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> However much they're paying teachers, it's clearly not enough, because not enough people are willing to do the job for that amount of money.

The problem is that the scope of the job has changed and you can't pay people enough to do it. Here are some issues, straight from teachers I was talking to last week:

* Admin who constantly wants teachers to do more with no additional resources so they can get credit for it and advance their career. They were very frustrated by this.

* Teaching evaluation based on absolute standardized scores rather than relative. So you can have a bad class, lift them a lot, but still be viewed poorly because on absolute terms, they are still weak. You might say that evens out over time, but it doesn't because some teachers are better with difficult students, so they get more than their share of these issues.

* Special needs students mainstreamed - kids with emotional issues that flip desks and yell out constantly, physical issues such as seizures if they bump their head, but parents will not let them wear protective gear because they will stand out, elementary school kids who are constantly in physical altercations with other kids.

* Kids come to school not having eaten since the day before, cloths that haven't been washed in days, etc.

* Unable to give accurate grades because parents fight back and so teachers are forced to pass kids even though they know they are just pushing a big problem on the next teacher.

* Zero support from parents and in many cases, outright hostility.

* The classroom is a minefield regarding what can be discussed and cannot be discussed. Everyone has an opinion on how it should be done, but almost none of them have ever actually taught.
Wait, I’m seriously confused by this. If preserving the character of one’s country is an important issue, is the NHS not part of the character of the UK? My understanding is the NHS is one of the defining symbols of the UK, a showing of communal strength and compassion, the Western sensibility in the face of the devastation of war. It touches everyone who lives there, is born there, and often when they die there. It’s erosion is changing every single citizen by shaking their faith in the underlying values the institution represents. Isn’t that a way bigger change?

Genuinely, why are refugees something to be prioritized over a cultural touchstone institution if the goal is preserving historical character?
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Lots of well respected people burnout too. I think we can safely assume being paid lots of money is not the underlying reason.
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I think this applies to the US as well, at least California.
As someone who was embedded in the NHS for a number of years it has many problems, but counterintuitively one of them is actually a lack of paper pushers or at least low level admin and other auxiliary staff.

Because governments have constantly demanded the NHS spend less money, but have also been under pressure to preserve numbers of "front line" staff you've ended up with serious shortages of low level admins, medical secretaries, receptionists, finance officers etc. This means that more and more healthcare workers spend their time doing paperwork or customer service work that could be done by anyone. I worked out of one of the largest genomic diagnostic labs in the country with over 150 clinical geneticists, nurses, scientists and consultants and there were 4 admins. That meant nurses were staffing reception, consultants were managing their own diaries, geneticists were doing stock takes and clinical scientists were packaging up and booking samples onto DHL for collection. This was not an efficient way of working, but the lab had a hard ban on hiring any non "front line" staff. And it had been running like that for years.

The trust as a whole had the same problem on a macro scale. There weren't enough finance officers so invoices didn't get paid or debtors chased (the NHS provides a lot of private services as well). Because of a lack of staff working in recruitment it could take months (4 in my case) between being given a job offer and the paperwork being in place to actually start. Payroll was a nightmare because of lack of staff and multiple unintegrated time recording systems, many of them to this day paper based.

A large number of legacy patient records are still paper based and have to be physically moved around and digitised "on the fly" but because the NHS is supposed to be digital there aren't enough porters payed to literally push the trolleys of records around so you end up with nurses doing it.

I could go on for a long time but you get the idea.
By the standard that we're systematically mismanaging the funds we are spending. The bussing system is absurdly inefficient and wholly unnecessary. Neighborhood schools used to be a thing. Some school systems offer 'gold plated' healthcare plans where they include cosmetic surgery as a benefit to a school system that needs more money spent towards actual education.

I'm not advocating doing away with the public education system, but we're being swindled. It's not the teachers' fault (obviously), but the system as a whole. Every little town has its own school system, administrative overhead, etc.
On at least half of those services, that ends up with me being logged in on my phone which is decidedly not what I want.

Plus I don't know who's using that to help adtech build their cross device mappings
And that is good
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True. We needs massive propaganda campaign to highlight teachers. And, of course, show respect by paying them accordingly.

Another semi-related issue is school system used for virtue signalling first. For example „special needs“ kids integration. It sounds nice on paper, but in reality one kids holds up whole class. And then smarter kids riot because they get bored. But hey, that's teacher's fault..

