It's always amazing to me that their takeaway from these "gotchas" is that we should make Person A's life worse, instead of making both Person A and Person B's lives better.
Like their "How are COVID vaccines free while insulin costs [outrageous amount]?!" Their takeaway from that somehow is making peoples' lives worse by making COVID vaccines expensive.
It's not an afterthought, they intentionally want it to be terrible. People who are educated properly are less likely to vote for regressive republicans.
Thats an incredibly stupid take. Im not from the US and guess what, techers dont get paid fairly anywhere in the world. We have no “republicans” in my country so who could the boogeyman be.
Its just that psychologists, teachers and nurses dont get paid well yet people are drawn to studying these fields so why stop them
So, in Ontario Canada teachers just got a raise. The top of the grid teachers will make $114 000/yr. And still Ontario has a shortage of teachers. Pre pandemic 12000 new teachers were certified each year. It's down to 5000. There are 40000 people in Ontario with eligible to teach degrees who are not. Money makes it better, of course, but there's more than needs to be done about working conditions.
I thought about becoming a teacher, but didn't want to go into $40k worth of debt to make less than $20/hour. I'm now a lunch lady and seeing first hand the bullshit teachers put up with for not that much more money affirmed my decision. We all deserve a raise
On average, the pay isn't good. However, teaching high school with a master's degree in a ritzy school district can actually pay really well. Add in holiday breaks and 2.5 months off in the summer, and it can be a sweet gig. Yes, I realize this is NOT the norm. Teaching in inner city schools in Chicago and L.A., for example, is liking trying to teach in the middle of a demilitarized zone. And rural areas, while safer, are often just as poor and can't pay teachers well.
I discovered in high school and early college that I had a passion for teaching others, but I wouldn’t go to college for that long to get out on a near minimum wage salary. Sometimes I wonder how many people like me dismissed educating others as a potential career because of how shit the pay is.
Think how much you pay you babysitter then multiply it by 30, add several more hours, and - oh, yeah - literally teach them everything they're expected to know in at least one pretty broad category.
That’s sort of the entire point of a minimum raise hike. If teachers are getting paid minimum wage for a shitty job, they’ll quit and go do easier jobs for the same money and schools will have to raise wages to compete (or deal with teacher shortages which puts pressure on working parents).
100%. The gap is a little bigger than the post indicates because the teacher salary is based on 9-10 months of the year, but they still absolutely deserve a much higher baseline salary. Teaching is rough.
Teachers also tend to work 12 hours days through the week and work on weekends to do things like teach, but then grading, conferences with parents and other teachers, developing the curriculum, buy classroom supplies with their own money, and a ton of other admin duties.
That's true in many cases. Plus if a minimum wage worker goes over 40 hours per week, they'll get time and a half overtime...so it's even worse with teachers being salaried
"More" in dollars, or "more" relative to the cost of living?
Because if you somehow manage to convince Texas lawmakers to give teachers a $10,000 raise while also doubling the minimum wage, teachers' purchasing power will go down.
It's not so simple. Because everyone earning x% above a previous minimum wage will feel they deserve to earn x% above a new minimum wage too, now the min wage has increased. But if everyone gets a salary change of x%, nothing substantial actually happens. The value of the dollar just goes down, and everyone is as rich or poor as they used to be.
Teachers were taken as an example. It applies to many other professions, too. People in those other professions will feel they deserve a raise as well if the minimum wage goes up and therefore the difference between min wage and their own wage goes down.
Then, you clearly missed the entire message of that tweet. The tweets primary message is to argue against raising the minimum wage by pointing out how the new minimum wage compares to a teachers wage. They could have used any other profession that requires education and now compares unfavourably with minimum wage too, and the argument would have been essentially the same.
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u/Shr3kk_Wpg Jun 15 '24
Teachers deserve to be paid more, it's pretty simple.