“76 Gs is not a huge salary”
How does it compare to the Median income for Chicago? Probably at least 30 grand more. And that’s not including benefits, nor factoring in hours worked per day and the tact that they’re off for three months a year.
I realize the entire point of unions and government monopolies is not to think about it, but what would these teachers make if they had to compete with everyone else in the job market and schools had to compete with every other expenditure? Not this much.
These jobs need a high salary to retain personnel and even so they have a high burnout rate and escape (to the suburbs) rate.
School systems are probably the political entities closest to the People and easiest to get under their control.
So it is obvious that Education is something people like to bitch and moan about but rarely do anything.
This class warfare is not worthy of FR. And at any rate the real question is not what the average income in Chicago but what the average income FOR COLLEGE GRADUATES in Chicago is. Would you not suspect that it would be close to the avg for teachers? And a large percentage of teachers have Masters degree.
Do people have no analytic abilities at all?