Teachers are overpaid. They work less than anyone else, they have high pay for not doing anything. Its the easiest job. You work 5 days a week, you have Winter vacation and Summer vacation off, you have all holidays off and your job requires u to mostly sit and explain things. They are OVERPAID and entitled and most of teachers out their frustrations on students. Defund them if they don’t wanna work, they are too much paid for not working.
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Yeah, I am going to have to push back on that. The outside perception doesn't equal the actual work done. I can't speak for every teacher, but even though my wife is on "summer break" she is in daily meetings planning for this upcoming year.
During school hours even though her contract has her off at 3:30, she works well past 5 and is REQUIRED to be in faculty meetings after school and constant school functions. Contract also states she gets a planning period, but isn't honored. Her class is well above capacity and is graded on the performance of each individual student who come with their own individual learning issues. Teachers are trained to teach and in my wife's situation she is really good at it.
Trust me when I say teaching is a difficult job and warrants much higher pay which would increase the caliber of teacher. Teaching, like police officers and nurses are under appreciated blue collar jobs that need more support not less.
I agree, however, that kids need to return to school and we need to stop politicizing this BS.
Teachers are not overpaid but they should not be paid if they refuse to go back to work
Agree completely
Yes, but many teachers love that union.
I will continually say this in all these posts about teachers. School vouchers. Federal funds should be available to the parents to decide where they want their kids to get an education.
This will have the unintended positive benefit of driving the market as well. Good schools will want to hire good teachers who will get paid more.
We make about $30-40 an hour depending on experience and education. But that’s just for the hours “on the job.” This doesn’t include planning and grading and whatever else might need to be done before or after school. And this isn’t all year round. We work 190 days for 8 hours a day. How much do you think we should get? Minimum wage? $15/hr?
I’ll agree that shitty teachers are overpaid. Good ones aren’t. In fact, I’d be all for making teaching more competitive and easier to be fired. Shit teachers are common, unfortunately. But, the truly good ones are invaluable.
And look, I’m not a great teacher. In fact, I’ve been trying to leave the profession for a while now. But I do my job. When my wife finally graduates from college, I think I’m done. I just want you to understand that if you haven’t actually spent a day with 30 kids trying to teach them the Pythagorean theorem, then shut the fuck up.
I have two teachers in my family returning to school to change professions. Both said they loved the pay and summer off but felt that most teachers really don't work too hard for their money. They both wanted out and this is their chance.
$40 an hour to pump out illiterate children seems like a sweet deal.
As a sped teacher you’re lucky if they’re only illiterate.
Send the money from the feds direct to the parents who home school
Get rid of tenure as well. No one should be able to be practically unfireable just because they pretended to be nice a couple of years in a row.
Especially tenure must go. Its a recipe to quit performing