Never had a kid go to Cary High. I live on the western side of Wake County. By reputation Cary High and other schools in or near Cary are well-run and do not have problems with violence. Mainly due to the demographics being over 75% upper-middle class families where the parents are employed in RTP. I will agree that schools need to get back to removing students who are violent and not putting up with misbehavior. We now have an environment where many students do not respect or fear teachers. There are a good number of dedicated excellent teachers despite the pay issues and student issues. The problem in North Carolina is that many of the young mobile ones simply have to move to a neighboring state to get a $10K pay raise.
A simple Google search provides 34 million results on this subject. As expected there are studies & articles on both sides of the issue. Here is the first result... International Study Links Higher Teacher Pay and Teacher Quality http://neatoday.org/2012/01/04/international-study-links-higher-teacher-pay-and-teacher-quality/ Let me say that if you are a state like North Carolina which has a large number of teachers leaving the profession due to pay then you have an issue. We have young teachers regularly leaving teaching to go to neighboring states that pay $10K more. Remember the principle of a free labor market where employers compete to get the best employees with higher compensation -- well it also takes place in the teaching profession. If you want the best employees than you need to at least meet the salaries of direct competitors.
I think the lack of correlation you're trying to draw would be better illustrated with CEO pay and corporate performance outcomes.
We already know what the correlation there is. Possibly negative. If you have a solution, I am all ears.
I think Arnie was implying the same general correlation with teachers' pay. I don't think so. I side with gwb-trading on this one. You can put your ears away now.
This is what is considered brilliant thinking by the dumb-ass moron Trumpers. They also think that because North Korea hates cancer, cancer is good. Fucking morons.