re: I am the Department of Education: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

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I think people are seeing that graph and shitting on teachers without realizing that teacher salaries have been pretty much the same since 1970 (and declined relative to other professions).

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no. I just see that graph combined with Educators telling me that the primary problem and education has to do with non-monetary factors and ask myself this. If the primary problem isn't monetary and enormously increasing budgets haven't had any real effect then isn't that an argument to stop increasing budgets? Hell isn't it an argument that says it was no justification for the huge increases in the first place