On: Nobody wants to teach anymore

[mattkrause]

> Some school systems offer 'gold plated' healthcare plans

So? If you want good teachers--or at, some point, any teachers--you need to offer working conditions that are good enough to attract them, just like any other job.

Spending on benefits "instead of" education is a false dichotomy; in fact, I'd say that's the central thesis of the article.

[GiorgioG → mattkrause]

This was the school system I went to in a rust-belt city, the teachers were not 'good' on average.

[mattkrause → GiorgioG]

But if you tried to hire teachers while offering less, would they have been better? My guess is no; they'd have been even worse.