>If the teachers make $24/hr, that means they're working 11.25 hours per day, assuming a 185 day work year. My apologies, but you have no idea how much work a

>If the teachers make $24/hr, that means they're working 11.25 hours per day, assuming a 185 day work year. My apologies, but you have no idea how much work a teacher actually does. A lot of it is indeed done after hours, and yes, 11-hour work day is not atypical. There's lesson planning, endless grading, paperwork, and that's just to start. But, as the other commenter here said - it all doesn't matter. $50K is $50K, and after all the juggling, a teacher in SV can't even rent an apartment in SV. All that is to say that the US is really not solving its education problems by throwing money at it, as suggested by a parent comment, when a full-time teacher can't even rent an apartment with their salary in one of the richest and biggest metro areas.