Yeah, I've never questioned that one. Teachers work their butts off. My sister is a new (second-third year) art teacher, she got to develop 8 separate curricula over the last year and a half, one for each grade level.
Kinda like my department being one of the better paid (and less higher-degree-holding) in the university - we're also one of the only always on call and who work in the office year round, including when the university is closed.
I've never met (virtually or really) onr single person who thought teachers were overpaid, who didn't make that calculation based on the students' seat time. EVER.
Every_Single_One of them would calculate the pay rate based on how long students are in class and assume that every day off for a student was one for a teacher and that the teacher wasn't working unless it was between the bells.
The gross misunderstanding about what teachers do is one of the bellwethers I often use to point out that our lip service to education is just that. It wouldn't be conceivable to have a culture wide error so grotesque if education were really a priority.
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Kinda like my department being one of the better paid (and less higher-degree-holding) in the university - we're also one of the only always on call and who work in the office year round, including when the university is closed.
Less obvious things still exist.
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Every_Single_One of them would calculate the pay rate based on how long students are in class and assume that every day off for a student was one for a teacher and that the teacher wasn't working unless it was between the bells.
The gross misunderstanding about what teachers do is one of the bellwethers I often use to point out that our lip service to education is just that. It wouldn't be conceivable to have a culture wide error so grotesque if education were really a priority.
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