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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few things to consider:

1) public school teachers have a rich benefits package and have more time off than the average professional. When one adjusts for those differences, how do teacher salaries compare?
2) most teachers are given a curriculum and teach the same class for years. Thus, their position is very different from a professional that is solving new problems or inventing new products and services every day. It’s not that teachers are robots, but that they’re not being paid to solve problems with big upside wins. Instead, their value is helping students understand a set of material both have been given. 
3) a lot of a teacher’s problems stem from parents. Parents hate taxes, which pay teachers’ compensation. Parents also expect schools to make their kids geniuses. Parents never want to believe that a problem is caused by them or their kid. Instead, they blame the teachers. Teaching would be more fun without some parents.

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#2 If you are innovative, aware of the world around you and responsive to your students, you are not teaching the same thing year after year. Skills, content knowledge and concepts should meet grade level/testing standards, but engaging a class in learning and integrating subjects -including math and science- is never the same. That’s part of what keeps teaching interesting. All the extra time and resource gathering and student feedback snd meetings and admin demands and time your own kids are ignored causes the burnout. Salary isn’t  high enough to make up for it.[/quote]

Regarding #2... thank you, PP. I read that and immediately thought, "but I don't teach the same content or the same way year after year." My students change, so my approach changes.

Regarding #3... I don't really struggle with parents. I have a few overbearing and unreasonable ones each year, but they aren't why I'm considering leaving. It's the WORK. Teachers have too many responsibilities and too little time. 
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