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I think teachers definitely deserve to make more than $40,000/yr, but how do we know what a good number is? What's reasonable? Maybe a reasonable estimated hourly wage needs to be decided (based on other important professions, perhaps?) and then multiplied by however many hours the average teacher puts into class time and marking time over the 9-10 months that they work over the year. I'd expect you'd look into salary expectations before you went to teacher's college, if you were concerned about your return on investment. They shouldn't be scraping by and my understanding is that they're by no means living in poverty, but a reasonable salary needs to be decided on once and for all so they can just go back to enriching the lives of future generations. It's a tough fucking job, but it also has a lot of perks, not the least of which is having a job that actually matters, where you make a difference in the world. How many of us can say that? Anybody else worry about what the kids are learning about the world from the teacher's strike?
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