Comments on: In Defense of Teachers

By: bob glob

bob glob — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 06:56:13 +0000

Teachers don’t get weekends off, really. They spend weekends grading papers. Do you think papers grade themselves, you dolt?

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:07:56 +0000

I can’t take anyone seriously who can’t get simple facts straight. Vacation days for starters. The average public school teacher works 180 days a year. 52 weeks in a year 2 for weekends=104. Let’s assume 7 full holidays. So we are at 291 days. There are 365 days in the year. 74 days off year is not 7 weeks. You forgot thanksgiving break, christmas break, mid winter break, spring break etc…
Lawyers, most are not public employees so this is like apples and oranges. Also, the average attorney makes slightly more than a teacher now and does not get a pension (yes some make much more but they are few and far between and took the risk to earn it).
Hours, Pension, tenure etc… I could go on and on but there is not enough time. Start with getting the simple facts correct

By: Rachel Lawrence

Rachel Lawrence — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:35:04 +0000

CA Teachers typically start out at 32k depending on the area (38k in LA and SF). The average salary of a teacher with tenure in California ranges 54k to 66k. Unfortunately, assistant principles make about 80k, principles 100k, etc. Not to mention, budget cuts are so terrible that many teachers are out of a job. It is unfortunate, but true.

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By: jim

jim — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:06:09 +0000

According to BLS, nation wide teachers made $47-51k average in 2008. Entry level wages for teachers were about $33k. So yes $30-60k is pretty accurate.
Elementary education was #2 on a list of worst paid degrees.

New York and CA teachers are the highest paid in the country which should be no surprise since those are high cost of living states with high average income levels.

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:40:13 +0000

I agree that it’s silly, but it’s often more time-efficient.

I would love to see some people who talk about how easy teaching is (especially elementary) be a teacher.

By: Investor Junkie

Investor Junkie — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:14:11 +0000

“change their teaching assignments to something miserable so the person will leave.”

What a silly way to “fire” someone. I would love to see some teachers (this applies to other hard to fire jobs) work in right to work states and most other jobs.

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:53:58 +0000

Just for the record, non-tenured teachers are routinely fired. And teachers with tenure CAN be fired, it just takes a long time and a long paper trail. So it’s not impossible, but most admin don’t want to take the time to do it. What I have seen (I’m entering my 10th year teaching — 4 in NJ and 6 in AZ) is that when districts want to get rid of tenured teachers, they change their teaching assignments to something miserable so the person will leave.

By: Budgeting in the Fun Stuff

Budgeting in the Fun Stuff — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:18:48 +0000

As I said at Evan’s site, my husband is a teacher in Texas. The starting salaries here vary based on the district between ($34,000-$45,000) and increase by $400-800 a year if the budget allows it.

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