Nah, they really don't -- pay them enough so that they are comfortably middle class within their school district, can live there and raise a family like everybody else, maybe they'd be a bit more committed to teaching.
Same goes for the universities...we have far too many professors that no longer care about scholarly work and chase cocktail parties and mcmansions.
It might weed out some of the ones that are in it for those reasons. Purely anectdotal, but if I could make 30 - 40 K in my area (this would put my family comfortably within the middle class), have the summers off to unwind, do some research, maybe draft some papers, plan for upcoming classes (where I didn't have to worry about the PC police and easily triggered non-students, got to enforce some standards) -- I'd be a happy camper.
Some of them make quite a bit -- especially when considering their work load.
At 2 state colleges, I personally know of at least 4 professors who are making over 100K per annum and who are not even teaching full work loads -- this at a time when one of the colleges is in severe financial straits, to the point they laid off the majority of their support/maintenance staff as well as some of their adjunct instructors (which, along with the un-tenured, is where the "professors make very little money" comes from -- nah, they usually don't get paid for shit; I know, I was one).
This also happens within public schools.
In most areas you can look up their pay if it's a public university. Why not give it a try? Most professors at all colleges near me make a minimum of 70k a year, with the majority being over 115k a year. Keep in mind this is for people who work anywhere from 2-4 days a week, typically, and are always lazy and delayed in their duties.
They also do a pathetically low amount of work compared to other professors, and it's an entry level position. If they're even decent at their job, they won't stay an adjunct professor for long.
And no, they don't pay their own money via grants. That's asinine.
Could you please explain the significance of this phrase? Ironically, it sounds like that phrase itself is a, "talking point." You have no real argument, and you are trying to strawman and artificially discredit any points made against you by just calling them, "talking points."
Nah, they really don't -- pay them enough so that they are comfortably middle class within their school district, can live there and raise a family like everybody else, maybe they'd be a bit more committed to teaching.
Same goes for the universities...we have far too many professors that no longer care about scholarly work and chase cocktail parties and mcmansions.
It might weed out some of the ones that are in it for those reasons. Purely anectdotal, but if I could make 30 - 40 K in my area (this would put my family comfortably within the middle class), have the summers off to unwind, do some research, maybe draft some papers, plan for upcoming classes (where I didn't have to worry about the PC police and easily triggered non-students, got to enforce some standards) -- I'd be a happy camper.
most university professors make very little money, you are repeating talking points
Some of them make quite a bit -- especially when considering their work load.
At 2 state colleges, I personally know of at least 4 professors who are making over 100K per annum and who are not even teaching full work loads -- this at a time when one of the colleges is in severe financial straits, to the point they laid off the majority of their support/maintenance staff as well as some of their adjunct instructors (which, along with the un-tenured, is where the "professors make very little money" comes from -- nah, they usually don't get paid for shit; I know, I was one). This also happens within public schools.
bhaahahahahah.
In most areas you can look up their pay if it's a public university. Why not give it a try? Most professors at all colleges near me make a minimum of 70k a year, with the majority being over 115k a year. Keep in mind this is for people who work anywhere from 2-4 days a week, typically, and are always lazy and delayed in their duties.
They also do a pathetically low amount of work compared to other professors, and it's an entry level position. If they're even decent at their job, they won't stay an adjunct professor for long.
And no, they don't pay their own money via grants. That's asinine.
Keep repeating talking points, that will surely show me
"talking points"
Could you please explain the significance of this phrase? Ironically, it sounds like that phrase itself is a, "talking point." You have no real argument, and you are trying to strawman and artificially discredit any points made against you by just calling them, "talking points."