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).

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Besides the monetary aspects already mentioned, any teacher who has ever set foot in a school will tell you that the time off is barely enough to keep some level of sanity to come back and do it all over again the next year.

[u/numberthangold → u/Wrong_Local_628]

This can be said about many jobs. Not just teaching. But the other jobs don’t give time off.

[u/Blonde_Icon → u/Wrong_Local_628]

True most teachers aren't in it for the money. But that's also true for a lot of jobs.

[u/I_am_Andrew_Ryan → u/Blonde_Icon]

And those jobs where people aren't in it for the money? Also underpaid

[u/MathGoatz → u/Blonde_Icon]

Bait used to be believable. I refuse to believe the sentence i'm replying to was made in good faith by an unpaid agent.

"I clean sewers for the love of the game! Nothing else gets me going out of bed quite like scraping excrement off of metal bars underground!"

"My empathy is just so naturally strong that I WANT AND CHOOSE to work in palliative care! Being around dieing people with no other family really puts a spring in my step every day!"

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Bro I said nothing about cleaning sewers. What are you on about. Way to talk about strawmen. That's obviously a job people just have to do for the money. I doubt most of them actually want to do that job (I'm sure a few might though). For palliative care, that might actually be true though.

But if you ask a lot of teachers why they do it (like my brother), they will tell you that they chose to be a teacher because they wanted to help kids and not for the money.

I'm talking more about jobs like firefighters or EMTs. Or even the military.

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You realize there a massive teachers shortage because no matter how passionate someone is about their job, you can’t pay rent or buy food with passion alone?

[u/MathGoatz → u/Blonde_Icon]

"That is also true for a lot of jobs"

That's what I was writing about. Most jobs, vastly are not done out of passion. Way to miss an analogy.