re: Teachers are under paid...babysitters make more...

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$50,000/180 days = $277.77/per day

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Just imagine if teachers worked year round like the rest of us at that rate of pay.

So 52 weeks (with 2 weeks paid vacation) x 5 work days = 260 days.
260 days x $277.77/day = $72,220 a year


$50,000 a year isn't a bad gig considering how much time off it comes with: 2.5 months summer vacation, a week off for Thanksgiving, 2 weeks off for Christmas and New Years, a week off for spring break, the minor holidays that only banks and government employees seem to get off, plus a few other miscellaneous days with no school throughout the year.

Mine's in a private catholic school where he at least he doesn't have to deal with trashy kids. shite education, but at least I know what I'm working with.

You forgot though, teachers are the only ones who put in extra hours they "don't get paid for"

So who pays for the day-to-day operation of a school and all of the supplies that little Johnny and Susie need to learn?What about the typically robust benefits package that a teacher receives?

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So me Chemistry to a kid who becomes and Chemical Engineer, or teaching Physics to a Kid who becomes a Mechanical or electrical Engineer is babysitting? 

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Well, I sure as hell don't want you teaching any kids English.

Unless you are a professor at a college, what you teach tommy/susy at Elementary/Middle/High School in the big picture isnt worth jack shite.

Large percentage of incoming students are having to retake remedial math courses before they even take real college level courses.

I have physics and electrical engineering degrees and I work as a mechanical engineer and yea, those grade school teachers were pretty much useless. I was smarter than anyone who tried to teach me math or science until college. Literally.

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They aren't smart enough to actually teach things the kids can employ to solve problems, just random memorization. frick em, make em be smarter before you pay them more.

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People will become angry at this, but it is the absolute truth.

The market is oversaturated with "teachers". It is an easy profession to enter. Make it harder and more selective and you'll see more intelligent people become teachers.

You will also see the pay increase.

GOOD teachers deserve more and GOOD STEM teachers deserve a lot more but you can GTFO out on all the whining. No one has been drafted against their will into the teaching profession and the compensation structure hasn't been revamped with no warning. You knew what you were getting into. Own it.