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This is going to be a bad one....**zips up flame retardant suit**
There is this facebook C&P going around about how teachers make $1.50 an hour or some small sum like that. The very probably with this analogy is that it assumes that ONLY teachers work more than 8 hours a day. If that were the case - IF teachers were the only profession that worked 8 hours a day without overtime, I would feel bad.
Last week, by noon on Friday, I had pulled 70 hour week. In fact, I often work that many hours which includes the emails and phone calls I take in the middle of the night (I swear to God, my boss never sleeps), the work I take home with me (I usually work until 10, if not later), the work I do on the weekends (more than I should) - my hourly wage? Well, it sucks @ss too.
While I understand I am not a public servant, teachers are aware that they are "paid badly" before they become teachers and in that case, do you really have a right to complain? This isn't Russia, you have a choice in your career so.....pick wisely...
DITTO!
One of my co-workers in a another dept. is salaried. She complains about not getting OT everytime she doesn't get a lunch, gets called in after hours or if she doesn't get to leave by 4:30pm. I finally told her one day that-that was part of being a salaried employee and shut-up. Her job has always been salaried so I don't complain when you knew that you would not be getting OT from the day you took the offer on the job.
Is it ok for me to say I think you're a saint and I could never do what you do in regard to working with an entire classroom full of children, period (special needs or not?) I suspect I'd be in tears or have pulled out all of my hair after about 10 minutes.
I don't get the berating of teachers. Yes, they are very aware they are "paid badly" but that still doesn't translate into them being unable to complain about wages. Many do it because they love it and it is necessary, that doesn't mean they are required to remain silent about salaries.
I think it is rather embarrassing that teachers and public servants as a whole are not looked upon more fondly and with respect that the position warrants. I am more than sure you have some complaints about the amount of hours you work versus the amount you are paid, teachers should be given the same courtesy.
Can we be best friends forever - I totally agree!!!!!!!
And I want Kim K to marry Reggie Bush!!
That seems so much more believable than her marrying Kris Humphries.
I think Kim is just as money hungry as her mom! I could tell just watching the show that her and Kris Humphries were not going to last. Especially when they were talking about his New York place when she wanted something elaborate and he didn't and she told him she "was not going to lower her standards of living" or when they got engaged and all she could talk about was the size of her ring. Sorry honey but he ring does not make the marriage!
Oh, there are always ridiculous C&P's like that going around about teaching. It makes some our legitimate complaints seem ridiculous.
I do think teachers in Oklahoma are underpaid, but not by the amounts people like to claim.
And I was very aware of the salary before I made a career change to teaching. I am LOLing at anyone who was shocked by it. Hello...research your earning potential before you commit to a profession!
But...But... they're job creators!
I agree with this as well. I called off an engagement just a month before we were set to walk down the aisle. It was so humiliating. I kept telling people it "didn't feel right" and everyone told me that cold feet was natural. Hmm..cold feet or...my groom might be gay and I am not in love with him....Finally I had the courage to end it but it was *humiliating,* worse of all I had to endure everyone's opinions on the entire relationship yada yada - I can't imagine what that would be like on a larger scale. It is a pretty awful experience.
There are reports that even when they were ironing out their prenup they both acted pretty awful toward one another. That might be a clue. MAYBE.
I agree. I personally have a hard time hearing the frustration of teachers constantly complaining about salaries when we've heard the same argument for decades. Poor pay is nothing new. If you don't like it, choose a different profession that pays better. Both my parents were teachers and of course I knew they didn't make much, but never once did they ever vote for one of those ridiculous tax hikes to pay teachers more. One thing they did do, was to tell me not to become a teacher because the pay sucks. I didn't necessarily pick what I did because of that, but there's no way I would pay $$$$ tuition and earn a 4.0 GPA to make $25k a year. That's just not my personal choice - and I like what PW said about this not being Russia. True dat!
For me, it's not the hours or pay as a teacher, but the feeling that people don't appreciate the profession and what we do. People think they can be a teacher just because they went to school. It's a whole different ballgame at the front of the room. And it's a completely different generation of children (and parents!).
I'm okay with less than desirable pay as long as I feel respected in my career.
I agree! When I was pg with G, people would ask if I was finding out if we were having a boy or a girl and when I said no, most people said something like "yea, if you already have one of each, it doens't matter I guess"
umm...would it matter otherwise? What, would I decide I didn't want the baby if it wasn't the "other" gender? It just seemed silly to me. I have a friend who had a son and her second was a girl and she was a little sad. She really wanted 2 boys.
And with that, I think it is dumb when people ask if you are finding out the sex of your baby. I know they mean are you finding out before birth, but really, we all find out, some just not until he/she is born.
ITA!
I still ask too.
And another thing, I don't like to find out if my babies are boys or girls before birth, but I like it when other people do
lol! I don't care when people ask me if we're finding out/if we know the sex. I do get bugged when they ask me what I want...um, a baby? Even if I did have a preference, there's no way I would verbalize that so someone could forever remember that I had wanted a boy, but got a girl, or vice-verse.
You are probably right.
I know me too! I still haven't watched the wedding special yet....even though I know the ending you beat your @ss I am going to watch it anyway!
Teachers makin $1.50/hr is such BS.
I worked in an elementary school two school years ago. I was on the same pay scale as teachers, and held to the same contracted hours. I had to be in the building by 7:50 three days a week, and 7:30 two days a week for duty. I rarely came in earlier than that because I am not a morning person. I could leave at 3:35 each day. I usually left sometime between 4:00 and 4:30, occasionally stayed later. I got a 30 minute lunch. So, even if we stretch it and say my days were from 7:30-4:30 5 days a week, I worked 8.5 hours a day. 180 days a year, with a salary of $34,500. I made approx. $22.54 an hour. Yes, I sometimes brought work home, but I have yet to have a professional job where that didn't happen.
And I'll go ahead and say that if you're a teacher and you're consistently at your school until 5 or 6 pm (outside of extracuricular practices/games) and working every weekend, you aren't being very efficient or making good use of your time.