Teachers are NOT overpaid.

[kpete]

https://liberalsarecool.com/post/673051551426904064/teachers-are-not-overpaid

[dutch777]

1. Right on! It is a travesty how little we pay teachers. Most of us wouldn't last a day trying to...

...lead a classroom of middle or high schoolers. Even if you ignore the fact that you not only have to manage the kids but help them learn too. I know I wouldn't make it. I have been tempted to get a school bus driving job in my retirement just for something to do and I do like kids but I bet I wouldn't even survive that for a week. God bless the teachers who have stayed with it during this awful turn of events. And kudos to the parents too, not sure I would have managed parenthood in the age of Covid either.

[Chainfire]

2. Teachers determine our future, they should be paid as well as doctors or lawyers.

[rampartc]

4. certainly as well as linebackers.

[Hortensis]

3. Democrats fight for higher teacher pay and higher standards.

It's very simple.

Democrats value education as intrinsic to a great nation and as the ultimate enabler of pursuit of happiness.

Today's Republicans see a well educated people as not only a threat to their control but unnecessary waste.

[genxlib]

5. I have two words for anyone who thinks teachers are overpaid

"Sign up"

If it is such a windfall for what you deem to be an easy job, then do it.

I sometimes envy the work hours and summertime vacations that my Teacher friends have but I would still never be a teacher. The amount of energy it would take compressed into the those school hours is still more than I can muster. I admire teachers because I couldn't do what they do.

On edit, I am sure the "two words" that many of you have in mind are quite different.

[49jim]

6. I've listened to this crap

about teachers being overpaid since I started as an elementary teacher in September 1971......for a salary of $7200.00....right after that Nixon put a freeze on salaries so my district dropped my salary to $6800.00. After taxes my take home was around $100.00 a week. We just got married and my wife was still in college. (by the way we are still married)...in December Nixon lifted the salary freeze and I was looking for a big retro check for Christmas shopping....came to less than $100.00 after taxes! I taught 1st,3rd and 5th grade for 9 years and went on to be an elementary principal for 23 years..which I thoroughly enjoyed....only way to beef up my salary. I am glad I'm not doing that now...a real head ache....CRT....crazy parents.....although... I certainly dealt with my fair share....just different issues....Retired at 52 with a full pension (NYS) and have been retired for 20 years. During retirement I taught early childhood at the local community college for fourteen years and finally retired in 2016. I actually had students in my college classes that were elementary students when I was principal. It was neat to see them.....they told me I looked different (grey hair)...but the recognized my voice!
I went off on a tangent.anyway.....I agree with the last poster...teachers are not overpaid....if anything very much underpaid and that hasn't changed in over 50 years. I also used this argument back to teacher critics over the years....come and walk in my moccasins.......usually got silence from them.....

[sanatanadharma]

7. I have been making this argument for several years

If it is SO important that the schools be open even if some kids will die, because the economy NEEDS childcare.

Then pay the teachers to 'baby-sit'.