Folks tend to see teaching as a one track job, i.e., 6 classes a day and home. Most have no clue what happens in an average school day. Yes, there are 6 class periods for most. But then there are lesson plans, devising tests, grading papers, custodial duties, monitoring the halls, working the gate at sporting events, parent/teacher conferences, teachers’ meetings, administrative trivia, deadlines for report cards, handling injured/ill students, disciplinary hearings for recalcitrant students, hearings for the handicapped, assisting with college applications, and on and on.
It’s a tough, demanding job and not one that a person can easily put aside after hours. I began teaching in 73 and can verify that from 24 years in the profession. And yet, I often heard and still hear the comment, ‘Oh he’s/she’s a teacher, you know’ in a condescending tone. as if one is to be pitied in some way.
It reminds me of the old saw Those who can’t do, teach. and I resent it. To my mind that should read, Those who can’t teach, DO . . . SOMETHING ELSE . . . PUHLEEZE!
Back when I was in 6th grade (1959) I overheard a couple teachers talking. One of them mentioned that the average starting teacher’s salary then was $6000.
As a former educator in both regular ed, special ed and junior high and senior high levels, I will defend to the death every penny every teacher believes they deserve. Try it sometime; you’ll agree. For the stuff they have to put up with — usually one or two troublesome students and many, many more parents who all think their children are geniuses and it’s the teachers’ fault when they underperform — they will NEVER make enough money for the difference they make in young lives.
Rhetorical_Question 11 months ago
Have Frazz purchased the shoes and give them to his girlfriend?
Concretionist 11 months ago
Nihilism is pretty standard for folks on a teacher’s income.
rheddmobile 11 months ago
The new super shoes are not great for middle of the pack runners with dodgy knees. Guess how I know this.
Charles 11 months ago
The average teacher’s salary here in the USA is over $66,000 per year. That’s not exactly living in the poor house.
Serial Pedant 11 months ago
But it’s less than the average car salesman-who doesn’t spend four years in college, emerging all too often with massive student loan debt.
sandpiper 11 months ago
Folks tend to see teaching as a one track job, i.e., 6 classes a day and home. Most have no clue what happens in an average school day. Yes, there are 6 class periods for most. But then there are lesson plans, devising tests, grading papers, custodial duties, monitoring the halls, working the gate at sporting events, parent/teacher conferences, teachers’ meetings, administrative trivia, deadlines for report cards, handling injured/ill students, disciplinary hearings for recalcitrant students, hearings for the handicapped, assisting with college applications, and on and on.
It’s a tough, demanding job and not one that a person can easily put aside after hours. I began teaching in 73 and can verify that from 24 years in the profession. And yet, I often heard and still hear the comment, ‘Oh he’s/she’s a teacher, you know’ in a condescending tone. as if one is to be pitied in some way.
It reminds me of the old saw Those who can’t do, teach. and I resent it. To my mind that should read, Those who can’t teach, DO . . . SOMETHING ELSE . . . PUHLEEZE!
Richard S Russell Premium Member 11 months ago
“I’m only in it for the money.” —No teacher ever
markkahler52 11 months ago
Living in the Divided States of Nihilia
rroush Premium Member 11 months ago
Back when I was in 6th grade (1959) I overheard a couple teachers talking. One of them mentioned that the average starting teacher’s salary then was $6000.
Lambutts 11 months ago
As a former educator in both regular ed, special ed and junior high and senior high levels, I will defend to the death every penny every teacher believes they deserve. Try it sometime; you’ll agree. For the stuff they have to put up with — usually one or two troublesome students and many, many more parents who all think their children are geniuses and it’s the teachers’ fault when they underperform — they will NEVER make enough money for the difference they make in young lives.