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Raising two children is a job in and of itself. Considering our children are the future's consumers, you'd think it would pay better. Teaching in public school

• jujube3 3y ago
  Teachers can afford to raise children.
  • verall 3y ago
    This really depends on the state, but in many areas in the south, they cannot. ((Assuming we're talking about the US))
    • Clubber 3y ago
      Both my parents were teachers in the South and I had everything I needed and a lot of what I wanted, including computers when they were really expensive. I even grew up in a house. A lot of (rural) areas in the South are so poor, teachers are among the higher pay scale because they have a steady paycheck with health insurance. My area was a city though, so teachers were on the lower end.
  • debatem1 3y ago
    Well yeah. Just not their own. Snark aside, it's hard to imagine how you could raise kids plural on what a teacher makes here in Seattle. Even the absolute top of the teacher salaries here, after 12 promotions and with a PhD, pay about what my very first tech job did, many years and much inflation ago. I would never have tried to raise kids on that money.
• aidenn0 3y ago
  > Teaching in public schools would definitely fit in this category. Maybe not fresh-out-of-college but after 5ish years they almost certainly can afford it. The playground supervisors probably can't though.