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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nurses are overworked.[/quote]

Nurses don't take work home, nor are they expected to.

Nursing has a ratio problem, so yes they're "overworked" while on the clock, but they can home home without having to have patient meetings and paperwork on their own time.[/quote]

Nurses and other medical professionals have to work holidays. I have missed either Thanksgiving or Christmas with my family every year of my adult life. Teachers don't have that problem.[/quote]
I’m a teacher and my husband is a medical professional. We both worked on MLK day, but my work was completed at home, unpaid, while he worked for time and a half. THAT is the problem. [/quote]

Please tell us what kind of medical professional he is, how much his education cost, what degrees has had and how long it took, and what hours he worked and how much he got paid during training.[/quote]
I don’t owe you that information.
Here’s what I’ll tell you, though. He attended a private school for his graduate degree (by choice) and I competed for a fellowship where mine was subsidized. We come from different socioeconomic backgrounds and I never took any student loans. I paid for my undergraduate degree in cash by working through school, whereas his family paid for his private school tuition. We both have a master’s degree. He takes no work home, and works three days a week. I take considerable work home and work five days a week. He makes $150,000 and I make $54,000. [/quote]

His degree is more difficult to obtain than yours.  It is called specialization and it is the system we use in this country to establish pay.  Education degrees are relatively easy to obtain.  Far less are able to become medical professionals.[/quote]

DP.
Why do you assume teachers have education degrees? I’m a teacher with two masters degrees, and neither one of them is in education. I worked quite hard to get them, too. As for specializations, I also have those. Heck, the teacher upstairs from me has a PhD in Chemistry. I suspect he’d say that wasn’t the easiest thing to earn. (Yes, and it’s a “real” one.)

I know it’s easy to degrade teachers. This thread is a great example of that. What I noticed is most of the insults come from people who clearly know absolutely nothing about the profession.

Sitting in a classroom when you were a child doesn’t mean you understand the working conditions, education requirements, or (frankly) anything about being a teacher. [/quote]

If you have all these degrees and certifications, why are you a teacher?  You seem hell bent on convincing everyone it’s the hardest profession and everyone else’s jobs/lives are so much easier, so I can’t understand why you would do it. [/quote]

Keep pushing and let's see what you are left with in terms of teachers. Moron.[/quote]

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