The $4 Million Teacher

Sun Aug 4 18:30:54 UTC 2013

Dear Tommy,

I thought I would react to your interesting sentence that states " It isn't
just what our society values but how education values itself and how the
politics of a school values itself."  Within your three folds' perception
of a "rock-star teacher or professor's reason for accepting the politics of
 salary, how would you evaluate the social reality's influence on the way
"the politics of a school values itself'?

I have always thought that many highly qualified teachers or professors
accept the salary and the treatment they are exposed to because of the love
of the profession that they have deep inside them. An old French  teaching
methodology book entitled *Notre Beau Metier (Our Beautiful Profession) *say
it all. I also like to use the metaphor " a bird in the hand is better than
two in the bush". In any case, how many teachers who want to live a normal
life: enjoy quality family time, sports, vacations, travel around this
beautiful world want to invest their time and energy in
millions-paying-teaching business!

We should be arguing against the discourse of salaries- in- millions policy
across global social and public policies if we would like to see this
politics of millions-in-salary weakened in our global "culture
reproduction", "globalization of education", and the improvement of "global
inequality" system (Bourdieu & Passeron, 2000; Spring, 2009; D'Anieri,
2012: 300-330 ). Just my opinion - millions of whatever currency should be
used as organizational, states and national financial budget policy not as
individual salary policy. When millions becomes salaries for individuals no
matter in what capacity they serve, we may have to  fight forever for
social justice, global poverty and equal pay but may not be able to reach a
satisfactory outcome. I think there may not be enough millions to pay all
rock-stars teachers and professors or any other highly qualified
individuals if justice has to be applied to the politics of rock-stars'
salaries.

 It is all of us responsibility to argue against "social inequality" and
its patterns and processes (Marger, 2011) that the politics of salaries-in-
millions for rock-stars professionals generates . To Promote a reasonable
and dignified professional salary, professionals included "rock-star
professionals" don't need to be paid in millions.

References
Bourdieu, P. & Passeron, J. (2000). *Reproduction in education, society and
culture (2nd ed.).* Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
D'Anieri, P. (2012).* International politics: Power and purpose in global
affairs (2nd)*. Boston, MA: Wadsworth.
Marger, M. (2011). *Social inequality: Patterns and processes (5th ed.)*.
New York: McGraw-Hill.
Spring, J. (2009). *Globalization of education: An introduction*. New York:
Routledge.

On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Tommy McDonell <tbmcdonell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Someone could do this here quite easily and we already have a system where
> those with money get a better education. Compare if you will the property
> tax you pay in Chappaqua to what you pay elsewhere.
>
> This teacher also makes textbooks and lessons so the issue is drawn into
> publishing and communications. No one here gets paid that much for
> textbooks or some of NYU's TESOL adjuncts (and yours, too,wherever you may
> teach), would not be adjuncts.
>
> Many teachers could market themselves, and I have often pointed this out,
> but they don't?
>
> Why? You need only need to consider that many schools do not consider
> teaching online or educational DVDs as something to be added to your
> teaching portfolio for tenure!
>
> I dare say that even at city colleges a rock star professor would get
> fired.
>
> Baseball salaries and/or education. It isn't just what our society values
> but how education values itself and how the politics of a school values
> itself.
>
> When the adjuncts went on strike at NYU, I learned how much more I could
> get paid for a writing class (the same class minus teaching how to teach
> it), at Stern our business school.
>
> I teach online now privately and business students don't really have any
> more money than education students, they just value education as a product
> more than do our education students.
>
> Sigh.
>
> Tommy
>
> PS Bad writing today can be blamed on Augmentin and codeine cough meds.
> Bad thinking has only me to blame.
>
> Tommy B. McDonell, Ph.D.
> Pinehurst, NC 28374
> http://tbmcdonellart.com
> Remember to have your colonoscopy.
>
> Some typos are courtesy of my iPhone 5. Other mistakes are due to being
> tired.
>
> On Aug 4, 2013, at 4:02 AM, Francis Hult <francis.hult at englund.lu.se>
> wrote:
>
>  The Wall Street Journal
>
>
>
> The $4 Million Teacher
>
>
>
> Kim Ki-hoon earns $4 million a year in South Korea, where he is known as a
> rock-star teacher—a combination of words not typically heard in the rest of
> the world. Mr. Kim has been teaching for over 20 years, all of them in the
> country's private, after-school tutoring academies, known as hagwons.
> Unlike most teachers across the globe, he is paid according to the demand
> for his skills—and he is in high demand.
>
>
>
> Full story:
>
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324635904578639780253571520.html?google_editors_picks=true
>
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*David M. Balosa*
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