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> It's a disgrace that our college-educated professional teachers are so under-valued they have to take on multiple side-jobs just to maintain their economic st
by brandonmenc 12y ago
> It's a disgrace that our college-educated professional teachers are so under-valued they have to take on multiple side-jobs just to maintain their economic status quo.
If you dig around the author's Google+ account, his wife appears not to work.
I'm not casting stones re: single worker households - particularly if they're living within their means - but an American household wanting to do more than just scrape by requires multiple incomes. That's been the case for decades.
Anecdotally, I have some teachers in my family, and as far as I can tell they really do get summers off. It wouldn't be a crime for any of them to get a summer job, imo.
I'm not commenting on teacher pay in general, just that working two jobs is not always a horrible injustice.
- mullingitover 12y agoThe two-income household is sort of the 'betray' option in prisoner's dilemma. If nobody did it, labor would be vastly more valuable, and nobody would need two incomes to support a family (generally). Kids get a full-time parent, nobody has to depend on day care, it's an awesome deal for families. However, as soon as the critical mass of people starts depending on the extra income stream, the value of the labor drops and eventually that extra worker in the household isn't optional, it's required in order not to live a life of borderline (or real) poverty.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoMoloch at work. In the end everything stays the same, only everyone's position is worse.
- coryrc 12y agoYeah, because no one can create wealth, especially not women...
- mullingitover 12y agoWell that's a pretty sexist thing to say, and why even bring gender into this at all?
- coryrc 12y ago1. sarcasm 2. What do you think the predominant gender is of all these second spouses that "now" have jobs and are "driving down wages"?
- rday 12y agoMy wife is a teacher. I have no idea how this guy has two jobs with 100 students. When does he grade papers? When does he read reports? When does he plan his classes with other teachers? From what I've seen, the summer off is a bit of compensation for the 12 hour work day during the school year.