New York, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey have teachers making over $100,000 a year. There are other states that have teachers making over $100,000 a year.
Furthermore teaching is a part time job and no my gym teacher did not stay up to midnight grading papers every night and neither did most of my teachers.
The big lie in MA is that teachers start in Boston at $21,000 with a Masters. The Boston Teacher’s Union own web site has them starting at $45,000.
I knew that some made $75,000 a year, but didn’t know some made $100,000. I guess that’s the power of unions! It is a part time job—two weeks off over Christmas, a week in the spring, and all summer. I agree that teachers probably aren’t up late grading papers, particularly gym teachers and grade school teachers. The argument is always “why does someone make $20,000,000 a year for hitting a baseball, but a teacher makes $50,000 a year? Teachers are government employees. Baseball players operate on the open market. There are thousands of good teachers in the world, but only a select few can hit a baseball like Albert Pujols, and the market supports it.