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Originally Posted by BigNumbers
I wish we could start polls. I’d love to anonymously know if people think
A) Teachers are underpaid
B) Teachers are properly compensated
C) Teachers are overpaid
Personally I oscillate between B and C when you consider the 12 weeks vacation and employer-paid contributions to a DB pension.
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Again, personally I think teachers are well and properly compensated.
However, referring to my post earlier on in the thread, they still have to deal with the same external economic forces as the rest of us as our purchasing power diminishes due to rising costs and inflation, and unlike most businesses teachers cant 'pass that cost along to the customer' unless Elementary Pizza Day becomes some sort of grim dystopian nightmare.