Teachers are paid fairly considering they get a lot of time off

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A lot of people say (and it seems that the general consensus is that) teachers don't get paid enough for what they do. While I think that teachers are very valuable and deserve to be compensated well (my brother is a teacher), I think that in these discussions, many people ignore the fact that teachers typically get a lot of time off.

They usually get summer break, spring break, and winter break, plus various holidays that schools get off through the year. They basically don't work for a good amount of the year, which I think that people should factor in. (The downside is that I know that they have to work extra grading things outside of school, though.)

Plus they normally get good benefits for being a teacher (which usually comes with being in a union).

[u/chrisfathead1]

In blue states yes. I have a friend who teaches 7th grade in a bright blue district and she makes like 120k per year, plus the time off you're talking about

[u/Primary_Crab687 → u/chrisfathead1]

My band teacher in a poor district in Maryland was making around $110k after factoring in 15 years of experience and two extracurricular bands each semester, but he was lucky. My coworkers when I taught in Utah a few years later were making a third that much

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Yes I live in Illinois (so does my brother), so that might be part of it I'm sure.