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Chapter five. Teacher Pay. Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions. Teachers will never be rewarded adequately unless we find new ways to unleash and reward their talents. Students and teachers will always be underserved by a system that uses them as political ponds Based on real inflation adjusted data. America's public schools have increased spending on a per student basis by 38% between 1992 and 2017. However, over the same period of time, real teacher pay has actually decreased by 4/10 of 1%. While spending on non teacher staffing has increased significantly. We have immense talent in the education community. We must find ways to set educators free to soar and flourish in a system that truly recognizes and rewards their talents. Instead of giving lip service to teachers. As professionals, we must actually allow them to practice their profession in a manner best suited for their individual students and reward them accordingly. The biggest reward we could provide to teachers would be to grant them the freedom to practice their profession. The one big difference between the teaching profession and most other professions is the ability of most other professionals to go into private practice. Teachers are consistently paid less than other professionals. That is because of the way the system is currently structured, which results in school districts having a monopoly any of power over the teaching perfection, monopoly. Power is the mirror image of monopoly power, monopoly. Power is attained when the seller of goods or services has control over the supply of those goods or services provided monopolize any power is when the buyer of goods or services has control over which goods or services will be procured with a monopoly, the seller is in control with a monopoly. Sunni the buyer is in control, since, as structured today, most teachers must sell their services to a school district. School districts then have a monopoly power over teachers and over teacher salaries. Dr jake Jacob victor, a harvard trained labor economist, was hired as an expert witness for plaintiff school districts. He provided expert testimony in the texas school finance case on december 4th 2012, saying that introducing greater competition into the market for teachers will raise teacher's salaries. School districts that have power over consumers in the market for education also possess power over teachers in the labor market. They thus represent a classic form of producer with monopoly power compared to a competitive labor market in this context, where one where many small education providers compete to hire teachers. one option ist hire fewer workers and pay them less. They restrict their hiring because in order to hire more workers, they would have to pay higher wages, including the workers already under their employee. Intuitively, schools in a more competitive system bid up the price of teachers. Thus, while there may be arguments for introducing additional choice for parents, it must be understood that the classic textbook prediction is that such unleashing of competitive forces would drive up the labor cost of existing schools, dr victor testified as consistent with economic theory that providing greater choice for teachers and for parents would result in school districts being forced to pay teachers more money. In other words, the education system, as currently structured, reduces the number of teachers actually higher, and also compresses teacher pay. Given the monopoly, any power of districts, the best way to reward teachers is not merit pay, nor the highly structured salary schedules based solely on tenure. Instead, the best solution would be to set teachers free to practice their professions, like other professionals. Once set free to practice their trade, most would earn higher and fairer pay. The profession would attract more people, and job satisfaction would increase. See more about that concept in chapters six and 7.