IMO that will be the crucial piece for West decline. This is reverting the best bit in post-industrial-revolution welfare states. Teach the masses to fish out the brilliant mind from the whole pool. But now we're reducing the pool to those who can afford private schools. And loosing lots of talent in the rest of society. If that trend continues, soon we'll be back in nobility-peasants split with little social mobility. Which a loss not onlh for the society as a whole, but for neo-nobility as well. At first it may be cool to be richer-than-thou, but over time „richest in the room“ will turn out to be poor at global scale.
It’s education as a whole that isn’t valued very highly. People just don’t want to put in the work and it’s easy to blame teachers on the front line doling out the work.
"If you can do math, you can teach yourself enough physics to teach in high school."

No, you can't. Even at the high school level there is jargon, historical methodology, and domain-specific nuance that isn't accessible to the self-taught. That's true for almost any subject one might think of, in fact.
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If there was salary parity between teachers and workers, I think that sentiment would vanish. With the current disparity, the implication is teaching is a "final resort" for people who "couldn't cut it" in their industry.
Of course, the Wii U was released well after the Xbox 2 (360) and about a year before the Xbox One.
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Once you get past the front line, things get pretty specialist

But isn't a GP (general practicioner) exactly the front line of which you speak?
I wonder, how much energy is being burned for these kinds of experiments.
You are correct! I was responding to the comedic parent.

However, both the Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines are very equivalent inactivated virus vaccines with comparable (low) effectiveness against any of the proliferating post Delta vaccines, and vaccination rates in the elderly are quite low.

Which makes my point that there really isn't a good controlled environment where all of this data is easily collected. Even the developing world has received significant vaccination at this point, while politics have made gathering and interpreting the causes of excess deaths challenging EVERYWHERE. Sweden? UK? US? France? Singapore? German? Russia? China? India? Africa?
Excess death is higher in Europe in general.
you can see the stats here:
https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps#excess-mortality

What I find strange is the increase in excess death among children since April 2021.
$13k per student is more than the cost of undergraduate education, at $12.5k per student for the University of Washington.

https://www.washington.edu/opb/tuition-fees/current-tuition-...
there are many reasons to reduce harm.

there are absolutely no reason to ban it, because that only causes more harm.

somehow many people on Earth have a remarkable resistance to nuance.
It's time for the people to decide how they want companies that provide utilities to behave, and time for utility companies to stop telling the people how to behave.

In the olden days, if the AT&T monopoly just cut off phone service to a (convicted in court) pedo, they would get in severe trouble. We the people imposed limits on powerful companies. Even today, with the monopoly split up, this would not be legal. Let alone just deciding on their own initiative to do it.

In this case, a utility provider is cutting off service based on a digital rumor. They are judge, jury, and executioner.

The laws governing telcos were made over a period of 150 years, but most particularly in the 1920s and 1930s.

Google does not fit these laws because they do not charge for them (perhaps this should be made illegal?) and monetize them differently. Also, obviously the services are far beyond simple voice or fax. And yet, they are definitely utilities.

Utility companies must not be politically partisan or active. Mixing those two things is toxic and bad for society. It also is too much of a temptation for politicians to use the implied power of utilities over the people to silence or supress opposition.

If Google wants to be an activist company, then it will need to shed its utilities. If Google wants to provide utilities, then it needs to shut down its activism.
No. I live close to the sea, but there are no small pools of water around. The area is quite domesticated.
> With magic links it happens every single login. Confirmation email only needs to be done once per email. I thought this was obvious?

You don't have to do it on every single login. Check my previous reply's comment:

> I really don't understand why so many folks hate magic links. They solve a number of problems in a pretty reasonable way at the cost of having to wait 5 seconds for 1 email to verify your email at which point the site can set a cookie for a year and you don't have to deal with logging in by email for another year.

There's nothing "magic" about magic links and "remember me". You still read this information from a session and can optionally look up the details from an encrypted and signed cookie (or Redis / Memcached / whatever session back-end) with a user ID which then loads a user from your DB on the back-end. It's the same exact workflow as a user / pass strategy.
I'm not convinced that the UK has been all that comparable to Germany and France for years. GDP is of course an imperfect measure of the real size and capacity of the economy - Ireland has about twice the GDP per capita of all of those countries, but there's not really any way for their government to capture that economic activity as funding for stuff - and certain other metrics are not so great. For example, the average UK household is apparently £8,800 a year worse off than in Germany or France (median income, adjusted for purchasing power) and that gap's been there since about 2008: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/13/average-uk-...

