and I think this articles is for every teachers like morgan hill
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What, may I ask, were you doing at school for 17 hours on either Saturday or Sunday? I have a hard time believing that occurred unless it was some sort of extracurricular activity. For that matter, what students were on your campus prior to or after 6? I simply don’t believe you.

Provide me with some verifiable data of all this supposed overtime teachers (in general) work and I’ll be happy to recalculate. However, don’t assume everyone works a 40 hour week. My standard work week is six 20 hour days (including National holidays) – and I don’t get a single minute of overtime. In fact, I still make less than the average teacher in Morgan Hill. And I’ll happily scan in my pay stub to show y’all.

Locall garbage collectors make about $23 an hour. Would I say that is too much? No, because they perform a service I have no desire to do. Do teachers make too much? No, they perform a service most people do not want to do, otherwise schools would close because so many would be homeschooling.

Ask any parent on the third rainy day of vacation, teachers are not overpaid. They not only maintain order with large groups of children, they keep them engaged in academic content.

Not sure why your comment got caught in the moderation queue I actually ended up addressing the level of education comment in another comment lower on the page before discovering your comment.

I’ll take your word on the 80% health benefits figure. I pulled the hundred out of an old news article about the 1993 strike (that I can’t find again). Still, an 80% benefit is far more than most people receive these days.

I hope you do get something worked out on the supplies issue. At my daughter’s school they got around the problem by offering extra credit to students who bring in extra school supplies (a solution I’m also not happy with). I also hope, however, that once a solution is found I’ll stop hearing teachers (and their supporters) complain about the issue.

The link you included is wonderful. THANK YOU! Trust that there will be more articles of this nature in the future aimed at other public employees and that link is a great starting point. On to the specifics, I thin kit’s ridiculous that the average Principal in your district (not hard math, just an eyeballing) makes twice what the average teacher does. And why on earth does a Public K-12 school district need a “Director Of Student Housing”?!? Even setting aside (for the moment) his $167,739 compensation package, this seems to be a pointless post.

For the record, I’m not saying that teachers ARE overpaid. I’m not sure if they are or not. I just strongly disagree that they’re nearly as underpaid as the media (and the teacher’s unions) portray them. The point of the post was to open discussion, not to take teachers to task. I think teachers do a great service. Even the bad ones are a good thing top have around, and the good ones are absolutely indispensable.

As for your first point, I couldn’t agree more. You could not pay me enough to be an elementary school teacher (although college or private high school could be cool). There are many jobs I would never accept at the offered pay rates. however, instead of taking the job and complaining about the pay I simply find a different line of work – something that teachers are free to do.