re: More strikes ahead? Teachers say they love their jobs but can't pay their bills, poll show

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teachers should be paid more is all I know

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In some areas they make more than the average college grad while working far less

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poor things, how can they ever survive working 7 months out of the year and bringing in $70k doing it with zero accountability their students even learn anything?

i wish i had to suffer such injustice of income

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You consistently make posts with factual inaccuracies that can be disproved in less than a minute

I am a teacher so maybe my opinion doesn’t count, but I think teachers are like Fed Govt employees. You know your salary before you started, you agreed!! Just like, you knew you might be out of work if govt shutdown.

If you can’t take the good with the bad, get a different job! Plus TX teachers are paid fairly well, no complaints from me.

You're like a government employee. Sucking your employer dry due to your leeching by inefficiency, redundancy and inability to find a way to stay busy 12 months of the year rather than 6.

Sao idk bout most of us engineering folk, but I have to write a quarterly efficiency report to my LM.

We even have stupid belts to certify for sigma lean shite

How much do you bench? Max

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"If you total up all those hours, guess what I made? $2.68 an hour."

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This person is claiming that their annual salary for working 2,080 hours per year is $5,574.40 There is so much BS in that article I can't stop cringing. Has there ever been a more entitled group of people than teachers? They are far worse than nurses due to the fact that they are state employees.

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For all of the posts I read on this board bitching about teachers complaining about pay, I've never actually seen or heard a teacher complain about pay.

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Come work in a school. It’s rampant.

I can imagine living in LA or San Fran or NYC would suck as a teacher. Those places are getting ridiculous with cost of living and then to have the government do nothing to prevent extremely high class sizes (a death sentence for a good learning environment) explains why there have been strikes.

But I have had coworkers complain about their $50k/year salary with pretty much perfect benefits while working 7:30-3. That’s absurd.

Where I do think there needs to be a change in teaching is the expectations for teachers to sponsor or coach extracurricular activities. Those pay pretty much zero and can suck up 20 hours extra a week. Many places will fire non-tenured teachers or give tenured teachers difficult classes if they don’t coach. That’s bullshite. If little Johnny wants to play 9th grade football, the system should shed out the money to properly compensate someone who knows football, wants to coach, and commits themselves to the players.

Teachers complain because they get little to no support from parents and adminstration. Teachers should be paid well AND HELD TO VERY HIGH STANDARDS.

After all, there would be no future engineers without teachers.