In some sense, the UK became poorer than the other European countries it'd normally be compared to at the end of the previous New Labour government when the financial crisis hit and just never really recovered from that. It's possible there is no obvious way out anymore - everyone being poorer means less means less money for them to spend on consumer products and services and less tax revenue the government to spend on things like healthcare and infrastructure, and all of that means less businesses interested in setting up in the country (for reasons other than low taxes anyway) and less tax revenue, less well paying jobs... it's a vicious circle to be stuck in.

Even before that happened, the New Labour-era spending was obviously unsustainable at the level of tax they were willing to charge. Despite the economy booming and a bunch of NHS infrastructure spending being moved off government books via expensive PFI programs the national debt went up consistently as a proportion of GDP year after year. Afterwards the Tories made a big fancy show of austerity and cutting back on government spending (and to be fair it did eliminate the deficit like they promised, for a while anyway) but even their big scary austerity program only froze the proportion of GDP spent on healthcare for a while.
This would only break sync and not access to existing passwords at least, unlike most Google services where you'd be totally SOL
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It’s not a paper, it’s a blog post that was meant to be provocative. It appears to have worked.
Public schools are not a market economy. Even in the most capitalist country in the world, there will be obligatory free public schools, and they will be government-financed.

The level of demand, however, can vary. Do Americans even want good public education? Or it is an afterthought?
Honestly asking: How are the kids doing? Is there a positive impact from the arrangement?
What makes you so sure government bureaucracy is even capable of doing this? It never had a great track record to begin with.
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> [Science] advances by constructing models and comparing their predictions with observations.

No, not so much. That is scientific method.

Science is paradigmatic. The advancement of science only occurs when the current science paradigm is toppled. Currently, ΛCDM Theory is the paradigm. And it is not when it is discovered that CDM does not exist and the Universe is not expanding when the paradigm topples. Because that may have already happened... JWST may have completed this task.

A decent example of the resilience of paradigms is the luminiferous ether. Michelson published the results of his experiment in 1881. Maybe there were some that immediately realized the significance, but the paradigm remained through the ether crisis, and even after Einstein published Special Relativity in 1905, and deep, deep into the 20th Century and arguably shallowly into the first few years of 21st Century.

Science paradigms are sticky and resilient, even when they are completely wrong.

So it will take decades after the discovery that CDM doesn't exist before most scientists are finally on the same page and the paradigm is finally toppled. Only then, after being wrong for maybe as long as 200 years and most have moved on away from the previous paradigm that Science legitimately advances.
> Studying art means contextualising the art, understanding how it came about, what kind of discourse it was part of, what role it used to play and continues to play, by which means certain effects are achieved, what it tells us about the time it was written in, what it tells us about the artist, how art was and is consumed, and so on.

By that standard, OP's lived experience thereby implies that academics of English Literature no longer care about "studying art", having replaced that sort of valuable scholarship with meaningless ideological posturing and politicking.
Why it doesn't lead to better educational outcomes?
> As a European, it has always been perplexing to me how little the US invests in teachers and schools, given that we know how huge the benefits are down the road (educational attainment, income, pro-social behavior, life satisfaction).

You may or may but know this, but the funding of K-12 education varies by locality and has quite a bit of variability (typically paid for by local taxes).

If you go to the upper-middle class neighborhoods in the US, and certainly in the nicer private schools, you will see a high or very high level of investment in teachers and facilities. These investments typically have good to great returns. There is also often quite a bit of structured parental involvement (which is usually a good thing).

There are a lot of interesting levels of inquiry into this phenomenon:

- Do we need high quality mass education as it is found in these higher quality upper middle class schools? As in, if you magically made these types of schools appear in low SES neighborhoods, would the outcomes/benefits be similar? If not, how would they differ?

- If you take a few low SES students and place them into these better schools, do they get the same benefits as the locals?

- To what extent do better schools and school districts get better results due to the schools, due to the inputs, and/or due to the values of the local community?

People who are looking for good K-12 education in the US can find it, but it’s not universal. Imho, this is due to the fact that the value of education in the US is not perceived similarly across communities.

The article mentions that many parents see schools as child care while the adults do “real work”, and I think that that is the dominant perspective in most communities (note, not most HN communities, not most upper middle class communities — statistically most communities are low or mid-low SES where people are living paycheck to paycheck). As such, the community is sort of getting what it wants when it gets mediocre education results. I think that many people like the idea of a having a better school or school district, but they are not able or willing to do what it takes to make that happen on an individual or community level to make that happen (e.g., through parental involvement in schools, school boards, creating a good learning environment in the home, etc.).

