it should not serve as our baseline forever with an older more experienced populations of the developed worlds. If it were me I'd make cuts into the curriculum by just focusing on the essentials such as english, math, science and maybe some business so that students can finish earlier with the benefit of getting higher quality experiences in those courses and a far easier ordeal for teachers ... (it's nearly win-win solution aside from the students/teachers who wants those specialties but that isn't worth the added cost)
