While I can agree you couldn't pay me enough to be a school teacher, looking at our local districts pay database from 2010 the average pay was ~$60K.
Perhaps I'm out of touch but would most people not consider $60K/yr decent pay?? Especially for a job where you get 3 months off in the summer time?
Factor in almost perfect job security, health benefits, and a pension Ray. Then how does it seem? Oh, and they can take summers off, or work, their choice. I have no problem with teacher's being well paid -- the work they do is crucial -- but the unions insist on zero accountability, and no other option to solve problems aside from more teachers and more money.
But the first step is getting rid of the teacher's unions, unfortunately.
And that's your real motive. Not better education for children, just union-bashing like you've done in so many other threads here.
Yes, my real motive is to annihilate teacher's unions (not teachers, just the unions) because they're hurting children. They don't give a damn about children or their education, only power. Americans must break the teacher's unions monopolistic stranglehold on education. A case in point -- Harlem Success Academy Charter Schools. Run by a woman named Eva Moskowitz, these schools have improved the educations of the most at-risk children in NYC. Their success rates with children are nearly inverse to the success rate for public schools. And naturally, the UFT (United Federation of Teachers) hound them at every turn.
Why? Because mediocrity is the natural enemy of success. If people see great alternatives to public schools, that chips away at the unions' power, and they can't have that. So they're doing everything in their power to stop the success.
You make it seem like the average american can afford to pay for this stuff.. LOLOL
The teachers union is there to create teachers AT ALL.. it's NOT a good job.. typically only the lowest line of graduates enter k-12 teaching..
I'm not saying it's not important, that's just the nature of field.
being a teacher is like being a parent. Parenting is statistically among people's LEAST favorite things to do..
You always hear moms and dads tell you about how their kids make them happy.. hahaha.. they're lying through their teeth to cover up their misery..
A teacher is like parents ++... by far one of the worst jobs.. because you work with the ****tiest people... KIDS...
Is it possible to make it better, sure, is it possible to be motivated, sure, but that takes fortitude that is highly paid for ELSEWHERE..
and so who's left to babysit.. hahaha we already know this.
