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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I still don't see how it matters.  If you get paid $80K over 12 months or over 10 months you're still getting $80K as your salary.  [/quote]

This is a teacher argument that literally no people in any other profession understands because it’s such an odd way of thinking about pay. The fact that a pay check doesn’t come in the summer has nothing to do with yearly salary, but teachers always insist somehow it’s much harder to be paid this way and it seems really simple to just put some if you’re salary away every pay check to cover the summer. Many professions do it. Like, people who work in commission based jobs are the opposite. They’ll give you a yearly salary based on what they made last year, even if the year prior they made much more or much less. [/quote]

Teachers love when non-teachers tell us how we should think about our jobs.

You say many professions are paid like teachers. Can you point to several?[/quote]

And non-teachers love when teachers tell them how they should think about their pay. Which is the assertion made when you insist no one gets it.

Literally all seasonal jobs are paid this way. You get paid when you work and not paid when you don’t work. Your job is seasonal. [/quote]

Er… it’s *my* job. I get to decide how to feel about it.

Also: 
Seasonal work: “A seasonal industry is activity within an economic sector in which the majority of operations take place during only part of the year, usually within a period of half a year or less. In some cases, as with agriculture, this limitation may relate to climate or other forces of nature.” That definition doesn’t apply to teaching. Twenty years in the profession and you are literally the first person to try calling it seasonal work. [/quote]

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