Do you support the U.S. teacher strikes?

[Darashiva]

Aeolus451 said:

Machiavellian said:

You think 45K a year is being overpaid.  There is no way I would go 4 years to college at the price tag it is now, to come out getting paid 45K a year.  I would be surprised if you even know one iota what teachers do today.  

45k a year and they get the summer off. If they don't like that, they can try working as a welder in a shipyard in the south, getting paid the same but that's for a whole year's worth of work. They should quit their bitchin'.

Teacher's getting summers off is a complete misconception of what they do for work, at least if you're a good teacher. It's technically true that teachers have a long summer vacation, but in reality, it's not really longer than in any other profession because they have to spent a lot of their time during summer planning next year's courses and lessons, not to mention curriculum. In addition, the reason teachers have a relatively high hourly wages is because they have to work outside their normal working hours planning lessons, grading tests and so on. If a teacher has on average around 30 hours of lessons a week, he or she has to spend at least another 10-15 hours every week planning that stuff during what is technically their freetime. And yes, I know exactly what I'm talking about since I am a teacher, though not in the US.