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[Tex]

OT re teachers' pay

Don't know about the rest of the planet, but the typical private school around here pays its teachers *less* than the typical public school.

Yeah, same here too. The teachers who go for the private school do it, so they say, for a better working environment: students and colleagues actually interested in teaching and learning.

In an environment offering both bad money and bad professional satisfaction, who takes the job? If the job has built-in protection from consequences, eventually it could become a haven for a higher-than-normal percentage of shirkers.

People seek private education despite the money, and offer to work within it despite the money, in order to enjoy non-economic benefits. The non-economic benefits seem to derive in large part from the selectivity of the membership of the student body and the faculty. Inability to boot those who don't fit tends to undermine the desirability of the system ... and maybe what you end up with is bad public schools.

Take care,
--Tex.