Comment Re:Sad (Score 1) 818
Quit'your'belly aching. Teachers don't have it so bad.
Teacher salaries are decent for old-timers. Their salaries have nothing to do with performance or capability, but are exactly proportional to years of service. I thought this is the way teacher's like it - $$$ negotiated by union rules, not performance.
And, unlike engineers, teachers get sweet pension plans (most engineers these days don't have more than a 401K).
And, unlike engineers, teachers get much more in the way of vacation (even more than Swedish engineers), and much more in the way of sick time - which by the way, rolls over from year to year. I recall a teacher I know retiring TWO YEARS early due to accumulated sick time.
And I don't by this "40-60" hours a week of lesson plans - how many high school teachers do you remember that were winging it from 10 year old notes - I remember having quite a few?
Teacher salaries are decent for old-timers. Their salaries have nothing to do with performance or capability, but are exactly proportional to years of service. I thought this is the way teacher's like it - $$$ negotiated by union rules, not performance.
And, unlike engineers, teachers get sweet pension plans (most engineers these days don't have more than a 401K).
And, unlike engineers, teachers get much more in the way of vacation (even more than Swedish engineers), and much more in the way of sick time - which by the way, rolls over from year to year. I recall a teacher I know retiring TWO YEARS early due to accumulated sick time.
And I don't by this "40-60" hours a week of lesson plans - how many high school teachers do you remember that were winging it from 10 year old notes - I remember having quite a few?
