Working Hard At Your Job? Not As Hard As This Guy

In my 10 years working as an educational consultant I saw such abuses all over the country. In NJ there was a teacher who taught 2 periods per day, 1 student period 1 and two students during period 2. . He started "work" at 7:30, finished teaching by 9:00 and left the building by noon. His annual salary? $134,000. For every abuse of this nature, I saw hundreds of hard working, dedicated teachers, but a rip-off like this guy, who was scheduled to retire at the end of the year, stands out and taints all of the others.

Being a school teacher is a very hard and thankless and underpaid job. Most of those who do it are dedicated, capable, and most well intentioned.

SJG

Hey slow your roll SJGuy explain how you think 94k for what amounts to a 8.5 month workload is underpaid. I admit teachers are important, but they only work I believe 36 weeks a year, in reality I believe most make a pretty decent living. This particular guy is saying that his talents are not being used, that is the issue here.

I'm talking about what most teachers do, the work is hard and demanding. Usually they are getting less than police officers.

It is a low status job, but those who do it usually are highly dedicated.

SJG

Summer School teaching does not pay that much. Often teachers have to take courses in the summer to stay current.

SJG

Larryfisherman takes summer classes, SJG tutors him during the school year.

I actually agree with SJG. My wife gets $40k as a 2nd grade teacher. With classes, meetings, prep, grading, extra help, conferences, ... 11 hour days are the norm plus some weekend work.

Teachers making $94k or $134k. That is completely foreign to me. I don't know how they get that.

In the organization I am building, everyone is involved in a life long program of supervised independent study.

And for white males over the age of 50 this is even more important because without that they start to go senile.

SJG

In NC you teach for 25 years, have a Master's and national boards - 60ish a year.

In PA where I grew up you could be making that, or more, after 10 years. Plenty of teachers in PA make 70 or 80K a year with good benefits.

Difference? PA has a strong teachers union. All depends on where you are.

He'll vote his conscience. I wish I had a job like that where I could have fucked off. LMAO I liked my work immensely, it was creative and very rewarding.