>>8317136An article written by a brainlet. Seriously, this guy is a PhD in social anthropology, did his BA in political science and yet thinks about this issue the same way I did at age 15. His huge wall of text can be summed up with three points: teachers in the US are underpaid, no strong cultural strive towards improvement and inequality (here we go again) in the school system.
Point 1: Maybe being a teacher would be more prestigious if you had higher requirements. I don't know how it's in the US, but here becoming a teacher means you do a trimmed version of whatever degree, like doing physics minus all QM, statics, thermodynamics etc. plus a few useless pedagogy classes. It becomes easy as shit and those courses are filled to the brim with human trash. These people then go on to teach kids. What a surprise.
Point 2: This is quite interesting since he compares this point with Japan. Japan has a strong and homogenous population and outliers are quickly dealt with or cast out. There is no victim culture like in most of the West, and people strive to serve their country. This point is unspeakable here and he would be the first to cry about nationalism if this point was discussed publicly.
Point 3: Here he goes full retard. Where is the inequality when you literally have quotas giving x minority members full scholarships? Where is the inequality when football prodigies get the full ride for degrees? Where is the inequality when you can sue your way into a desired position by virtue of being member of a protected class?
tl;dr a typical 2/10 article.
