I was reading an article about the Democratic debate that happened a few days ago, and apparently they all agreed teachers should be paid more (I didn't personally watch it). I scrolled through the comments and found this comment with the following response:The responder also stated in a later comment that every they listed had a Bachelor's degree in reference to them needing to get their Master's.
I was always under the impression that teachers got paid enough and whined and complained about nothing. Then I found the following SS that's been circulating in my area for the past couple of days. It's a message a teacher sent out to the parents of her students this school year concerning homework:What do you think? Does America as a country and society do enough to support teachers and education? My husband thinks teachers get paid plenty and are respected enough for what they do and only the ones who care about the check leave. His family agrees with him, and they think that if they for more money then they do not care about the kids who need them. I kind of agree to an extent, but I don't think it's so cut and dry. Caring for kids doesn't pay your bills so I understand they should make enough to support themselves especially if they're also responsible for buying their own supplies.
Updates
+1 y
So... I see lots of people talking about teacher pay when all I asked is if we support teachers. Support does not necessarily come in the form of a paycheck 🤷🏽♀️
Do you think America supports its teachers?
Post Opinion
Like
Share
Follow
3 likes
What is your opinion?
Add Opinion
Most Helpful Opinions
Anonymous
(25-29)
+1 y
The issue of teachers' salaries is a self-correcting "problem". If teachers were underpaid, there would be a shortage of teachers and the very same market forces that ultimately dictate salaries in other fields would automatically force teachers' salaries to adjust upward. But that has not happened and there are very good reasons for that. Teaching is a very attractive profession to a lot of people because it is relatively unskilled, relatively easy, very rewarding in some important ways that are especially attractive to women (sorry ladies, but let's dispense with the political correctness be honest for the purposes of this discussion), has great benefits and allows teachers to take their summers off. That is why so many people, and especially women, choose it as a profession.
I have heard people make the argument that teachers' salaries is an issue of sexism, and that if there were more men in teaching the salaries would be higher. That argument is false and completely backward. The fact is there are fewer men in teaching because the salaries are low. It's not that men don't enjoy teaching, but rather that they choose higher paying fields, as is evidenced by the fact that more than 3/4 of college professors are male.
So, why do men go after higher paying jobs than women? Because they have to. Unlike women, men know they are valued by society in general, and women in particular, based on their earnings and status. Women, on the other hand, have the "luxury" of choosing lower paying but more satisfying and rewarding fields... such as teaching.
With few exceptions (namely fields that require physical strength) today women can choose virtually whatever fields they want and can be successful in them, just like men. But they flock to certain fields that are particularly rewarding to them in non-monetary ways, like teaching. Why? Because they can. Simply put, women have more freedom in choosing a profession than men do because women know their value is not judged based on their earnings to nearly the extent than men's value is. Most women plan to get married and, whether they admit it of not (to themselves or anyone else), they know the primary breadwinner in the family will be their husbands.
So again, low teachers' salaries is a self-correcting "problem". I put problem in quotes because it's not really a problem at all, because just like men, women can choose whatever career they want, and if they decide to prioritize earnings the same way men do, they can choose to earn just as much as men do by choosing a profession that pays a higher salary. But in the case of teaching, they choose to prioritize other factors ahead of earnings. And that is fine, but they need to be honest about it and go into that decision without blinders on.
I love to fish, and I have worked as a fishing guide in the past. I enjoyed it because it fulfilled so many of my needs as a human being and as a man. It was very rewarding on multiple levels. But sadly I had to leave guiding and get a higher paying job because being a fishing guide doesn't pay enough. As a man, the money I earned as a guide would never support a family and would never attract the kind of woman I want as a wife and the mother of my children. Such is the choice aspiring teachers need to make as well.
So, to answer your original question, yes America does indeed support its teachers, and it pays them exactly what they are worth. That's how the market works, for teachers, fishing guides and every other profession.
0
4 Reply
Opinion Owner
+1 y
I also want to point out that the value of our public school system is compromised by the fact that it really only does a good job of meeting the needs of half of the children in the US. Boys and girls are different in how they learn, the schedule at which they learn and what they need to be successful. Today's public schools are failing miserably at meeting the needs of boys. While I don't place all the blame of that on teachers, they are certainly deserving of a lot of the blame. I think a lot more people would be supportive of teachers if they did a better job for ALL students, not just their female students. Teachers should know better than anyone what those needs are and they should be driving the charge to make necessary changes. I don;t see that happening at all, and in fact what I mostly see is resistance to it and even denial that there is a problem at all, which is really sad if you think about it.
