Why don't conservatives understand the quality of education

[TaylorWatts]

is related to how much you pay teachers?

They always talk free market solutions, but it never occurs to them that spitting on teachers and cutting their pay is going to result in crappier teachers?

I can say that I've already applied to a bunch of jobs out of WI.

[NYC Liberal]

1. You assume conservatives want people to get a good education...

I don't necessarily think that's a good assumption to make ;)

[Wilms]

2. They DO understand that much.

And it scares them.

[GoCubsGo]

3. They want people to be stupid and ignorant.

If people were well educated, their party would not exist. They WANT crappy teachers, and the cheaper the better.

[TaylorWatts]

4. Well the top repukes want that, but what about the rank and file?

[themadstork]

5. Many are just as rabidly anti-intellectual, leery of any education--the "liberal elites".

They are paranoid. It works for the GOP.

[northernlights]

20. many of the rank and file are also stupid and ignorant

and demand that everybody else to remain so, or else they may feel inferior. They also want to protect us from becoming elitist snobs.

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[EstimatedProphet]

14. Sure is a funny comment! It sounds just like what a Republican would say!

[arcane1]

6. The quality/pay ratio only applies to CEOs n/t

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[SlowFlowPro]

8. With a free market, why wouldn't good teachers earn more?

if there wasn't a government-mandated salary based mostly on seniority, wouldn't the cream rise to the top?

a rising star in the teaching market would be worth a higher salary, be it at that teacher's current school or another school

most professors i know make a lot more at elite private universities compared to state-run universities (it varies widely by field, however)

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[Taitertots]

23. Because good teachers don't increase profits

With a free market, why should we assume that we would get anything other than the lowest quality teachers at the lowest possible wages?

[athenasatanjesus]

9. Is there something conservatives do understand?

That's a topic I'd love to see.

[tedbear]

10. CONSERVATIVES

It isn't even about education - it is that they ONLY CARE ABOUT MONEY - AND THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT THEMSELVES. Generally, they are too dense to understand that education along with collective bargaining improves the entire country - or more likely, they don't care because they are self-serving to the max.

[katnapped]

21. They couldn't care less about improving the country

Their bank accounts is #1 through infinity...the rest of us can go to hell as far as they're concerned.

[Canuckistanian]

15. The first four words of your question

Is all you really needed.

[NashVegas]

16. Because It's Not

Parents have more effect on student grades than most teachers ever will.

[TaylorWatts]

17. That may be true for little kids, but not for upper teens and

young adults.

Not all parents can teach their kids calculus.

[hobbit709]

18. They understand it all right-for themselves.

The serfs and slaves they want illiterate. It makes them easier to control.
Look at how many slave holding societies made it illegal for a slave to read and write.
There was a reason for that, if they can't communicate with each other they can't plot an uprising.

[KharmaTrain]

19. Rushpublicans Thrive On Ignorance...

The last thing a dittohead is is a free thinker. They want to be told what to think and over the past 30 years the GOTB mantra has been that the "intellegensia" (also called "liburls") are the enemy and they use education in "indoctrinate" the masses. It's demonizing the whole educational system and now it's demonizing anyone who is associated with it. Education breeds non-conformity...and that can't fit into the absolutist world of the great unhinged. The less one is educated, the more likely they are to swallow the right wing bullshit.

[sendero]

22. They want...

... the poor to stay poor. They want to maintain and reinforce a class system wherein they are the chosen few based on the accident of birth.

You can see this attitude in most of their "thinking".