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Originally Posted by lazypucker
In my opinion, teachers in Canada have it pretty easy, compared to being a teacher in war torn countries, or in places where education is deemed to be evil.
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You don't have to go to war torn countries for a comparison where Canadian teachers come out more fortunate. Canadian teachers are paid better than almost any other in the world, with teachers in Alberta and Ontario paid dramatically more than teachers in places like England, the U.S., and France.
It won't last much longer, though. Teacher pay and retirement benefits are a house of cards that's going to crash under the weigh of retired boomers and shakey public finances. Same with police. If my kids decide to go into those fields, there's no chance they'll enjoy the same pay, benefits, and early retirement that people in those fields have enjoyed in Canada over the last 30 years. Those jobs will likely be closer to what they were in Canada back in the mid-20th century (and what they are in most of the world today), when teachers earned a livelihood comparable to bank tellers and police lived in blue-collar neighbourhoods alongside roofers and carpenters.