FYI. You seem to think that teachers get a lot of “government benefits.” I know several teachers who cannot even go to the doctor when they are sick, because the insurance the state provides has over $1000 for the deductable and even then it rarely pays. My friend had a baby, NO MATERNITY LEAVE. After her 5 sick days ran out, they divided her pay by the number of days she works and took that fraction out EACH DAY. She owed them money for insurance when she returned to work. Teachers get state retirement, and contrary to what the public believes, they do not get paid for staying home in the summer. They get their pay divided by 12 in order to get paid in the summer FOR WORK THEY HAVE ALREADY DONE.
So to the man whose wife “still has her job,” you better make sure you keep yours, because you will not be able to retire on what her retirement will be. Hopefully you will make more than her, because with her pay going down, someone has to support you two.
Hopefully you can get health insurance if you lose your job, because it will cost over $1000 a month for her to add you on to hers! You make sure you have your own retirement or you and your wife will be working way past 65.
Well, not trying to be cold snoopy but facts are facts. Average teacher salary in the state of Texas is slightly over 42K per year. Considering they only work 9 months out of the year for that 42K they are very well paid indeed. As far as the deductible, well I have to pay for my health insurance and the deductible is 1k also. Now let’s talk about job security. It’s true some teachers can end up losing their job but they are many times less likely to end up unemployed than someone not working for the government. Also one last statistic is that 50% of the people working in public education are NOT teachers. Can you imagine a major corporation employing tens of thousands of workers where half the employees were managers? Only Government can create this kind of inefficiency.