But they are so underpaid! And it is unfair to point out that they get the entire summer off! [/s]
Government schools should be ended. All education should be handled through the family or through private businesses which attract customers by providing excellent service at a fair price.
At some point, like the mortgage-bubble of 2008...this teacher-pay-bubble will burst, and you might see a whole school system shut down for twelve months as they figure out to do more with less.
This is the end result of countless PR campaigns to pass bills and public referenda to increase teacher pay. The original “for the children.”
If you have a choice, buy an inexpensive home. Save the money you’d be paying some retirees to live large and put it aside toward your own retirement.
“Educators”
Not really
Pay the teachers more and the educrats less, even maybe get rid of some! Of course, if you get rid of the gravy train, maybe some of those overpaid and unnecessary “education administrators” would look for other work.
Here at the university-we have professors who won’t even pick up a phone or answer an e mail during ‘break’
They adhere to their union contractual arrangement.
In the mean time... staff works all year and right through lunch on a regular basis. Of course there is no compensation for taking care of problems, answering the phone... etc. during lunch or if you happen to come in early. You just do it.
What a waste of taxpayer money. Of course, they are always underpaid and overworked.
Here in NY, when my kids’ kindergarten teacher retired, she went out and bought a Mercedes E 4Matic coupe to celebrate.
I am very glad I left that butthole state back in the late 70s. The handwriting was on the wall back then. The teachers unions were starting to take over the schools 10 years earlier than that.