Teachers are NOT overpaid.

[49jim]

6. I've listened to this crap

about teachers being overpaid since I started as an elementary teacher in September 1971......for a salary of $7200.00....right after that Nixon put a freeze on salaries so my district dropped my salary to $6800.00. After taxes my take home was around $100.00 a week. We just got married and my wife was still in college. (by the way we are still married)...in December Nixon lifted the salary freeze and I was looking for a big retro check for Christmas shopping....came to less than $100.00 after taxes! I taught 1st,3rd and 5th grade for 9 years and went on to be an elementary principal for 23 years..which I thoroughly enjoyed....only way to beef up my salary. I am glad I'm not doing that now...a real head ache....CRT....crazy parents.....although... I certainly dealt with my fair share....just different issues....Retired at 52 with a full pension (NYS) and have been retired for 20 years. During retirement I taught early childhood at the local community college for fourteen years and finally retired in 2016. I actually had students in my college classes that were elementary students when I was principal. It was neat to see them.....they told me I looked different (grey hair)...but the recognized my voice!
I went off on a tangent.anyway.....I agree with the last poster...teachers are not overpaid....if anything very much underpaid and that hasn't changed in over 50 years. I also used this argument back to teacher critics over the years....come and walk in my moccasins.......usually got silence from them.....