On the average, teachers are better paid than architects or economists according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. From today's Opinion Journal:
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, public school teachers earned $34.06 per hour in 2005, 36% more than the hourly wage of the average white-collar worker and 11% more than the average professional specialty or technical worker.
I've always maintained that we overpay most teachers, because you just will when the system is based on how many years you can stomach showing up for work instead of how well you do your job. This, too, is addressed in the article:
In fact, the urban areas with the highest teacher pay are famous for their abysmal outcomes. Metro Detroit leads the nation, paying its public school teachers, on average, $47.28 per hour. That's 61% more than the average white-collar worker in the Detroit area and 36% more than the average professional worker. In metro New York, public school teachers make $45.79 per hour, 20% more than the average professional worker in that area. And in Los Angeles teachers earn $44.03 per hour, 23% higher than other professionals in the area.
Hell, I've been an Oracle database administrator, an applications development manager, a project manager and am now in charge of a global initiaitive and I certainly don't pull down figures like that. Wish I could start getting a garaunteed raise every year from a job that it's virtually impossible to get fired from.
Teachers are trusted with our most important resource, our children's future. A good teacher can change a child's life, and should be rewarded far beyond anything I should dream of. But sadly, these teachers are far too few and the crop of administrators running our schools are even worse.
And don't give me that crap about teachers buying their own school supplies. Our schools have regular rip-offs fundraisers and ask for donations of pens and paper.
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On the average, teachers are better paid than architects or economists according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. From today's Opinion Journal:
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, public school teachers earned $34.06 per hour in 2005, 36% more than the hourly wage of the average white-collar worker and 11% more than the average professional specialty or technical worker.
I've always maintained that we overpay most teachers, because you just will when the system is based on how many years you can stomach showing up for work instead of how well you do your job. This, too, is addressed in the article:
In fact, the urban areas with the highest teacher pay are famous for their abysmal outcomes. Metro Detroit leads the nation, paying its public school teachers, on average, $47.28 per hour. That's 61% more than the average white-collar worker in the Detroit area and 36% more than the average professional worker. In metro New York, public school teachers make $45.79 per hour, 20% more than the average professional worker in that area. And in Los Angeles teachers earn $44.03 per hour, 23% higher than other professionals in the area.
Hell, I've been an Oracle database administrator, an applications development manager, a project manager and am now in charge of a global initiaitive and I certainly don't pull down figures like that. Wish I could start getting a garaunteed raise every year from a job that it's virtually impossible to get fired from.
Teachers are trusted with our most important resource, our children's future. A good teacher can change a child's life, and should be rewarded far beyond anything I should dream of. But sadly, these teachers are far too few and the crop of administrators running our schools are even worse.
And don't give me that crap about teachers buying their own school supplies. Our schools have regular rip-offs fundraisers and ask for donations of pens and paper.
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