And here you are, bashing what teachers do. “lets all amit teachers have a relatively easy job.” Are you a teacher? If teachers have it so easy for “so much money,” why aren’t you doing it? I hate the judgmental uninformed people here. For all of you who don’t know because apparently a lot of people do not, teachers also only get paid for 9 or 10 months for the year. That’s their contract. So it’s not like they are working 180 days and getting paid for 365. Some districts, like my current one, allow that money to be spread out over a 12 month period by withholding an amount to be paid out over the summer. Other districts do not (like a previous district I worked for) and so teachers have to save the money on their own or work another job in the summer. If you’re in a district or state where teachers are making over 60k, I am certain that is after many years of teaching. I am in my 12th year of teaching and make about 50k, which is okay by me, but starting salary in the district is around 35k. Considering I have a master’s degree, 50k is not really very much when you look at many other careers who also have master’s degrees. For most districts, teachers get a tiny little raise with each year of service and with more education, and for districts like mine, if you don’t do continuing education, then your salary eventually gets frozen in place where you don’t earn more each year. We don’t need to onlinepare different “harder” jobs. I didn’t want a labor intensive job and wanted to be a teacher, but my job can certainly be a different type of intensive and one that not everyone is cut out to do. And I would never try to understand what other people do in their jobs. Just because you have sat in a classroom as a student, does not make anyone an expert on teaching. So please all you people who are bashing what teachers do, until you have actually done the job yourself and have studied teacher contracts, please stop talking about things you don’t understand.
