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Low pay? JUst how much does a Chicago teacher get? And for working about 2/3 as many days as most of the people that pay their salaries. 5.5 hours a day is all they work? And they still aren't even proposing a full day's work from them?
Yes, low pay. You are so ignorant to think that teachers work only a 5.5 hours a day Your mentality can't comprehend that teachers spend their own money on their classroooms. Teachers spend hours at home working on the assignments for the next week. They spend hours grading papers.
Try teaching and come back to me with your assessment. Until then, you are just an uneducated observer who thinks he knows it all.
Unless you are a teacher you have no idea what teachers deal with on a day to day basis. Why anyone would want to become a teacher with the low pay they receive is beyond me. Teachers don't get into this profession to become rich. They do it because they care. But no one seems to appreciate them and just blame them for everything.
All jobs have their downside and low pay is BS, The teachers in my area with about 25 years in are making about $70K plus the $20K helath care package plus the pension plus.......
All told the job is worth $100k a year, that's not low pay.
My father retired from teaching Elementary levels all of his career at $90,000/yr. over 22 years ago.
That was just pay,ot including benefits.
Lifetime healthcare after that too
No, he was not in a well to do district either.
And who said the job was dangerous Are you a teacher, are your family members teachers. If they are not then you have no idea what you are talking about do you. So stop pretending that you do
I don't know where teacher ranks but I can guarantee you it doesn't rank that high. You know what one of the most dangerous jobs in this country is? Store clerk. Another one in the top ten is driver.
Yes, low pay. You are so ignorant to think that teachers work only a 5.5 hours a day Your mentality can't comprehend that teachers spend their own money on their classroooms. Teachers spend hours at home working on the assignments for the next week. They spend hours grading papers.
Try teaching and come back to me with your assessment. Until then, you are just an uneducated observer who thinks he knows it all.
Many professionals work far more than 8 hours at the office and still more at home.
My father retired from teaching Elementary levels all of his career at $90,000/yr. over 22 years ago.
That was just pay,ot including benefits.
Lifetime healthcare after that too
No, he was not in a well to do district either.
You and your father benefitted and continue to benefit from the unions and yet you condemn the teachers union? Seems a bit hypocritical if you ask me.
This is not a smart move, certainly at this time. Some Unions do not get it. There complaint is about accurate problems, but the timing of the method of working on those, is awfully self-defeating. Poor Union Leadership in Chicago.
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Your mentality can't comprehend that teachers spend their own money on their classroooms. Teachers spend hours at home working on the assignments for the next week. They spend hours grading papers.
Are you a teacher, are your family members teachers. If they are not then you have no idea what you are talking about do you. So stop pretending that you do
Chicago Teacher's Strike