Interesting about the economic aspect of male teachers not getting paid enough to support family. On the other hand this is important only if you want to start a family. Being that most marriages end in divorce and it is usually the man that gets screwed in the process , why would any man want to get married in the first place?
@Texaskid1 That is an excellent question, and one that more and more men are clearly taking very seriously. It's no surprise that women are more interested in marriage today than ever while the percentage of men wanting to get married is at an all time low.
"The share of young men (ages 18 to 34) who say that having a successful marriage is one of the most important things in their lives has dropped six percentage points since 1997, from 35% to 29%. For women, the opposite effect occurred, as the share voicing this opinion rose from 28% to 37%."
At one time teachers were very low paid. I remember in the early 70s when I was picking a college major. The major I picked was the second lowest paying profession. Teaching was the only one that was lower.
The psyche in the US is that teachers are low paid. It's a carry over from several decades ago when they really were low paid. But it's no longer true. Teachers are very well paid today, yet this idea that they are underpaid still persists.
The person saying they were paid 33K is a classic example of cherry picking. Both the pay and hours worked are cherry picking and not representative.
The truth is that teachers make very good pay, especially if you include benefits which are FAR better than the public sector. The pension alone is worth a heck of a lot. Extremely few people outside of the public sector have a pension.
The average teacher salary in the US is well above the national average for all jobs. Add in the fantastic benefits and they do very well for themselves.
If you want to compare teaching with other professions, you can't cherry pick and compare apples to oranges.
Hmm so a little basic research setting aside the anecdotal I know a chemical engineer that works fewer fours than me stuff
Teachers on average work about 60 days fewer than the average non governmental worker.
Teachers who have work 35plus years as a teacher get a pension that on average pays $75k per year. (Note that this specifically excludes teachers with pensions that have worked fewer years and retired because it makes the pension benefit cost appear much lower)
So you can literally retire at the age of 57 and get a 75k/ yr pension coli adjusted In future worth that’s about $1.2M dollars.
Further, public school teachers have a job stability that almost no one in non governmental jobs can enjoy. Protected by unions and the government both with a never dying necessity for teaching it’s just a fabulously stable environment when compared to say... trades like machinist or construction
So I’d say that teachers take lower pay in exchange for a set of benefits that you simply won’t see in other industries.
I’d be more than happy to support a much better pay package in exchange for killing pension and requirements for individual performance. I think it’s better for the kids and the community but I’m betting that that’ll never happen because that pension is a killer benefit unlike what most of America sees.
This is a country wherein there's always somebody complaining about something. Teachers are complaining. Somebody's complaining for or on behalf of the Teachers. There are people complaining for or on behalf of the Teachers who are not complaining. There are people complaining about the Teachers. There are people complaining about the people who are complaining on behalf of the Teachers. There are people complaining about the people who are complaining about Teachers.
Most (certainly not ALL) teachers are left leaning Democrats who teach reading, writing, arithmetic, social values, LGBT lifestyle, socialism, and other non-academic matters which advance the agenda of the left, the NEA, and the Democratic Party.
I live in a pretty liberal place and we definitely do not have LGBTQ in the curriculum. My aunt teachers 5th grade English and history, and she definitely doesn't teach that, either. She might teach about socialism as part of the curriculum but doesn't encourage anyone to do it. She's not allowed to discuss political believes as she can be fired. I know she's mentioned having some type of advisory class where kids get 15 minutes to discuss any concerns they have in school or how to be better citizens at the start of the school day, but I don't know specifically what she does.
What things do you see in classrooms make you think that's what teachers do? Or is that what you just see in the news?
What's wrong with reading, writing, and arithmetic?
Okay so then answer my other question. What things do you see in classrooms make you think that's what teachers do? Or is that what you just see in the news?
I grew up in a liberal school. It's not directly stated but those are indoctrination centers. They do it in ways where they always have deniability. Any opportunity to bash whites is taken and anything unsightly in minority cultures is not mentioned. Facts are omitted or misrepresented to the point where you practically learn alternative history. I'm 30 and still unlearning what I was taught.
Did you know the Klu Klux Klan provided necessary vigiliantism when there was no social order? This is never mentioned because that would require implying the blacks they were killing were criminals. That's politically incorrect.
