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dutch777

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1. Right on! It is a travesty how little we pay teachers. Most of us wouldn't last a day trying to...

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Jan 11, 2022, 10:38 AM

Jan 2022

...lead a classroom of middle or high schoolers. Even if you ignore the fact that you not only have to manage the kids but help them learn too. I know I wouldn't make it. I have been tempted to get a school bus driving job in my retirement just for something to do and I do like kids but I bet I wouldn't even survive that for a week. God bless the teachers who have stayed with it during this awful turn of events. And kudos to the parents too, not sure I would have managed parenthood in the age of Covid either.

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Teachers are NOT overpaid. [View all] kpete Jan 2022 OP

Right on! It is a travesty how little we pay teachers. Most of us wouldn't last a day trying to... dutch777 Jan 2022 #1

Teachers determine our future, they should be paid as well as doctors or lawyers. Chainfire Jan 2022 #2

certainly as well as linebackers. rampartc Jan 2022 #4

Democrats fight for higher teacher pay and higher standards. Hortensis Jan 2022 #3

I have two words for anyone who thinks teachers are overpaid genxlib Jan 2022 #5

I've listened to this crap 49jim Jan 2022 #6

I have been making this argument for several years sanatanadharma Jan 2022 #7