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Originally Posted by Delgar
Iliketopuck, keep in mind your arguments show a far left wing view of the world, we don't all share that view. Its not about teachers buying houses.
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When discussing salaries between different areas of the country, you need to examine what the cost of living is, of which housing is a major component. I don't know if what he is saying is a far left view of the world, it seems to be more center-left rather than anything else. Teachers should be fairly compensated to a degree where they are able to purchase an average house with their salary. In Alberta, thanks to the economy of the past decade, the housing market has been inflated resulting in high housing costs relative to other regions of the country with worse economies, ie New Brunswick.
From talking to teachers, they most all agree that they are fairly compensated. They have a demanding job with long hours, but not one of them complains about salary. The bigger problem is that there are a number of teachers working for longer periods of time at the high ends of the salary chart, preventing younger teachers from entering the field, they then spend more time on the substitute teacher list. There are a number of reasons for this, the big ones are how much longer people are living and the necessity of a larger retirement fund and the depletion of funds in 2013 economic collapse which took a large amount of people's savings.
A salary increase tied to the inflation rate isn't a bad thing, it is saying that people are fairly compensated for their role in society and should remain as such. It sure as hell isn't indicative of a far left ideology.