Do you support the U.S. teacher strikes?

[Darashiva]

contestgamer said:

Darashiva said:

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.

30+15 hours is about the average workweek, except you get to spend a third of it at home grading etc. Try working in a factory 8 hours a day for 20k a year and see how you like that.

You clearly just don't understand what teacher's do. It's so far removed from just holding lessons and grading tests on your free time. So here's a few things you might want to take into account as well, besides the 30 hours of lessons and 15 hours of working at home. Parent-teacher conferences, students who require constant additional help during every single class you hold, which might include up to 30 students at once. This would mean that in a class where 27 students can study normally, that would still leave three students who might require constant supervision to be able to get anything done at all, which leaves those 27 students with little to no attention from the teacher.  Of course then there's the fact that a teacher is generally expected to be available for parents to contact about matter regarding their children at almost all times. That's not even close to everything, but just a start. You're lucky if you get away with a 40 hour work week as a teacher.

And the thing is, it's not ultimately the teachers who suffer the most from schools not having the funding and teachers not getting compensated properly for the work they do. It's the students who'll eventually pay the most for this, since they won't be getting a proper education when there are no more qualified teachers to do their job.