>You don’t need to have spent a day doing another person’s job to judge their compensation. That’s not how corporate America works, and that’s not how taxpayer-funded jobs should work, either.
Rupert Murdoch doesn’t have to have ever been a news anchor to judge the job that his news anchors are doing. The ratings and feedback measure that, along with his opinion, regardless of how hard the news anchors work or say they work.
As a parent, you don’t have to have been a teacher to be unhappy with the job teachers as a whole are doing.
Yes, there are some good teachers who go above and beyond, inspire children, and do an excellent job for little recognition.
But those are few and far between. It seems like some teachers here are trying to reframe this into, “there were a few bad apples, but the rest of all did a great job.”
That’s not true, and really, what parents feel about the quality of education their children are getting is more important than the self-report of someone who wants more money.
And how hard you work isn’t the sole determinant of the quality of your work. A salesman could work 80 hours and week and never make a sale. Another salesman might work 20 hours a week and make more sales than anyone else.
Selling is not the same as teaching, but the principle is the same. You could be working extremely hard…doesn’t mean you’re doing a good job.
