Posted on 10/03/2019 11:21:55 AM PDT by karpov
None of them work 12 months a year and as for college professors, they ALL have grad assistants and others who stand in for them. Many of them tech ONE class a term and are receiving ‘princely’ salaries. All the do is whine.
I had a teacher tell me she thought teachers should be paid as much as doctors because their job was just as important. I have no doubt she really believes that, and she isn’t alone.
teachers generally work approximately 180 days per year.
for this they receive their salary and healthcare benefits. after 20 or 25 years they are generally allowed to retire with a pension that is based on their salary during the most recent years and they also generally receive health benefits in retirement.
during their working years, the salary and benefits are generally as good or better than what the taxpayers who pay those costs receive for working a full year.
the retirement benefits are much better than the average benefits received by those taxpayers who pay the retirement costs. the taxpayers usually have to work to age 65 to collect whatever retirement benefits for which they may be eligible.
the teachers have been soaking the taxpayers for years. school districts, in order to cover the ever increasing cost of salaries, pensions and healthcare, continue to reduce the programs and activities available to students.
wake up and start attending your school board meetings.
Teachers maybe weren’t paid well 50 years ago but they have been overpaid for at least the last 25 years.
When she’s gotta have a 2 AM french fry fix, maybe that fry cook needs to get heart surgeons’ pay.
Teachers are mostly OVERPAID. You know, if they don’t like the pay, then get into another profession. I am sick to death of hearing about the poor ole’ teachers!
They only work 180 days a year..they have the best racket going...they cannot get fired...so most do the minimum...My wife was a first second teacher...her kids could read and do math..and she made class time fun..,
Some teachers just do paperwork for the kids to do..
A math class in my wife class was here is a watermelon...we cut in half...it is a circle...then a half and then a quarter..we count the seeds and put them in sats of tens..we graph the number of seeds..there was other stuff but I can not remember..
It's percentage pay increases that have caused older teachers at the high end to be over paid, and young, new teachers to be under paid.
IMHO there should be no pay increases at the high end for a while, and flat dollar increases at the low end to help them catch up.
Then flat dollar from then on.
I brought this up at a school meeting, and you should have heard the older teachers howl.
They are the ones on the negotiating committees.
It's obvious they couldn't care less about the under paid teachers, just greedy.
When a young person is just starting out they have a LOT of expenses.
Everybody gets paid for the days they work, and not for the days they don't. If you wanted to negotiate 12 monthly checks for your 9 months work, you could do so. It'd just be politically unwise. "Vacation pay" is just the employer spreading money from days you work over the days you don't, for folks who can't budget.
FYI, employers don't pay for SocSec either, it all comes out of the same employee cost line on their budget.
After a diagnosis of terminal lung cancer, Walter White vows to earn $750,000 to assure his children's education, pay off his house, and give his wife extra spending money.
As far as I know, the show never mentions the low six figure life insurance policy from his job benefits package.
Nor does it mention the life time survivor's benefits that his wife and autistic child will receive from his pension plan.
Most ridiculous of all - Walter White works summers and weekends as a near minimum wage cashier at a car wash. As a private math and science tutor, White could have been earning $50 an hour.
Anyway - the basic premise of the show is that Walt's family will be left penniless after his death, which is a total crock, and which detracts from the general narrative.
The way to have teachers earn what they objectively deserve is to privatize all education. Private customers will then, using a system of free prices, declare what they believe each individual teacher deserves. The teacher will be free to accept the customers’ valuation or seek a different valuation elsewhere and/or in a different profession.
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