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Often it's the other way around. Just look at nurses. They are chronically underpaid, yet still do their jobs.
by k__ 4y ago
Often it's the other way around.
Just look at nurses. They are chronically underpaid, yet still do their jobs.
- yamtaddle 4y agoTeaching relies heavily on "just do this extra bit you don't really have to... it's for the kids, after all". Stay a little longer, get this extra thing done, just buy that thing yourself, come in a little early to help with this other thing. You're sick but this kid emailed to say they didn't understand the lesson the sub taught... and you could help, so you do. Implicitly, when not explicitly. It gets a lot more obvious that's what's going on after you leave education and see what a normal job is like. Which might be less insulting if the pay were competitive, but it's not that hard for a competent teacher to leave for another sector and see a 20-50% TC increase. You lose the Summers but everything else is better.