First, teachers do get paid well and no other profession gets that much vacation time a year. Around here, they have around four months off a year with summer off, two weeks at Christmas, a week at Spring Break, numerous holidays.
Instead of worrying about raising salaries to attract smarter people, teachers need to stop getting away with whining about how awful their pay is, as it is not true. Yet people believe it. Teachers and nurses are the biggest whiners I know. There is a website in MN where salaries of teachers were published. Most of them in our district made around $80,000 a year for eight months work. This year they left school in March and may return late August. Then they will get two weeks off at Christmas. They barely worked six months in 2020 and will get full pay. No wonder the teachers are screaming “But muh virus” because they would love to stay home and finish those home improvement projects, spend Fall at their cabins on the lake, garden, bake, walk around the lakes.
First, teachers do get paid well and no other profession gets that much vacation time a year. Around here, they have around four months off a year with summer off, two weeks at Christmas, a week at Spring Break, numerous holidays.
Instead of worrying about raising salaries to attract smarter people, teachers need to stop getting away with whining about how awful their pay is, as it is not true. Yet people believe it. Teachers and nurses are the biggest whiners I know. There is a website in MN where salaries of teachers were published. Most of them in our district made around $80,000 a year for eight months work. This year they left school in March and may return late August. Then they will get two weeks off at Christmas. They barely worked six months in 2020 and will get full pay. No wonder the teachers are screaming “But muh virus” because they would love to stay home and finish those home improvement projects, spend Fall at their cabins on the lake, garden, bake, walk around the lakes.