If education is so important, teachers should get paid more money to teach students. Yet, basketball players and other professions get way more money than teachers could ever possibly dream of getting. Some people wonder why the U.S. educational system is crap and one of the main reasons for this is that teachers are not respected enough. The U.S. shows just how much the teaching profession is respected when teachers get paid very little. Although the teaching profession is not about money, I am quite sure that many educators would appreciate more money, and it will attract some of the best and brightest minds to the teaching profession. Students need to learn, and upsetting teachers over their salary is not going to help the students. Teachers have to live in this world, too. Don't no one wants to struggle to make a living, and live from one weeks pay to the next weeks pay. Does anyone else feel that teachers deserve more money? I know that at my high school teachers deal with so much. Many of the students are utterly rude and disrespectful, and the teachers have to teach them not only education but morality. They do not get paid enough for their troubles.
Teachers need more respect
By Isaac Terry - Posted on June 1st, 2007
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I agree but I think the teachers most of the time get paid by the state (see government). While pro athletes are privately owned...at least thats my theory :/
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evidently entertainment is valued higher than education. sad...
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Interesting you guys bring up entertainers. In Japan, the best teachers get paid salaries comparable to those of Japanese baseball players. I don't think teachers "deserve" to be paid more just because they are teachers. I think teachers should be paid according to their performance. This would provide an incentive for quality instruction and would attract the best and the brightest to the profession.
I agree that having teachers get paid for their performance would be a good thing sine it has been my experience that some teachers are simply in it for the money. Those teachers usually do not teach very well and should get paid less or even better fired! However, I question how this kind of system would be set up. If I teach in a high-income neighborhood I can be a relatively bad teacher and yet still outperform a teacher in a low income school. We can't ignore social factors.
"some teachers are simply in it for the money"...
Um...
Really?
Because I make about the same amount working as an assistant manager at a shoestore as I will when I'm teaching.
And let me tell you, it's not very much.
Anyone going into education for the money is an idiot.
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What's the worst that could happen, apart from all of us being flattened or fried or whatever bombs do? [Rudy Steiner from The Book Thief]
It isn't just the money, it is the other perks that come with the job. Some respect, the ability to say "i'm doing something for the good of everybody," weekends and holidays off, three months vacation, medical, dental, and here in California, nearly $40,000 your first year of teaching with a four year degree and credential. Not too bad. Plus, the salary can go up with post grad units, a masters degree, and years of teaching.
When I say they are in it for the money, I mean they see teaching as just a job, a better job than most, but still just a job. I don't see education as "just a job." When I see teachers simply going through the motions, it aggrevates me.
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Like I said, I'm making about as much as an assistant as I will be as a teacher. $40,000 is not good money unless you're single and live in an apartment by yourself.
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What's the worst that could happen, apart from all of us being flattened or fried or whatever bombs do? [Rudy Steiner from The Book Thief]
I seriously think teachers need to be taught better how to teach! Teaching is just not teaching, it is having a good relation with their students so students will respect them vice versa. It's being passionate about what they teach, and teaching them more than just textbook stuff. Its about teaching how to use what they learn in the outside world. Otherwise, don't consider being a teacher if they can't handle being someone that students can come to for help about school, life and other stuff.
Some people view education as the transmission of knowldge and skills but it is not. Students do not receive knowledge the way TVs receive signals. Students must feel respected and cared before they begin listening to what the teacher has to say. Even then though, after they have opened up their ears, they must synthesize this information with their experience. If their experience does not match the new information, then they will experience dissonance. Like you said, education must relate to their lives, at least to some extent.
The reason why educational systems are crap, is because they all are!
All are being molded (educated) for one purpose only, to become a long life taxpaying (slave) number.
That invisible chain one already has around his live, will become nothing more than a long life chain of debt.
In time they will put one up with a microchip in order to monitor one’s behavior!
Throughout education one is being molded to fit inside that “box” they have ready.
One will be pushed inside that box when fitting the profile they so easily create throughout education.
Many carry that fake artificial illusion of being free, while most amongst us sadly enough never even have had a fragrance of freedom coming past the noose.
Authority that provide teachers with education material, already know how much one dreams of getting, because they control not only one’s life, but one’s dreams too!
Teachers are cool, but they would eventually earn more respect if they would tell the truth about your education, if doing so, unfortunately they would loose all of your trust!
Teachers all carry but a small amount of truth, question them and they will be questioned by a different authority if they provide you the truth!
Depending were they teach, they earn crap, unless they are asked to go private were they teach the truth to the one’s that are chosen out by the one’s that put and keep all on a chain.
Those teachers earn big time money, mmmm….
I agree 100%. State construction workers make about the same as a teacher in my state. I think the construction workers deserve every bit of their salary, but I still think teachers deserve more. I considered teaching at one point, but changed my mind when I realized I would be making the same amount I made waitressing (Teachers salaries are the lowest in the nation where I live) and would have to work more hours. I like the idea of performance-based pay increases: if your students do well in the subject or grade that you teach, congratulations, teacher-you get a bonus!
teachers should get paid more and should get more respect from student becasue all they are trying to do is their job.
There are good ones and bad ones. Worst ones I had were yellers. That did not accomplish much. There are people who are jerks period and do not deserve to be teaching. I had a Home ec teacher once that told class she hated kids. DUH why teach.
I think we need to plan for the future. It will be to the point where kids dont have enough books. there should be ebooks availiable for those who can to read while at home to do homework.
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