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Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho
I don't pretend to know much about teachers wages, benefits, and whatnot across the US, but I do know this... Of ALL of the teachers I know... and I know several... If you factor in the fact that they work 3/4 of a year instead of a full year, they make just as much money - or more - than the middle class mean. Looking at the wages, people somehow always seem to forget that they do not work a full year... $30k/yr for 9 mos out of the year = $40k compared to the rest of us. That's a siginificant difference.
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Leave that factor out because a teacher who doesn't do some work during that time off, including taking courses to improve personal standing, will be working double-time during the year.
If you don't make that money, then you don't make that money. It's not like you miraculously don't have to pay your mortgage/rent or buy food, for three months of the year.