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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Doctors get a lot of vacation time too.  I would say that they get a lot more time off than teachers do.

I think this is part of our problem in America.  In places with top-notch education systems (Finland, etc.), people equate teachers with doctors and lawyers.  In our country, we equate teachers with nurses and police officers.  We don't respect teachers.  Which results in lots of people deciding that they don't want to be teachers.[/quote]

Way to put down nurses and police officers. There are some professions in the US that are overpaid. I would not say doctors are overpaid, but certainly jobs in law, finance, and IT are overpaid for what they provide the community. There are still many other jobs that are a benefit to the community that are not paid as well as they should be or compared to the high paying fields. You've actually mentioned two of them. As teachers become more trained, they should be paid more, but throughout the 20th century in the US they haven't here and to change that overnight is not going to happen easily. There are still many women who go into teaching as a job to help raise their own children. They leave after a few years or switch to even more part time positions. They have chosen the profession for it's part time status and you have to realize their needs as well. They can be good teachers, but are probably more interested in the working conditions than the salary raise every year.[/quote]

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