We Shouldn't Reward Teachers ...

[joeglow3]

66. I quit reading when the link tried to equate teaching to public accounting

I spent time on both in college, but ended up with my degrees in accounting (degrees because a Masters is now required to just sit for the exam that is required to be a CPA). The two professions require different skill sets, but the technical knowledge needed for teaching was much lower.

Plus, if you want to compare the two, you HAVE to take into account the time off teachers get for summers. Sure, teachers work overtime for 9 months of the year, just like every other profession, except we do it for 12 months. I averaged 70-80 hours a week in the last year (with one week where I worked 127 out of 168 hours in a week). I know about a half dozen teachers and none of them even sniffed hours like that.

Thus, if you take the number of hours I worked my first year (the basis of comparsion in your article) and divided it by the hours worked, I guaran-fricking-tee I got paid less per hour than any of my friends who graduated that year and began teaching.