Yes but is there a connection between effort and reward? My wife could do nothing performance wise that would better herself. She was on the same pay scale as every other teacher. It paid the same for the excellent and terrible ones.
Did she know that before taking the job?
If I end up having to deal with the aftermath of someone with a backhoe who cuts a fiber trunk for 20+ hours. I make not one thin dime for my time because I'm salary. It's all just a part of the job, much the same way as it is for teachers. I don't go around complaining to people about having to spend 36 hours in a computer room because we lost the boot disk on a rather large system that died because of a failure of an air-conditioning unit. It's a part of the job. I might grumble about it privately occasionally, but even when I do, I know that it's just a part of the job and I don't expect people to pity me and demand I be better compensated because of it.
Teachers should know what they are getting into given that most of them have spent a considerable amount of time in the crapholes we call our public schools.I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for them at all.
Sorry, but my Give-A-Damn is busted,