The BLS report means nothing ... we are still grossly underpaid ... you stupid Freepers!
The BLS report means nothing ... we are still grossly underpaid ... you stupid Freepers!
I have an MBA and the average teacher in this county makes more than I do.
“”Public School Teachers Are Highest Paid State Workers””
Why are teachers considered state workers? Their salaries certainly aren’t paid by the state, are they? Aren’t all school districts the ones who pay the salaries?
A lot of questions, I know but I’m confused!!
Not so in Texas.
Of course teachers will say they do ‘so much!’ work for class at home and after school that they don’t get paid for....
You can talk to them until you are blue in the face that most salaries private sector employees do too - but they just don’t hear you.
They always compare themselves to factory shift-work (punch the clock) employees that get paid over-time if they do anything extra - that’s the wrong comparison. There are millions of people working salaried jobs that take their work home and work before and after ‘hours’ that make half their wage.(If they are lucky)
Since teachers aren’t paid hourly, and since most government workers are salaried, it’s hard to compare with manufacturing hourly workers.
Nonetheless, American manufacturing has been seriously injured by cheap labor in China, Thailand, and the serf-ocracies. We allow their anti-free market products into our country so that American goods are non-competitive price-wise.
The only response of companies is to pay the lowest wages possible to compete with overseas workers making slave wages. That drives those wages down.
Are there some teachers not worth their pay? I’m sure there are. I’m sure there are hourly workers not worth their pay.
I know a local high school calculus teacher, though, who is among the best of the best. Former students in college and in engineering firms still call with tough problems.
How many can do what this teacher can do?
Very damn few can compete with brilliant.
There is a GREAT dissimilarity between the pay that UNION TEACHERS receive (I.E. Northern/Blue states) and NON-UNION TEACHERS receive.
Non-union is pretty much on scale with the private sector. I, in fact, was dropped $500 in pay and have not received my scheduled pay increase for 3 years due to state cuts. I love my job so I don’t think too much about it.
Union teachers make a truck load of money and they are thoroughly protected after their third year.
I am a former private school teacher and I can tell you that public school teachers (in Texas) make at least twice as much as private school teachers. With a master’s degree and 12 years teaching experience, I still didn’t make even close to what public school, first year teachers, no graduate degree made... None of our teachers did.
“RESIST WE MUCH!”