Liberal schools are disgusting places. It is not the teacher's fault. The teachers are drones who are required to teach exactly what they are told to or they risk losing their job. They have almost no say over what goes on in their own classroom. They get their assigned books, assigned lessons, are forced to pass failing students or keep troublesome ones if the institution wants to. So why should we pay them well at all?
The whole system is rotten and feels like a scheme to suck up taxpayer. They lower the standards and do anything they can to raise the graduation rate because the state only pays them if students pass, so they pass everyone. They exploit the fact that the public see's teachers as 'noble' to demand more money. The parts of it that aren't an indoctrination center are a business trying to maximize profit, not educate kids. I had a friend who got educated in a private school and by the time he finished 8th grade he exceeded the learning that students who finish high school get. That's how inefficient our public schools are, because they do not care about education.
@OlderAndWiser That's a recent development. Public school suffered from a lack of interest in politics and society when I was a teen. Nobody could be bothered to have political opinions. No one expected us to, unless we were on the debate team. And if we had an opinion we were told our opinions don't matter because we aren't old enough to have them.
And we had a club after school for LGBT students to discuss issues and resources in the event your parents disowned you and such. Then they shut it down after 2 weeks because "it sends the wrong message about our student body" which is slang for "we don't want people to think we support gay rights"
@ Monster Recluse, who told you that racist lying crap about the kkk? Culture of southern usa blackfolk was then and is to now what people saw on tv in the 1950s! Also, I took coursework in African American studies in college, including classes that examined the pathology apparent in the northern urban poor black communities. In high school, race and race relations and the true brutal history of this nation (usa) was not taught. It's quite shocking, the totality of it, but why try to deny it occurred? Why not rebuke it and overcome it?
@EnglishArtsteacher I have no reason to doubt that what you said is true about the school in which you teach, and perhaps in your entire school district, but I also cannot ignore those who tell me that this was true of the schools from which they recently graduated. I also suspect that the indoctrination is more intense at lower grade levels when younger minds are more receptive to incorporating whatever they are taught in the classroom.
Yes, overall they make enough. Our school district is very high with beginners getting $60K for 180 day years or $86,667 for a full year (260 day; 5x52 year). Even teachers that get "only" $35K are getting the equivalent of $50,556 per year, plus perks. Plus a pension which is typically 80%. (I got about 14% pension after 19 years and a forced retirement at a blue chip corporation). A friend of ours is a teacher and she gets a pension of about $62,000/year, more than I ever made in a year WORKING full time plus part-time to boot ! Enough on that.
Are the teachers supported? Not in the right way. The government (regardless of who is elected) is too busy with mandated this, and mandated that, and trying to force us to respect this group or that. Politics, you see, requires INactivity to succeed. Politicians have to give the IMPRESSION that something is happening when very little really IS. This allows them to run AGAIN to "continue our changes", and on and on. (Senator Durbin in the state of Illinois is an example of this again and again BS. ) Local politicians continue to throw (OUR) bad money after good and accomplish nothing with it except line their own pockets. Local school "administrators" get 6 figures and accomplish very little other than keep a chair warm for 1260 hours a year. "Common Core" is a total farce"- why reinvent the wheel? The school bus is bouncing enough! Teachers spend more time administering government programs than actually imparting knowledge and critical thinking skills for the students.
Is it any wonder why homeschooling continues to grow more popular each year?
I live in CA and teachers tend to start at $50,000 to $55,000 in most places around me. They had to complain for many years to get it up to that point. The problem now isn't that they don't get paid enough, the problem is that the schools waste money by replacing technology that is still good/usable with new equipment too often but don't spend money on regular, more useful classroom supplies. Teachers very often do have to buy their own supplies which adds up to a lot when it is for 25 to 30 students for each thing. I've seen them even having to buy class sets of books too with their own money which is ridiculous. Instead of buying the right supplies that are necessary, schools often spend money on computers to replace other computers than are perfectly fine already. They have computers in the classrooms and more of them in a computer lab room. And they continually replace them every few years, plus they keep replacing class sets of Chromebooks too. It is very wasteful and unnecessary.
