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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They do better than college professors.  My university's retirement package is not nearly as generous.  Many college professors work into their seventies for this reason.

Also, let's just dispense with the myth that every kindergarten teacher is actually a potential CEO, nuclear physicist, brain surgeon, etc.  It's just not true.  That's like saying that everyone who joins the postal service is doing us a huge favor since otherwise he would have gone to Harvard and majored in computer engineering.  Enough is enough already.  If someone is earning less as a teacher, it doesn't necessarily follow that they could have earned more as something else.  [/quote]

This is what's wrong with education in America. We don't expect our teachers to be exceptional, and in face expect them to be mediocre. My grandfather could have been a university professor, but didn't want to deal with the politics of academia and (gasp!) actually loved to teach.
He retired as a beloved language and drama high school teacher.

Sigh.[/quote]

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