• moshankey@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Retired schoolteacher of around 25 years. Blah blah blah. Yes, we have no private lives. I was warned of that every year. She did nothing wrong. More importantly, ask why she had to supplement her income. I would not be able to survive on what I would be making today.

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      9 months ago

      Supplement?

      If this is the one from a while ago, she was making 40k teaching and 120k on OF…

      The only reason she kept teaching was she actually likes teaching.

      But yeah, the best thing for a country long term is if educators are some of the highest paid positions. The investment into the next generation is one of the biggest pay offs. There’s a lot of geniuses out there that just get a dog shit education and never live up to their potential.

      Too many adults/voters just don’t see the benefit of investing in the future

    • fne8w2ah@lemmy.worldOP
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      9 months ago

      It’s especially criminal how teachers salaries have been allowed to outright stagnate over god knows how long.

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      9 months ago

      I almost changed careers to teaching and dodged a bullet. Still a very worthwhile masters with the combination of philosophy, psychology, statistics and data interpretation ,management, and assesment. Its really an incredible field and its to bad it gotten such a short shrift.