Sure we can pay teachers more, but only if we cut the unnecessary jobs at school districts, the majority of jobs at schools are office and administration jobs that didn't exist decades ago. I would have a couple questions for the responder in the above post: How does the cost of living compare between where you live and where your friends you're comparing your salary to live? How do your benefits compare to them, not just vacation, which it still seems you have more of? How did you calculate the number of hours a week you work compared to the nurse (frankly I don't believe her, I know a lot of nurses and they work ridiculous hours)? Did you account for on call hours and nights/weekends? Teachers complain a lot about having to do lesson plans so they work more hours than what they are being paid for, but from what I've experienced at school, teachers only write these lesson plans once and then do minor updates each semester/year based on the students and keeping things up to date, so I really don't think it's as much as they say it is (I TA'd for a class in college for 4 semesters and it was literally the same lessons and homework, etc every semester). In my opinion what teachers lose in salary, they gain from benefits and job security, I think they make enough, but if it means we could cut the outrageous spending on education by getting rid of a lot of unnecessary administration and pay teachers a little more then let's do it.
0
4 Reply
Asker
+1 y
I think the nurse thing was weekly, not yearly. I'm related to several nurses who work a lot of hours for one day but they have more off days than they do on. A co-worker of mine has a daughter who is a nurse and she works 10-12 hour shifts (I think night vs day has different hours), but she also gets 3 days off, 4 if she chooses to over time on one of her 12 hour days. So if half her days were 10 hours and the other half were 12, that would 10 +10 +12 +12 = 44 hours. My aunt works contractual 8.5 hours for 5 days. 5 x 8.5 = 42.5 hours, and that's paid, not including take home work which nurses do not have. Teachers do not have the opportunity for overtime pay. So she was probably actually right. Teachers also have to give up planning time and lunch time as well to cover classes or watch kids, and some teachers hold after school detention as well. So I don't doubt that a teacher may actually work more hours than a nurse does.
I don't, not if those 8.5 hour days come with 3-4 hours of take home work plus work over the weekend for less pay than the 10x10x12x12. I'd rather do the nurse's hours to be honest.
I was a teacher until very recently and there are many perks but overall it is not a well-paid or glamorous position by any stretch. It’s pretty thankless overall. Yes there are lower paying jobs but these are not professions. Professional positions other than teaching pay much more and give more prestige. Why is it that of all the professions that pay much more than teaching, no one is saying they are over-paid? The reason is that teachers are paid out of taxes and people hate taxes. The high pay of other professionals also comes out of their pockets as high prices for goods and services. But since they don’t see the connection they care less.
When someone whines that teachers have it so good, ask them why they don’t become teachers. Really press them on changing careers to this “easy, high-paid” position. You will find they are horrified at the idea. They know that it’s a thankless profession and that would not be strong enough to endure the many demands
I was planning to teach this fall under the condition that I not have a first period class. The school is a long commute and I'm too old to get up at 6 every day. They assigned me an 8 am class and did not change it even though I calculated a schedule that satisfied all their requirements while allowing me a first period off. This was going to ruin my health. Then, a miracle happened. I've been working as a contractor for a high tech firm during the summers. They loved my work and offered me a job with a very flexible schedule. It's much harder intellectually than teaching (even chemistry and physics). The pay is better and I get much better health care and extra benefits. But to me the incentive is really the flexible starting hours and the appreciation I now get for going a good job.
If you do the actually math to account for how much the average teacher makes vs how much they actually work, they're basically getting paid a 6 figure salary but taking 3 months off every year. Plus they get a ridiculous amount of benefits. Does anyone outside of the government get a pension anymore? The answer is no. Let's also not forget the ridiculous benefits of their union. Like tenure, a system that makes it impossible for you to get fired if you've worked at a school for more than 4 years.
Sure schools could use more funding for materials and programs, but not for teacher salaries.
2
2 Reply
Asker
+1 y
Um... no lol. That girl in I took a SS of said her starting salary was $33,000 for 9 months. 33,000 divided by 20 pay periods is $1,650. So to make up the other 6 pay periods, that would be $1,650 x 6 =9,900. That would bring her to $42k.
In order for your statement to be true, you'd have to make at least $76,000, which most teachers won't get to at all without a Master's or without working 25 plus years. And even then you have to live in the right state.
Okay so I said the average, not that girl's starting salary. The national average currently is $61,730. Then you account for all the time off like spring break and winter break, not just summer. Which is easy because according to the rules of the teacher's union, they are only allowed to work 181 days a year. So 61,730 ÷ 181 = $341.05 per day. Now if you apply that wage to the amount of days you would work in a normal m-f job that doesn't have breaks you get 341.05 x 261 = $89,014.05 So it's a bit shy of 100k, but that is before factoring in any of the benefits.
Oh plus as the guy in your first picture stated, teacher's don't work a full 8 hours in a day like the rest of us, and schools are legally not allowed to increase their hours because of the union contract, unless the teacher volunteers. So if we factored it down to the hourly rate and then went up, it would be even worse.
