Education ‘executives’ like Randi Weingarten make hundreds of thousands more than teachers – 8X in fact – taking home almost $600K a year and they don’t teach a single child nor do they teach the teachers. They’re leaches on the system.

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1. Ms Weingarten is an executive of a union that lobbies for teachers ad education causes. Maybe target some of the leeches that lobby for Big Oil, Pharma, or any of the other lobbies that fight for terrible causes.

   Oh, wait, your just a corporate shill yourself.

2. I don’t know her story per se, but do you really believe this? Like, do you think that there needs to be no executive face to the teacher’s federation? Do you think that the only consideration is teachers teach and there’s no social or political dimension to the discourse that could be better traversed by someone with her qualifications? She may be overpaid, but it’s a wild claim to say the AFT needs no executive leadership.

3. Just like a CEO. Profit off of everybody else’s work.

4. I have issue with teachers unions. Bad and perverted teachers are supported by them. I know the union needs to do its job and support the teacher but I am interested in the kids being taken care of, not the teacher. Can we get a kids union instead? They could demand proper education and nutrition or they could strike.

5. There needs to be people in executive positions in education. Is a $600k salary justifiable for that position? Maybe, maybe not.

   It is interesting that over the course of 20 years the number of administrators in public schools increased ~87%, more than 11x student growth and more than 10x teacher growth. Non-teaching staff now consists of over 50% of total public schools staff.

6. This is a result of consolidation just like every industry. This is the president of the second largest teacher union representing 1.7 million members, the largest represents almost 3 million members. The third largest only represents 220k members.

7. CEOs make more money than their employees. They don’t make any products or provide any services.

   Someone please explain to me how Education execs making 8x what a front line worker makes is a scandal and CEOs making 300x what a front line worker is not.

8. I’d probably like to see a breakdown of their role and responsibilities, level of pressure they’re under, their level of impact and influence, etc, before I form such a broad sweeping assumption.

9. *leeches

10. The AFT has 1.8 million members. Take away RW’s salary, and we can give teachers a 33 cent raise. The problems with education in the US are solved.

11. Nice try anarcho capitalism ring master.

    I heard these days ancap is called bozoism

12. Being active in ranarcho_calitalism is equal to shouting to the world “hey I’m a total missile, there’s no need to listen to me to take anything I say or do seriously”

13. I’d ask the same about Musk’s “income” compared to the highest compensated non-executive at Tesla. Exclude incentives etc. $56 billion/$101 billion to maybe $1 million. 56,000 to 101,000 times. Makes 8x look weak.

14. kids numeracy and literacy test scores are near the worst they’ve been since testing began. someone is dropping the ball.

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