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Originally Posted by '73 H1 Triple
It's time for the overly compensated teachers ( and especially the admins ) to get a dose of reality. WTF should they have a "golden parachute" of a retirement plan and pay next to nothing for for benefits when in the real world it doesn't work that way?
Don't give that bullshit of taking work home, they knew the "rules" when they picked that career.
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Well, for starters, when they picked that career part of the "rules" were they got a certain retirement package if they could put up with America's snot nosed punks for 20 years.
But, more to the point, what is this Kool-Aid that everyone seems to be drinking regarding teachers' compensation? My mother, who is generally up until midnight or later every week night grading papers or doing some other school related work, gets paid roughly $30,000 a year. She has been a teacher for 30 years. She works
at school 9 hours or more a day, at least once a week sacrificing a lunch hour (actually, 25 minutes) to watch the affore mentioned snot nosed punks and make sure they're not hitting each other over the head with lead pipes, or some other such nonsense (thankfully, gun violence due to poor parenting has not made it to her school yet). Some weeks she gets to sacrifice an hour of sleep everyday to get there early and make sure your little darlings aren't jumping in front of busses before school.
Summers off? My ass. She has less than a month during the summer when she's not doing some sort of work for school. Factor in the unpaid overtime throughout the school year and I guarantee you it's a fucking wash with the hours you work. Besides which, summer "vacations" themselves are less than 2 1/2 months, after which time parents are generally jumping through their asses to get their "little angels" the fuck out of their hair and back to school so the teachers can deal with them.
Overly compensated? UAW workers get paid $30 an hour or more for
job placement training. In other words, if their company wants to fire them or lay them off, they have to
pay them to look for work, while they go through a job placement course that in the military we called TAMPS (and lasted a week or less). You want union fat cats, look at Detroit. You want overpaid government workers, look at TSA. I fucking guarantee you that you got more for your money from teachers like my mom over the years than you did from either of those two classes of extortionists.