I'm curious fatslob, why are you using the average salary of US teachers and not the average salary of teachers in West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Arizona, and Colorado where teachers are striking? We know that deep blue states will pay their teachers well, so you have to look at the rest of the country to see why they are striking as the education budget continues to get slashed in many states.
Check this link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2018/03/05/how-much-or-little-teachers-earn-state-by-state/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.530ef79af819
That link has a nice handy chart for you. Pay attention especially to how some states, particularly the states that the teachers are striking in, are paying their teachers on average less than they did almost 20 years ago.
Now I hope you learned enough in school to figure out why having a salary that is lower than what it was almost 20 years ago is a pretty bad situation.
Last edited by Megiddo - on 09 May 2018