Even as a high school teacher, I think most people here in the United States of America support teachers. I don't care about the isolated comments you posted, because I realize those are exceptions, and not the rule.
While I could argue we should get paid more, that's actually one of the last reasons my teaching job makes me feel resentment. The lack of support from administration, and the obscure expectations for my job make me want to look for a new career. While my wage isn't great, it's still not too bad compared to other jobs which require a Bachelor's Degree.
Everyone talks about the dollar wage, but that's not where the teachers' compensation actually comes from. The real way teachers are paid comes in the form of unbelievably sweet benefit packages. Shit... give me $35,000/year, retirement compensation and pension, job security, health insurance, summer vacation (should I even decide that I need/want it), easily met student performance standards; and I'll be happy. That's not even mentioning the other perks of being in the union, which often cover things like cheaper car/home insurance, discounted cellphone costs (assuming they don't give you a phone, which I am sure that some schools do)
0
0 Reply
Anonymous
(45 Plus)
+1 y
This is a multi level problem, and it really starts with the parents, many of whom send troublemakers and thugs to school and then defend them when they disrupt the school.
Then you have the administration and school board who won't discipline or expel those students, which means everyone else suffers.
Understandably, many of the best teachers quit, either taking better jobs or choosing a different career. The ones who remain are often not great teachers, but are the ones willing to put up with the crap for an easy paycheck.
I don't know that more money would solve the problem - being willing to hold problem kids accountable and standing up to the parents whose kids get thrown out is what would make a real difference.
Public schools are a joke, and wealthy people send their kids to private schools for good reason.
The situation in Oklshoma is so bad for teachers they are offering huge incentives for teachers to come there. Currently teachers only get paid ift they work, no pay any other time. They can't go on strike, because they can't afford it. All of them need summer jobs. There is so little money in education there, school is only 4 days a week because there's not enough money to keep the electricity on for 5 days. To get teachers they offer to pay off all student debt, but teachers in school aren't stupid. My sister went to OU for teaching and wants to teach in Texas.
They are paid just fine--quite well, even--for the work that they actually do. The problem is that they work roughly 75% of the year, and are thus only going to make roughly 75% of what people with comparable qualifications make in other professions--and they don't have the option to work more than 75% of the year in order to get paid more, even if they want to.
If education were fully privatized, teachers would get paid more because A) the industry as a whole would be more efficient and generate more revenue, and B) it would be less standardized, and teachers would have the option to work at some private schools that had more than 9 month calendars.
2
5 Reply
Asker
+1 y
Private schools pay significantly less, even if they are year round. Plus some states don't allow private school pay to count towards retirement or savings. My aunt said that's why she would never work for a private school.
Private schools pay less in the current landscape because any parent who sends their child (ren) to a private school is still forced to pay the same property tax rates that are used to fund the public school in the district in which they live, on top of the tuition they pay to the private school. They are essentially being forced, by the government, to pay tuition to two schools, one of which their child (ren) isn't/aren't even attending, because there is not even a voucher program, let alone full privatization.
As such, private schools are forced to lower their tuition to the point that the profit margin suffers too much to afford to pay teachers higher salaries. This wouldn't be a problem at all if education was fully privatized, and would at least be less of a problem if a voucher system were implemented.
"Plus some states don't allow private school pay to count towards retirement or savings"
Yes, and that's poor legislation--which again, likely wouldn't be a problem in a landscape in which education were fully privatized. That's exactly what we've been saying all along: the state is the problem. You're starting to get it.
That is not why private schools pay less. They pay less because they receive no government funding. Most public school funding is not provided by property tax. It's state and federal. Property tax pays for other things besides public school. Making school privatized won't make property taxes go down or go away. Besides, if your property isn't worth anything, your tax is lower. And with more people living in apartments these days, it really doesn't matter as apartment renters don't pay property tax.
"That is not why private schools pay less. They pay less because they receive no government funding."
Of course they receive no government funding. That's the POINT. They pay less because they exist in a landscape in which they cannot charge the tuition rates that they need to charge because all of their potential clientele are forced to fund their district's public school regardless. If there are 2 apple vendors, and the government says "You can buy apples from Vendor B if you want, but you have to pay the same amount to Vendor A either way. So you may as well just take the apples from Vendor A.", then OF COURSE Vendor B is going to suffer.
"Most public school funding is not provided by property tax. It's state and federal. Property tax pays for other things besides public school."
