One last question...why did you "give all of it up" then? Since you have a teaching degree and teacherb have it so good, why are you not a teacher?

 

*teachers

Let me just thank you for the years of service that you gave of yourself to a worthwhile profession. :thumb:

 

Ditto, Ditto and Ditto!:thumb:

Yes good question , answer! Some people just aren't cut out to be a teacher , because the job is so demanding, yes demanding it is. :irked:

 

If my family had a dollar for every time my dad came home from teaching and said some version of "stupid $&*! kids" we'd have been millionaires.

I didn't think a teacher would play the retirement card in this thread. Maybe we should talk tenure also.

 

:thumb:Thank-you..

:thumb:Thank-you..

 

I will never say teachers are overpaid. They earn every dime, and if they can get more, they deserve it. I just wanted to point out the perks that conveniently have been left out of the conversation. I'm going to bring up one more: Day care. How much does a duel income family have to pay for day care? A teacher does not work when the kids are not in school. I think we're talking thousands here. I know precisely what I am talking about here.

Bottom line people: The very best KY teachers are way underpaid and the worst teachers are way overpaid!

Bottom line people: The very best KY teachers are way underpaid and the worst teachers are way overpaid!

 

I like this one!:thumb:

Bottom line people: The very best KY teachers are way underpaid and the worst teachers are way overpaid!

:thumb:I agree. (But a thread with that long of a title would not have received nearly as many hits on a Saturday morning. :lol:)

I will never say teachers are overpaid. They earn every dime, and if they can get more, they deserve it. I just wanted to point out the perks that conveniently have been left out of the conversation. I'm going to bring up one more: Day care. How much does a duel income family have to pay for day care? A teacher does not work when the kids are not in school. I think we're talking thousands here. I know precisely what I am talking about here.

It depends on the school district the teacher and the children attend. Don't assume a teacher and their children are in the same district.

Bottom line people: The very best KY teachers are way underpaid and the worst teachers are way overpaid!

 

Wouldn't that be true of most professions?

One last question...why did you "give all of it up" then? Since you have a teaching degree and teacherb have it so good, why are you not a teacher?

 

Because teaching wasn't what I was going to school for. In order to get my required degree it parallelled the track needed to get a teacher's certification so I got it as something to fall back on. I even used it for a few years (I was a substitute teacher AND coach, now if you want to talk about people that are underpaid I'll agree with you there) but when a full time position came up in my chosen profession I took it.

 

And again I never said that teachers are overpaid.

If you think it is such an easy job why did you not maintain your teaching certificate? I think perhaps you didn't want to work as hard.

 

I never said it was an easy job. I said, and I still haven't been convinced otherwise, that teachers get benefits aside from salary that most other professionals don't get.

And if I'm not mistaken there are professional development days built into the school calendar where teacher can earn these credits.

 

I gather you are a teacher.

 

What do you do during spring break?

 

What do you do during Christmas (excuse me Winter) break?

 

During the summer holiday how many total days do you spend doing MANDATED job related activities vs. things you choose to do?

 

During the school year how many holidays do you get and how many days can you take off for personal reasons?

 

The bottom line as far as I can see is that teachers get a whole lot more down time then almost any other profession. Now chances are they need it after being in a classroom for a school year BUT they have to see that down time as a benefit of their profession that few if any other professions have.

 

On your first statement, you are right. You are mistaken.

 

On your question about Christmas break, grade papers (1st semester exams) and finish up with 1st semester grades while preparing lesson plans for the 2nd semester.

 

3 Holidays (Thanksgiving, New Year's and Christmas) and 1 personal day. Any other holidays are unpaid days. Some school districts will have staff work a day during summer months to account for taking a day off in the school year. Alot of districts do this for the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

 

I would agree with your last paragraph but I bet you would be surprised on how much downtime there actually is.

I never said it was an easy job. I said, and I still haven't been convinced otherwise, that teachers get benefits aside from salary that most other professionals don't get.

 

And other professions get benefits that teachers don't get. You can say that about any profession.

 

We get an unlimited supply of #2 pencils.

And other professions get benefits that teachers don't get. You can say that about any profession.

 

We get an unlimited supply of #2 pencils.

 

Only because we buy them for our kids, LBBC. And the notesbooks, and paper, and folders, and markers, and gluesticks, and Kleenex's, and hand sanitizer.....lol.