Comments on: Merely excellent teachers aren’t terribly valuable in a principal’s currency https://www.isegoria.net/2022/07/merely-excellent-teachers-arent-terribly-valuable-in-a-principals-currency/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:34:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Pseudo-Chrysostom https://www.isegoria.net/2022/07/merely-excellent-teachers-arent-terribly-valuable-in-a-principals-currency/comment-page-1/#comment-3555414 Pseudo-Chrysostom Sun, 17 Jul 2022 18:33:18 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49100#comment-3555414 “To this day I wonder why we never decided just to give school kids coupons for meals at local diners.”

Come now, Ed, no need to be facetious. In a contest between ideas that can lead to a reduction in spreading out power and or paychecks available to fungal growths of carpetbagging bureaucrats, and ideas that will — just coincidentally — involve an expansion in their fungal growths, is it any wonder they will, tend, to prefer the latter?

]]> By: Wang Wei Lin https://www.isegoria.net/2022/07/merely-excellent-teachers-arent-terribly-valuable-in-a-principals-currency/comment-page-1/#comment-3555304 Wang Wei Lin Sat, 16 Jul 2022 23:28:23 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49100#comment-3555304 Which is why management overhead in the education ‘industry’ has tripled in recent decades while teachers per pupil ratio has decreased.

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