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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers in FFX County start around $53K.  That seems like a fine starting wage for a college grad.  Even better considering time off in the summer.[/quote]

Teachers get the summer off.  They work less days a year than other professions.  [b]I get 26 days of leave a year pkus holidays.  A teacher gets triple[/b].[/quote]

Your leave is paid though. For 2 months the teachers are not paid. Now, they are free to get a second job during that time to make money.

I don't think teachers are paid enough for what we expect of them though. I taught college before and that was tough enough, with just a couple hours a day and kids that wanted to be there. I can't imagine taking on a classroom of students for 6 hours every day. [/quote]

The unpaid leave argument is truly one of the stupidest things I've ever heard and it doesn't make you look very smart.  Whether you call your salary an annual salary or salary for the 10 months you work it's really just semantics.  Everyone knows summers are time off and whether you actually get paid during it or just need to set aside some of your other paychecks doesn't change anything.  The unpaid argument would only make sense if teachers were given an annualized salary that was then pro rated for the time they actually worked but it doesn't work like that.[/quote]

The compensation structure is so different in a teaching job versus a corporate type job that you can’t really compare. I guess if you calculate the salary earned per day of work, that would give a more clear comparison.[/quote]

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