Most people are taught that in school. They don’t know how much teachers are paid but they “know” that teachers are underpaid.
Not too shabby for a job with a 3 month vacation every year.
Compare that to a truck driver who might make $65,000 but only gets home for 18 to 24 hours every 3 weeks or more.
It’s administration (principal, AP, Dean, etc.) that are over-paid, not to mention the myriad assortment of “educators” in the “education” industry who draw a government salary merely by having an “education” degree and being registered Dems.
A survey was done in about 1990, when there was a rash of teacher strikes in Pennsylvania.
It was found that teachers made about the same as equivalently experienced and educated private sector employees, who worked twelve months a year compared to nine by teachers. Furthermore, the survey found that the benefit packages were worth twice that of equivalent private sector employees.
Become a football coach in Alabama or Georgia is the deal. Coaches around here in counties near the state lines, coach long enough in either state to earn their teachers pension and then retire and come over to the other state and start on another pension. Coaches can go for many years, 20 or so at both states and earn nice pensions.
The strongest force in America is teacher greed. When I hear one complain, I ask them if they would trade jobs with a caseworker at a welfare office.
but its all part of them framing the dialog...
which is every time there's a teachers strike its because the teachers are practically slaves, not that they enjoy the most lucrative job in America as far as stability...never get fired...wages....benefits...pensions and of course, they're enormous amount of time off....weekends...holidays...curriculum days....extra days at holidays and the famed Christmas break and spring break....
If you average in the salaries of teaching nuns, it weighs down the whole average.
They are looking at the wrong statistic, the salary of public school teachers is the issue, not “teachers” in general.
I have relatives who are teachers, most could not hack it in the real world.
The same is probably true for cops. I often hear how little they are paid...
The Unionization of Public Employees is a self-serving money-laundering operation of the Democrat Party, period.
UNTIL we get Unions OUT of the public sector, Democrats will continue the ever-increasing increases in spending of taxpayer earnings on the ever-decreasing quality of the Indoctrination Centers (aka: pulik skoolz)
Too much in my opinion. Education degrees are ridiculous tripe - that includes the masters degrees.
Credit the poor-mouthing teachers’ unions for that.
They should be happy they are not paid what they are worth.
Surely, for at least some of those teachers it's not a question of being forced to work those jobs, but of just wanting to make some money during the summer.
But teachers (and unions) have gotten so used to complaining it's hard to see them stopping no matter how much money they make.
$55,000.00 divided by 180 days of work = $305.00 per day.
$305.00 divided by 7 hours a day = $43.57 per hour.
Underpaid, they say?
$55,000.00 divided by 180 days of work = $305.00 per day.
$305.00 divided by 7 hours a day = $43.57 per hour.
Underpaid, they say?
Keep in mind that the “yearly” salaries for teachers are based on 9 or 10 month “years” not 12 months like regular jobs.