Lol, comparing to international pay is wrong because of different cost of living.
But in any case, most teachers' pay are actually above median pay ($4k) in SG, so yeah, the pay is fine. Just that like any civil service job, progression is slow. That said, job stability is nearly airtight.
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The current pay is okie. Actually now have slight excess of teachers because of the closure of jc and primary school.
If too high, then we will attracting the wrong crowd. We want new teachers to be passionate, not because they cannot find a job, therefore join teaching.
With regards to pay, The ambitious ones alr left and open their own tuition centres. It is passionate ones that are still in the system.
From international perspective, our pay is higher than the UK or US.
from a student perspective, we need to retain the passionate ones, not the money grabbing ones.
Hence increasing pay may not really optimize our student outcome or attract the right teachers.
That being said I think some of the stress comes from the demanding parents nowadays. If anything we need to optimize the parents to improve the welfare of teachers. Say no to teachers abuse.
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