Penny For Your Skills

Another brilliant plan by our education leaders, another finger in the dike of failing government education. We can't get enough math and science teachers so we'll pay $10,000 towards their tuition if they commit to an under payed and over regulated life of public school teaching. Keep your kids home for a few days so they don't get injured in the impending stampede.

Let's face it, math and science degrees are harder pursuits for most people and therefore we don't churn out as many of them every year as we need. Since there is a scarcity of graduates, there is an increased demand for their services. And this should lead to higher value placed on them. But in the great wisdom of the Marxists who run teacher's unions, ALL teachers have the same value. Well, let's get up to speed because even the Communists learned that some people are more equal than others. It is laughable that gym teachers make as much as History teachers. Or that History teachers make as much as Physics teachers. This "solution" is poorly conceived and inadequate. Like central planning in general; it will fail.

It is wrong that competent teachers make as much as incompetent ones. It is wrong that students who master the more challenging curriculum of math and science get paid the same as students who organize dodge ball games. It is a shame that no one has wrestled the important job of education away from the incompetent bureaucrats who have been failing at it for half a century.