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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]to answer the OPs question because they are historically female-dominated professions. And well... that is how we treat women.[/quote]

What's the basis for this claim, particularly with teachers. Please show how teacher's salaries are out of line with those of other local government employees. Let's look at Fairfax, for example. A teacher with a BA starts at $53K for 195 day year. An Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney (ie, a prosecutor) starts at $59K. The ACA has a JD and works the full year. [b]I've never seen anyone claim that prosecutors are  historically female dominated profession.[[/b]b] So, please explain how the teacher's salary is unfair?[/b] [/quote]
it's almost like...both are underpaid and their low pay combined with poor working conditions leads to a shortage of both? (https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/prosecutors-wanted-district-attorneys-struggle-recruit-retain-lawyers-2022-04-12/ -- shortage is well documented). I don't see how one profession being underpaid (prosecutors) makes the underpayment of another OK. [/quote]

Dp. It doesn't make it ok, but claiming that "no other profession" is as underpaid or as overworked as teachers is false. Making these claims doesn't change many minds, nor does comparing teacher salaries to private industry, as opposed to other similarly educated government workers.

When you are one of the other similarly underpaid government workers, you don't have the luxury of winter break, spring break, and unpaid summers off, even if some teachers have to do work over those breaks. In the discourse about schools I've listened to over the years, teachers as a profession demand special treatment because they are women and mothers (no, we can't have school on President's Day even though there have already been nine snow days because teachers would have no childcare), while other similarly educated professionals working government jobs with low salaries scramble through the myriad days off, breaks, snow days and delays, and other demands do not. I'm not saying that teaching is easy, because it's not, and it's only getting worse. What I am saying is that when my kids were younger and I worked as a government attorney, I would have given anything to leave my office after seven hours and bring my work home to do after my kids were in bed or to have even half of the breaks that teachers get. The same is true of professional development done over the summer. Teachers don't have to deal with the high cost of childcare and manage the logistics of scheduling care during the times when schools are not open to students, even if they are working at home. Still, that benefit rarely gets acknowledged.[/quote]

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