A Message from Your Kids' Teachers

[enki_ck]

I wish I made $800 a week. 

[b.macavoy]

 
oh my, that was funny!

[Threeme2189]

oh my, that was funny!

But true .

$800 a week isn't bad at all, teachers here make about half that amount.

[Gareth]

 

[tattoosteve99]

Hahahhahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahah.  I laughed so hard I almost peed.

[jerseydevil]

   My GF is a teacher.  I showed her this, and she's still laughing......

[turnsouth]

Here in Michigan average teacher salary is $1368.00 per working week.

[enki_ck]

Here in Michigan average teacher salary is $1368.00 per working week.

Here in Croatia the average teacher salary is $956.00 per working month.


If you see me posting in the "on the way thread", me

[Grant Lamontagne]

Here in Michigan average teacher salary is $1368.00 per working week.

On Ontario I think teachers make 14 multitools, three pipe tomahawks, 43 coins, 1/8th of a motorcycle and a model train set per week! 

Def

[Chako]

 

[ducttapetech]

holy smurf! That was funny as hell!

[turnsouth]

Here in Michigan average teacher salary is $1368.00 per working week.

Here in Croatia the average teacher salary is $956.00 per working month.


If you see me posting in the "on the way thread", me

It's not as good as it sounds, looking at the data you would see that instead of just posting the ranking of teacher's salaries by amount they also rank by salary comfort level (pay versus cost of living by state). And Michigan is only #4

That means that our teachers have to go to work every day (well, not really every day, but 2/3 of the year) knowing that there are teachers in 3 other states living better than them


 

[Ashley]

Oh teachers have it sooo hard.

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[turnsouth]

Funny thing is that most of my friends are teachers. And I constantly give them a hard time about making so much money for so little work. But my one friend Kris did have a good come-back. She said:

"So when you were deciding on a career, weren't teachers making good money, getting all summer off, as well as every holiday possibly conceived by mankind?"
"You could have too..."
 

[ironraven]

WARNING: rant ahead

Lets see here... $800 a week- that's for a teacher with 20+ years experience, which sounds about right because a great many teachers have been doing it that long, and only during those periods where the school is in session.

Teachers make so much money they compete with the high school students for weekend and summer jobs because they have no summer pay check. Then have to pay for class materials out of their pockets. And much of the continuing education they have to go through to keep their jobs, which happens during the summer they have "off". And they have to have a master's degree and state licensing to even try to apply for the job.

Yeah, teachers make too much money. Right....

Now, in fairness, my mother was a teacher for a long time. And stopped teaching the year she was sent to the emergency room by emotionally disturbed students three times and was told point blank she'd be on her own if she tried to take legal action. In a school where a good year was one where there were no pregnant 7th graders, and drunk or high 8th graders were pretty normal things to see pour off the bus in the morning. A school where you know that half the kids weren't going to complete high school, and maybe a quarter would even go to college, much less graduate. And this wasn't even in "the inner city"- this was in Vermont, nice, rural, "wholesome", "highly educated", "rich" (bullsmurf) Vermont, and it was over a decade ago.

I've literally sat in school board meetings and listen to people say that books are stupid, they don't read, why are the teachers making their kid read. Or complain because a kid failed a research paper by printing out the wikipedia article. And apparently buying replacements for five year old gym equipment is more important than replacing 8 year old computers or history books that stopped at 1970. And wow, the parents who freak because their little darling's cell phone can't be on in the class room- really? That video is right, if the parents won't ride their kids to do homework and instead completely undermine the teachers for 2/3s of the day the little monsters aren't in school, it is the parents' fault little Johnny can't read and little Suzy can't cross her legs.

And the Pandora thing, I believe that. I absolutely do. When I went back to college, I was with kids ten years younger than me who didn't know who Regan, Thatcher and Gorbachev were and why the Berlin Wall was important.

So lets say that some mythical $40K/year starting position for teachers is actually out there. I've got no problem with that. This video would make me laugh if it didn't make me want to cry, because it is true.

[enki_ck]

There are a few teachers on the forums, at least two in this thread alone, (me being one of them) so i know what you're talking about. The school where I used to work was terrible. It wasn't unusual to come into the teachers room and find brass knuckels on the table confiscated, from the students. I lost 24 pounds in the first 4 months there due to stress and most of the days I felt like screaming while driving home from work. I now work with kids ages 10-15, and feel a lot better. There is a lot of work but I love my job now. 

[powerring]

 B.

[jock1]

The video was hilarious real but I wouldn't fancy a teachers job at all I mean no disrespect to those who put there heart and soul into their job there are many dedicated teachers .I have spoken at length to the husband of one of my wifes friends and the things that poor beggar has had to deal with and the way he was treated made me sick