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Old 05-06-2008, 07:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Agent_Grey View Post
The answer here is easier than you think. Everything listed in the previous studies is true, it's just that they almost always fail to reflect the fact that a teacher's year is three months shorter than most jobs. If you take that same per-hour rate and stretch it over a full 365 day year, you'll find that teachers really do make way less than most comprable professions as the first paragraph indicates.
Except for one thing - they don't work as long as anyone else ergo they don't make as much as others at teaching. If I only worked 10 months out of the year but made 90% of what others with my educational level made I am still ahead of them for the time I did work. Or do you think that we should pay teachers for not working, put them on welfare during the summer months?
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