Do you support the U.S. teacher strikes?

[Aeolus451]

gergroy said:

Aeolus451 said:

They are not underpaid. They work in office conditions and get a paid whole summer vacation. They're acting entitled. If anything, their workload should be increased to keep them busy enough so they can't have orgies with their students and maybe the kids will eat less tide pods. Btw, I'm not saying that the teachers all do that but it's happening alot more. 

Yeah, or maybe its because 1/3rd of their teachers aren’t even qualified to teach them because all the qualified people are leaving the profession and not enough people are entering it...  teachers also don’t get paid over the summer, those are no pay days.  You can choose to have your check split up so you get a paycheck, but we aren’t paid for that break.  Also sounds like you need to spend a day in a classroom.  I have worked construction jobs and landscaping jobs and you various minimum wage retail jobs and I am way more exhausted at the end of a day of teaching then any of those jobs. But whatever, sounds like you have your opinion, even if it isn’t based on reality...

They are paid a yearly salary based on the days they work for that year. Since they are off the entire summer and still paid the same amount as a welder on average who has to work the entire year to make the same, they are being paid for the summer. Teachers are being greedy. The school systems need more funding but it shouldn't go to higher pay for teachers or to the sports departments at the schools. 

I'm all for replacing the teachers with teaching PCs with a handful of tutors if they keep pushing for more pay. 😸