Quote:
Originally Posted by pylon
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.
|
Just curious, but what is it you do for a living?
From my experience (having taught kids for a few years), it's hard work. Exhausting. A lot harder than sitting at a desk, writing emails, sitting in meetings, talking to adults, shuffling paper and doing pretty much the same thing every day, which is what I do now (for more money).
We can bash on unions and bitch about teachers and their sweet vacations and how they get can't get fired and that's fun, but we should also acknowledge that teaching other people's kids is difficult work. More difficult (and a lot more important) than most "office" jobs.
Maybe they are overpaid, maybe it is too hard to fire them, and maybe some of them suck, but unless you've actually done the job, it's hard to compare it to your own job, or the hours you work.