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Really? Well you spend four years in college getting your teaching degree and go spend some time in an inner city public school and get back to us on you being over paid.
oh, I am sure a teaching degree is really "difficult." and be honest, most teachers have normal degrees that are viewed as worthless in society. sociology, english, etc. I am not saying they are worthless, but it does not impress employers. why do you bring up inner city public schools?
where I live, they START, fresh out of college at just under $50,000 a year for a PART TIME JOB. yes, teaching is a part time job. if you broke it down by the hour, they are making between $35-$40 an hour. again, what job starts at this salary right out of college with zero experience?
I'd like to see an actual job announcement bulletin with your claims.
I have been racking my brain, and I can't think of another. I mean, outside the realm of the entertainment industry. yet time and time again, it's teachers that are the most vocal about being underpaid, whatever that really means. underpaid compared to what I often wonder. so can anyone think of a profession more overpaid than teaching?
Underpaid compared to what other first world countries pay their teachers.
Bankers and stock brokers are the most overpaid. A beginning stock broker, nothing but essentially a ticket runner, starts on the average of $66, 500 a year pre bonuses. Their wages are only a fraction of their total salary; commissions and a yearly bonus for the same beginner can make his total salary well over $250,000 a year for a bottom of the totem pole job. And that's on the first year.
In comparison, a beginning teacher makes 1/10th of that. Re-rack your brain.
yeah, um, no. teachers here make $50k. your arbitrary faux stock broker doesn't really do much for your argument.
how much do they make a day of work. they don't work all year. several vacations throughout the year. I think they should get incentives if their children succeed. but how do we measure that. if we use a federal standard, then we are screwed. the federal education set the standard so low so that no one is left behind. our school system will continue to suffer as long as the federal government in involved
That isn't true, and the ones I know pull far more hours than my paltry 40/wk at a job that pays nearly six figures. I know some teachers who pull 60-80 hour weeks during the school year easily, and their summers are occupied with mandatory training and workshops.
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A second job during the summer making even more money doesn't count.
Let's see, is $51,000 a year for 27 years experience and 3 Master's degrees your definition of being overpaid? If so, sure, teachers are overpaid. Maybe you ought to get your teaching certification so you can be disgustingly rich too.
27 years of teaching experience? so you never moved up? you just did the same job and expected more money? wonder if the lifetime burger flipper keeps getting raises for job stagnation.
where I live, they START, fresh out of college at just under $50,000 a year for a PART TIME JOB. yes, teaching is a part time job. if you broke it down by the hour, they are making between $35-$40 an hour. again, what job starts at this salary right out of college with zero experience?
parttime job???
they have to be at school BEFORE the kids they have to leave AFTER the kids...the kids are there for 7.5 hours
working 8 hours a day...FULL TIME JOB
most are doing 50-80 hour per week...and manditory teacher work days when the kids are off
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