If you ever need a good litmus test for how this looks different across communities and across different SES levels, ask the parents if they read books with their children, and if they did/do, at what age. In most communities, they don’t at all or very little. In the communities with better schools, it’s almost always early and often. There are obviously exceptions (both positive and negative), but this heuristic is extremely telling in aggregate.
Why would they clear out djvu? It's one of the best/most efficient storage format for scanned books.
What if someone emails stock photos to Google execs that are known to trigger Google's child abuse algorithm? They would have to build a way to re-activate banned accounts to get their own accounts back.
Unfortunately prisons, which are increasingly private for-profit enterprises, will continue to exist. Think about it: if you're banned from google, how will your body continue to generate revenue?
Plus the pandemic has probably burnt out healthcare staff
I'd like to introduce a sensitive subject as neutrally as possible.

For root causes, the morale environment is largely politically induced in a coordinated attack on public education that goes back to the 80's. For some examples...

* cuts on school lunches https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup_as_a_vegetable

* voucher programs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_voucher

* vast finanical aid cuts http://tech.mit.edu/V105/N2/budget.02n.html

These policies have persisted off and on since then.
Now I'm curious if it can handle the classic reading comprehension assignment I've been given multiple times in my life. You know, the one that goes something like this:

1. Read through all steps carefully.

2. Do X

3. Do Y

(...)

99. As you have now read through the instructions, simply put your name in the top right corner of the first page.
Do you mean cost of living-adjusted salaries are about OECD average? And do you think above-average salaries are required for above-average returns? Just curious.
Are you a teacher in Boston? How many years teaching and how much education above a bachelor's degree does it take you to get to $100,000?

My experience is that the grids have $100,000 sitting out there like a Cadillac, but 99% of teachers get steak knives.
Supporting the party which consistently underfunds a British institution, and sells off parts of it to their mates, in order to protect Britishness. Sums up Tory politics nicely, really.
A few random thoughts:

1. For as much as we spend on education, teachers seem to be grossly underpaid - to be getting robbed of their share of the budget. Where does that money go?

2. It seems that education degrees are seen as easier to achieve than others.

3. Teachers frequently complain about how they are unappreciated, yet children spend _12 years_ in their care. Why do people come up to them and say they hated school rather than “thank you”?

4. Many school problems are caused by disruptive children.

Disruptive children are caused by parents who frankly just don’t give a shit. Throwing more money into schools won’t ever fix this problem.

5. Schools are just too darn big. Thousands of kids in a big prison-shaped building and we wonder why everyone is alienated, miserable and dehumanized?
That would assume the educational capabilities are relatively equal. The US has large demographic segments that have historically been difficult to educate.

I wonder what the comparison would look like if limited to native born with two parent households?
probably less than the amount of energy being burned by people browsing hn.
"Those who can't do, teach" is almost exclusively about money, the idea being that in almost every industry you would be paid more to do than to teach. Thus, if you are teaching it's likely because you failed to be a doer. This isn't anti-intelligence, it's actually a fairly logical stance.

It does miss that a person's desire to educate can far exceed their desire to ply the trade and they are willing to sacrifice their pay at that particular altar. But given most teachers do not seem irrationally excited about teaching or being teachers that line of thought is quite diminished.
You are blaming alcohol for people's actions. That's disgusting and horrifying. I wonder what makes you say that. Religious?
Love it.

I feel similarly about the quality (don't know what else to call it) of the many songs I listen to from that time, compared to similarly popular songs over the past decades.

Though for me they're also nostalgic in a way which clouds my judgement: I was introduced to vast amounts by my dad in the 90s.

I do think there's some selection bias when we sample tunes that already ran through the filter of their time and 50 to 60 more years of collective filtering.

One group I still didn't know much about and I think many people still don't (paradoxically so) was the Beatles.

When I was 18, a friend lent me every album from Revolver through Abbey Road.

If you haven't listed to those all the way through, you may be in for a treat.

Also, if you want to hear an incredible modern artist's own
version of a protest song, check out Sturgill Simpson's Sea Stories. Dude was in the navy and wrote it as part of a concept album dedicated to giving his first child life advice.
Teacher’s lives were taken over by bureaucrats and regulations that are updated yearly requiring new ‘training’.

Ever seen the pages long bullet points of sub-sub-sub topics supposed to be covered in kindergarten? Know how much stress that would add…
i think it is under-exaggerated. maybe 99.995%.
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I find the reply to be lacking in justification for why the price of labor for teaching is related to the median price for all labor.