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Originally Posted by wretched34
If someone offered me a job, and said "if you stick it out for a few years, it's a 6 figure salary, with 12+ weeks annual vacation" I'd work "alot" in those 40ish weeks too.
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This.
I don't doubt teachers are very important. But I work a 50 minimum, sometimes 60 hour work week, with your standard, legally mandated vacation time. I feel I'm fairly compensated, but if they feel "48 hours a week." is going above and beyond.... Well they need a reality check. Especially in consideration of the incredible compensation, benefits, and holiday time they receive. Plus they are impossible to fire. The ineptitude you would have to display once your in the union to get dismissed would be nothing short of something catastrophic or criminal.
I see a lot of 90-100 k credit apps for teachers which isn't gold plated Bentley money. But the benefits they have are insanely good, and would easily amount to a 10-20% raise for 90% of us.
There's a reason you rarely ever hearing teachers in this province complaining about wages anymore. They are more than fairly compensated. And they realize it.