[mysterio]

You need to understand that these threads exist so the teacher haters can have a contest to see who hates teachers the most. This is the second thread about the same study. If they really thought teachers had such a cakewalk, they themselves would enter the profession.

My parents have both taught for 30+ years, and I'll put the amount of work they do up against any of the surfing the net on the job teacher haters

[CharacterCounts]

You need to understand that these threads exist so the teacher haters can have a contest to see who hates teachers the most.

Its sort of like those innumerable lawyer bashing threads.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

I don't believe that many expressing opinions on this thread hate teachers. I understand that you love and admire your parents and I'm sure that they have worked very hard and made a positive difference in the lives of countless children, but don't let that cloud your opinion about the subject of salary. This article clearly indicates that teachers make a decent living, when everything that we hear day-in and day-out would indicate otherwise.

From your post I could make the assumption that you hate the self-employed in this country who are able to FReep whenever they please during the day and night ... but that would probably be incorrect.

[JenB]

Maybe some of us are just frustrated because of all the teachers we've met who insist it's so hard to teach kids that only a trained professional could do it and any parent who dares try to educate their own kid is going to handicap them. Or paying for a worthless, failing system and then paying double to make sure our kids actually get educated.

Yeah it's a cakewalk, I plan to be a teacher one of these days. When I have kids and homeschool them. And we won't take all summer off either.