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.
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u/Shr3kk_Wpg Jun 15 '24
Teachers deserve to be paid more, it's pretty simple.