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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
Government jobs have always been fairly low paying, so good benefits are how you attract folks to work.
My wife is a teacher in the lowest socio ecoomic school in Lafayette. She works really hard to try to help kids who often have not much positive in their lives going on.
When she started teaching 35 years ago she made about half to 2/3 what a graduate Architect could make. Now she makes about the same. Another example of how you attract quality folks to a profession where there is not much chance for moving up.
It really honks me off when folks make blanket negative statements about educators.
She comes home in tears many days over the years when she cannot figure out how to reach a kid, or if she knows something nasty is going on at a kids home but she cannot do anything about it.
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I in no way intended to disparage all teachers, or all union employees or even all public servants (sic).
My wife was actually trained as a teacher, one of her best friends is a teacher, one was (retired after 25 years) and my neighbor is a teacher.
All are very good at their jobs.
In any industry there are bad apples, in my field (IT) there were more than our share I think.
But somehow those bad apples need to be removed, unions, tenure and public employment make removing them very very difficult.