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Originally Posted by SilkMoneyLove
As a Wisconsin Parent, (tax payer and have a kid starting school in September) I can tell you I have an easy answer to this problem.Give the teachers a raise, hold a certain amount of their pay as performance based and make the school year round (like a real job), with trimesters. If the kids are learning all year long, they have a better chance of getting better grades and getting the info to sink in. Also, parents would not have to pay for summer camps and other BS because our school system thinks everyone lives on a farm and needs to do summer farm work BS. How to pay for it? My taxes will go up. Guess what? They will anyway, at least this way everyone involved would get something out of it.
I can count all of the "great" teachers I had on one hand, the rest of them could have been replaced by robots. Besides, teaching was one of those "noble" professions that weren't supposed to make much money.
When I was a pizza guy, I didn't tell the owner to pay me $40 an hour or else me and all the other pizza makers would strike/call in sick. I took the job while I needed it until I found something better. If teachers don't like their deal, they are free to move on to a real job. One with a retirement account that you have to fund yourself and pay for your own healthcare, because that is how it is in the real world.
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"A real job?"
There is considerable data available for you to research on whether or not year round school is worth the time and money where academic success is the marker. Do a little homework and you'll see that the jury is very much still out on that one.
Parents wouldn't have to pay for summer camps and other "BS", because they'd have year round baby sitters. Tell you what, if educators are baby sitters, then we deserve baby sitter's pay. Around here, twelve year old girls get 5 dollars an hour per kid. 5 x 30 x 6.5 = 975 dollars a day times a 180 day school year is 175.5K per year. I'll take that in a heartbeat. Sadly for parents who don't want to pay for summertime "BS", we ain't baby sitters.
While the traditional school year is certainly based on the agricultural calendar and is no longer relevant, no educator thinks all his or her kids live on a farm.
Most people can probably only recall a few truly great teachers. For that matter, most can only recall a few truly great doctors, lawyers, Mercedes mechanics and pizza boys. What's the point?
Who was it anyhow who decided teachers weren't supposed to make any money. Your source please?
You mentioned "real job" twice. Your bias and jealousy are showing as clearly as Uranus.
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