It used to be that teachers were primarily married women with husbands who made more than enough to support them. So pay wasn’t an issue, they did it simply because they enjoyed teaching.
>>It used to be that teachers were primarily married women with husbands who made more than enough to support them. So pay wasn’t an issue, they did it simply because they enjoyed teaching.
Yep. The sad thing is that I know many married couples where the female teacher is the primary breadwinner because she has great benefits and a steady paycheck, while the husband is forced to find work on the outsourced economy competing with import labor. The bottom line is that a teacher is still just a government employee and they make darn good money for this particular time and, like all government workers, enjoy job stability that most Americans can only dream of.