Why be a public school teacher? (suspect, dollar, county, retirement)
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You do know that most teachers are not paid for the summer, unless they work summer school.
Summer break is sans pay.
Most School districts pro rate the pay over the course of 12 months. Very few only get pay checks for only 9 months. So a Wisconsin teacher who makes 100,000 gets that whether they are in work in the summer or not. the summer you have an option of getting another job for 3 months to make more money. So the teachers get paid to work 9 months minus two weeks at Christmas and one week at spring break while getting the regular holidays off also. So in fact the work cycle ON lasts 8 months and one week. Ho bet you can get alot of people wanting those Wisconsin teacher jobs for 100,000 a year for 8 months and one week work. Do teachers work hard in that time , yes. Do they get hassled by parents administration and kids, yes. Are most happy with their time off to recover, yes. Most are hard working people dedicated to kids. Not many people in other fields get 3 months and 3 weeks off a year.
I would like to know how many of you would invest the money and time to become and remain a public school teacher even if you disregarded the current animosity directed at the Teachers of wisconsin?
This is what you don't understand........it is not animosity towards the Teachers per se it is towards the Union that they are a part of and that represents them. You know , I hate to say this but we so very often here the left describe Conservatives and Tea Party types as a bunch of sheep blindly following Limbaugh,Beck,Fox,Hannity,etc etc etc.........It really is laughable.... However there really is no better example of that than the Teachers and Unions in general.
"The foundation initially obtained the data for its “CalSTRS $100,000 pension club†database in May 2009. Back then there were 3,010 retirees earning $100,000 or more annually from CalSTRS. Earlier this month, the foundation obtained updated data from CalSTRS and the number has grown to 5,308 (5,309 if you count one woman earning $99,998.88)."
"And that’s not all. The foundation, run by President Marcia Fritz, also requested a list of CalSTRS retirees earning $75,000 or more annually. Guess how many CalSTRS pensioners are earning between $75,000 and $99,999.99. 19,503."
And that is for retired teachers. Holy cow!!!!!!!!
I would like to know how many of you would invest the money and time to become and remain a public school teacher even if you disregarded the current animosity directed at the Teachers of wisconsin?
The answer is simple. Only those who care about teaching children should become school teachers. I'm not taking any of this WI/union crap into consideration here.
Yeah, it is. That is a lot of tax payer money to a lot of people. Especially when we are told NO teachers make this.
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