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Originally Posted by johnboy
Get real 180 days of teaching at best from 7:30am until 2:30pm which included a lunch period, home room, and time off between periods. 11 - 12 days off for Christmas and Easter, Thursday thru Sunday off at Thanksgiving along with 10 days in June, all of July, all of August. That doesn't even compare to the 2080 hour work year for the minimal employee and much more for more dedicated employees. Along with a very generous pension. Most people would gladly trade for those benefits. And please don't embarrass your self by saying they could have chosen that path also. They don't even compare to the engineering degrees, be it chemical, civil, or electrical degrees.
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"Get real." "Most people" who gripe about teachers being overpaid are the same ones who
cannot wait for their kids to go back to school in the fall, because they cannot manage and focus the energy of their
own 2 kids, much less 20 or 30 kids in a classroom.
Such parents and "experts" would not last 2 hours in charge of a classroom of 20+ kids who get no parenting and no discipline at home, have serious learning disabilities of widely varying types and degrees of severity, and for whom the teacher is required to design customized lesson planning for each of them
in addition to the whole-class lesson planning!
And then there are the people with engineering, math and science degrees supposedly worth so much more.....ah, yes....the math brains who
love numbers but cannot communicate with other human beings, much less
teach them at their level.
Of course not all are like this, but I know several bright, talented and
creative engineers who got out of it because of the robotic personalities they were immersed in, in cubicles. And other engineers I know are content and stay in it because they do not like people....they like numbers.
Suffice it to say that comparing teachers to engineers is comparing apples to oranges. Every profession, trade, and vocation demands the right combination of brains
and interpersonal skills and qualities.