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Average salary for a teacher working 9 months is $70k. The average goes above $100k in certain states.

50-60 hours a week for a job paying between $93-133k annualized on average is really not so bad. And that's before accounting for the amazing benefits teachers get (including access to PLSF student loan forgiveness).

Source: https://www.nea.org/resource-library/educator-pay-and-student-spending-how-does-your-state-rank

downmarseyd lol

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My pay isn't great, but it's better than what most people around here get paid. I get great benefits, a staggering amount of vacation time (which I use to make even more money with even fewer hours per day), and automatic raises from the college courses my school district pays for.

Teachers that complain about their salaries are kitties or city folk, but I repeat myself.

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if i was a teacher and only had to work 6 hours a day, 38 weeks a year i would also have time to deliver pizzas and do side hustles.

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When I was young teachers would always complain about their salary and maybe they were right to do so. So naturally I never seriously considered teaching as a career field. Don't know why do many teachers complain about their pay. The fact that is doesn't pay much relative to the education needed is far from a secret.

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It doesn't pay much relative to the education needed because the very same individuals who are sneeding about pay enjoy putting more and more barriers and advanced degree requirements in place. Your average elementary school teacher during the peak of the American Dream had a high school diploma and maybe a 2 year degree from a community college. Now, with credentialism creep, you need masters and multiple other certifications to teach, and the end product doesn't show any appreciable improvement.

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Teaching is generally a profession for two kinds of people:

1. The people who inexplicably consider education to be their 'calling'.

2. The people who sleepwalk into education because they're not really good at anything and being in school is the only thing they know.

Pay doesn't factor hugely in their decisions to enter the field, but reality starts to kick in eventually.

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Everyone I knew who went into teaching, except one, fell into camp 2. Most of them are people you wouldn't want around your kids.

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There's a weird bias people have for women where they just assume they're automatically good around kids.

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The only good, effective teachers I ever had were men who'd retired early and decided to teach because they were bored in retirement.

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if youre capable of googling starting salaries before choosing your career path youre probably too smart to be a teacher

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If you don't realize that teaching is for chumps by 5th grade you're ngmi

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The "has a masters degree" stuff is also disingenuous. Teachers pay for degree mill online degrees that would be nigh worthless if not for education payscales.

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Funny, when we need more pharmacists, they increase the pay, and we now have enough. My kids' schools were always staffed with teachers. It's almost like they paid enough to teachers.

Pharmacist salaries operate on supply and demand though. Teacher salaries are based on government education budgets.

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They're kinda right though

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They get a mandatory week off in spring, 2 to 3 weeks off in december, and the entire summer.

Sprinkle in some snow days and PTO and voila!

I don't give a frick.

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BUT THEY HAVE TO GRADE PAPERS AND PUT A SYLLABUS TOGETHER AND COPY A COURSE PLAN FROM SOME TEACHER FORUM :#soycry: :#soysnoo3:

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Tf is a snow day

A portal to heck could encircle our schools and they'd have a bridge built by 8am


https://i.rdrama.net/images/17191743323420358.webp

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I recall my algebra teacher in high school (this was 2005) working at Staples on the side. It was weird.

So its not like teachers being paid shit is a recent thing. Its been a forever thing.

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I think teaching should be a side job and not your main source of income, but people are fixated that they are somehow gods who should be veneratd no matter what

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not a big fan of history i see. no conquest isnt bloody and oh PLEASE lets compare body counts. lets see. jews killing people unprovoked in an offensive war anywhere ever? zero. well that doesnt look good for you. arabs colonizing and stealing peoples land while forcibly converting their children to a faith that would make their ancestors spin in their graves if they knew their descendants (thats you) were practicing it.....why that would be millions over 1400 years wouldnt it?

also wanting to live in heck over living under jewish rule is a spiteful way to live. were excellent overlords. accept the gift youve been given. youll sleep better at night knowing there are jews watching over you.

and oh please. lineage? how olds your religion? 1400 years? thats a nap for jews. im a levite. i trace my patrilineal line back 3500 years to a single man. so lets not squabble over pedigree. you wont win that one. your religion isnt judaism 3.0 just as christianity wasnt the 2nd software patch no one asked for. g-d doesnt screw up and need edits to his source code. you believe in made up dogshit from a delusional libertarian jew hating male feminist warlord who couldnt read. slow clap for your sanity.

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https://old.reddit.com/r/FluentInFinance/comments/1eeee7a/what_destroyed_the_american_dream/:

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