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Pointing out that the Teacher’s Union has bought influence - which included how the CDC worded announcements re COVID and teachers - isn’t denigrating teachers. It’s pointing our that Democrat-supporting unions are bad news. So I’m not sure what’s “on me.”
And the feds do get involved when banks make risky loans to people. Taxpayers end up bailing them out.
Teaching is a fairly stable job. So overall probably not many risky loans. Obviously this whole thing is the dems pandering to teachers and the teachers unions. It is a smart way to get more democrat voters. Republicans in congress will fight this and look anti teacher.
All depends on the area. A starting salary of $46k (and remember, summers off) would allow a 22-year-old to double up and share a two-bedroom apartment. Every new college graduate I knew does that. There are very few who can afford their own place in the early years, often through their 20s.
Also, a salary near $50k (starting salary, you say) can be quite comfortable depending on location. My cousin earns only around $50k and recently bought her own single-family house.
As you note, the premise of the thread is primarily that teachers are not on the same level as those who risked their lives during COVID - police, medical, firefighters. That they are lumped in with this bill is ridiculous.
well, the premise of the thread - and basically all of your posts in it - is to diminish the importance of teachers. That you cannot even try to deny.
Teachers have some advantages, time-wise.
They do get all Federal Holidays off that are during the school year, and let's throw in 5 extra. They do get about 14 days off over December/early Jan. They do get mid-June to mid-August off (60 days, not 3 months). And of course, they don't work weekends. But they basically arrive at 7, leave at 3 (that's an 8 hour day) with usually not more than either a) a 30 minute lunch and/or b) a 45 minute "planning period".
Regardless, what should be the point of the thread is that the Federal government has no damn reason to get even more involved with the mortgage market, when in any semi-suburban/urban location, the Banks all have programs that would meet these needs.
You people are aware that Banks fall all over themselves to offer 100% loans to fresh Med school grads and some newly-minted attorneys, right?
A starting salary for a 10-month job is $53,000?! That’s pretty decent money for a 22-year-old.
And that fact that many teachers go their entire lives without nearing $100k? Same thing with plenty, if not most, of other professions - and those people have to work the entire year.
Also, I was hesitant to say this, but I will now: education majors have the lowest average IQ of all college majors. The fact that teachers, of very average intelligence, work partial years and earn into the 80s and 90s, by mid-career, is a nice life. No special “privilege” for mortgages should be set for them.
Here ya go. After 20 years, teachers are getting in the 80s and 90s, and after 25 years, it’s mostly 90s with some touching $100k. (Pulli to the faculty parking lot, and you see Lexuses and BMWs galore.)
And the other point is, lumping teachers - who never even had to leave the house while earning full pay - in with those in the front line - like firemen, police, medical personnel - just cries of Teacher Union influence.
What state is this pay scale from. In our state you can't teach with a license or a bachelor degree. You need to be accepted into the school of education which is hard to get into. And my sister has a masters in special ed. She's been teaching for decades and doesn't even make $100,000.
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