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1. Future pensions aren't relevant to a discussion of present income vs expenses. At issue here is whether or not a teacher might reasonably be cash-strapped.
by eavc 16y ago
1. Future pensions aren't relevant to a discussion of present income vs expenses. At issue here is whether or not a teacher might reasonably be cash-strapped.
4. Many teachers work over 70 hours a week. Your data includes preschool and middle school teachers. It includes P.E. teachers. It includes awful teachers.
I can promise you that there are many excellent teachers easily passing that number on a regular basis. My two closest teacher friends arrive at school before 7:30am and often don't leave until 6pm. They work through lunch. They often have days where they don't get home until 10pm due to athletics or arts activities they are involved in. They each make less than 40k a year.
I have seen it first hand. It's common knowledge among those who are close to teachers.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoFuture pensions are completely relevant. A person earning $60k/year needs to save at least $10k of that for retirement. A teacher earning $45k/year does not. Besides, if a teacher really feels cash strapped, he or she has 2-3 months in which to earn more money. For every teacher working 70 hours/week, there must be 7.75 teachers working only 35 hours/week (or 15.5 teachers working 37 hours/week, or some similar combination). To see this, observe that the BLS data I cited is capped below at 35 [1] and do some basic arithmetic. So at best, for every teacher working 70 hours/week, there are 7.75 teachers working 35 hour weeks.