Are Teachers Underpaid?

Do you realize that their 'yearly' salary is only for 9 months of work and that they get ridiculous pensions paid at taxpayer expense. Isn't something like 70% of their full salary for life?

No actually teachers are bankrupting the nation and it starts with their union, which promotes godless Marxism as a replacement for American values.

Do you realize that their 'yearly' salary is only for 9 months of work and that they get ridiculous pensions paid at taxpayer expense. Isn't something like 70% of their full salary for life?

No actually teachers are bankrupting the nation and it starts with their union, which promotes godless Marxism as a replacement for American values.

I've said this many times on here...I live in Germany but I'm from OHIO.

No, they will be mandatory.
And there will be only one:

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Get a clue, half your class is illiterate in high school, discipline is considered Taboo and then this happens far too often...

Student Spiked Teacher's Coffee With Butt Pills

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or its strawberry something or other in your coffee if someone learns your allergic

Summers off are required to regain health and well being.

Don't make me blush.
I bet my husband would allow it too.
He's always saying "Brief is so awesome, he's so funny"

Don't make me blush.
I bet my husband would allow it too.
He's always saying "Brief is so awesome, he's so funny"

I agree. Brief is a great guy.

True that.

But again:

"Once NWO comes, the flags will be banned."

Is everyone stupid in the States?

Illiteracy and discipline are the problem not money.
Teachers have control over neither.

The system passes illiterate students on to 'protect their egos', the university trainers teach the teachers that to "teach and test vocabulary is like stabbing a child in the back."

The university system also trains teachers and admin that discipline is ??? A student can throw a teacher over a desk, stab at a fellow student with a piece of glass, fan a flaming paper on a bulletin board, or and be back sitting in that same class the next day or 15" later.

That's cool, but he's not invited...when I do a three way, it's with two chicks...but I'd have a beer with him after

you know they won't kick students out - there goes their money! There go the teacher units! There go the accolades for being tops in dropout prevention! No, they keep the baddies in school with babysitters - ha ha community activists - their same race of course who PLEAD with them to stay in school.

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You of course are not addressing that interrogative to me, because if you are, I have to respond with "Only 47% are stupid, the same percentage of Serbians who know who their fathers are".

Yes, those poor striking teachers only $79,000. a year!!
I mean WTF!? anyway. Thats like only 2 houses and a car here, things many work a lifetime for, should be given away for sure.

Bad news is, it would probably cost more to employ any without a socialist marxist slant and who can actually read and write, so looks like we all screwed for life.

Do you ever get tired of being correct?

My answer was maybe. Just as in other professions, some teachers work above and beyond what is expected of them. These teachers so deserve more money.
Unfortunately,they, in my experience, are a small minority. What I've seen first hand are resentful shrewish women and men who don't like their jobs and who don't like their students. From upper elementary on, they want to be cool and a member of one of the student in cliques. They abuse the authority they have over the students.
These have been my observations after dong volunteer work in schools for more than 30 years. I will say that the teachers 25-30 years ago were more dedicated and actually tried to teach. The kids respected them. Sure they joked about them but in the classroom, they showed respect and were obedient.

hmmm, there are even schools who will lie
on the attendance at the 'drop date' to get the state funds

25+ years ago we behaved in class...
25+ years ago teachers were trained to teach
basics and then build upon them.

Now they are trained that books are bad, vocab is bad
and math? That new math mess? Well just look
at the declining test results to see how successful that agenda was. Not.

There are less and less older teachers, so yes the younger ones were more cliquish with the kids.
The older teachers mostly quit.

My kids used to always tell me "Miss you are not cool."
To which I replied. "I never have been."

I had to reteach kids in Chem class algebra in a traditional manner so they could actually do traditional Chem Science. By the end of the year they finally said " ah, now we understand why it has to be done that way."

The new ed solution? Change science so it can be buried next to math.

I'm always hearing how underpaid teachers are. I've read different things. I know as a teacher most days I feel underpaid, I feel overly stressed and beat down physically and emotionally.
But are we really as underpaid as everyone thinks?

“The demands of the job require that teachers make hundreds of decisions, large and small, each day, that they work for hours after the school day ends, and that they continuously engage in professional development activities to remain current. It’s quite intense. These are factors that very, very few private sector jobs require, and those that do compensate handsomely.”
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"Raising pay alone won't boost teacher quality. Economist Dale Ballou shows that better qualified teacher applicants - such as those from more competitive colleges, with higher GPAs, and specializing in subject areas such as math and science - are actually lesslikely to be hired than other applicants, probably because principals and superintendents are biased toward the traditional teacher education route. Ballou and Michael Podgurskyshow that raising pay without reforms would draw more applicants and keep older teachers from retiring, potentially lowering the quality of the teacher workforce."
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So as a tax paying citizen what do you think? Do you think teachers bitch to much about their pay or do you think they don't deserve the pay they get?