Property tax is not the only source of revenue that funds public schools, but it is the main one. However, it's not like it matters which tax it is, because it is all essentially pooled together at the federal level and redistributed, so the principle is the same regardless.
"Making school privatized won't make property taxes go down or go away."
Um... yeah it will. I don't even know how else to address that statement.
"Besides, if your property isn't worth anything, your tax is lower."
And that is yet another example of progressive taxation that results in forcible wealth redistribution. Those with properties of higher value shoulder more of the tax burden that funds public services that are primarily utilized by those with properties of lower value. If this process were voluntary (like private charity organizations), that would be great. This is theft. Period.
"And with more people living in apartments these days, it really doesn't matter as apartment renters don't pay property tax."
They don't pay an official property tax, in name. However, the property owner does pay a larger property tax, much of which is passed on to the renters because it is factored into their rent.
Teachers are hugely underpaid in many states compared to other professions. This makes it very difficult to attract bright students to teaching. Recent tax-cutting measures by Republican governments in many states made it even worse. Teachers in Oklahoma and Arizona went on a state-wide strike for higher pay.
You have a very odd understanding of what teachers do. Most do not have sabbaticals, most have a much longer day than 7 hours. They take work home every night. And schools in Florida are so poorly funded, that many teachers use their personal money to pay for school supplies for the kids. I don't know where you get your statistics from, but teachers in Florida are paid very poorly in most places.
Americas teachers ( and I know a few ) do not get paid enough and their biggest problem is the fact that parents are to lazy and do not discipline their own children ! the teacher has to discipline these brats while other children have to wait for the teacher to do the parents job which takes the teacher away from teacher other children
Teachers are not respected in American Society. It is obvious by the privatization of the school system through charter schools and white religious parents bringing their kids to religious schools to avoid science class. My Best friend had to move to Kwigillingok Alaska from Ohio just to make a decent salary.
No. No they don’t and they really need to be paid more. Ignorant and prejudiced people don’t want to help do it though. Oklahoma has the lowest paid salary of teachers and they went on strike last year, I heard.
The teacher is right but I feel it’s purposely.” Being done. The more uneducated people there are, the more control is consolidated to the hands of a few.
0
0 Reply
Anonymous
(30-35)
+1 y
the Democrats bring this up every single election. Then when they win, they don't do the things they promised. Still waiting for my increased teacher salary from the Obama years. They're just blowing smoke in another desperate attempt to get votes. Yes, I think America supports their teachers well enough. They don't hold them in the same regard as national heroes, but they also don't have the same requirements for them as other countries do. Here, you can get paid for being a teacher by being a grumpy bitch and whining about the president. Your job is not at risk for failing to teach your students. Other countries, that pay teachers far more, hold them to higher performance standards.
My next door neighbor is a divorced gym teacher living in a house worth up to ~$500,000 and is constantly upgrading his house and yard. He retired in his forties.
He was a glorified babysitter for 20 years and now he gets to chill for the rest of his life.
Hmmmm... he must have some other form of income. Maybe he inherited some money or won the lotto. Or perhaps all of his monthly income goes to making house payments on a mortgage that he will never pay off. No way a teacher could afford a half million dollar home on teaching alone.
Nope, They have one of the most important jobs in the world we wouldn’t have the technology we have to day if it wasn’t for teachers Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos would never had be able to do what they did had it not been for teacher who taught them how to read write and perform math problems all teachers should be getting paired 100,000 a year because there job is so important to society
@dropkicknj13 I’ve always struggled with reading and writing since I’m dyslexic with math I’ve always been a grade ahead of other students. showing my work is what always got me in school but I could easily do the problem in my head. The teacher could never read my writing since my hands shake do to PTSD from my biological mother but I could easily explain the process and the answers were always right
Some do. But nothing truly meaningful. They get shitty pay, a stressful job from students/parents/violence, they pay for their own supplies, are usually under funded in general and get attacked by politicians when they ask for a small raise. We pay such lip service to the ones who educate our kids, but then we nickle and dime them.
Girl's Behavior 
Guy's Behavior 
Flirting 
Dating 
Relationships 
Fashion & Beauty 
Health & Fitness 
Marriage & Weddings 
Shopping & Gifts 
Technology & Internet 
Break Up & Divorce 
Education & Career 
Entertainment & Arts 
Family & Friends 
Food & Beverage 
Hobbies & Leisure 
Other 
Religion & Spirituality 
Society & Politics 
Sports 
Travel 
Trending & News 
Most Helpful Opinions