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Old 12-02-2012, 12:53 PM  
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I just looked up the average salary of ELEMENTARY school teachers. Holy fuck! They make over 50 grand a year! And that's an average of the bottom rung of teaching.
http://www1.salary.com/Teacher-Eleme...ol-Salary.html
So you expect a teacher to earn how much? Keep in mind that they went to college.

I used to think teachers made decent money and had summers off until I had a kid in school and I saw how their worked. They work eight hours a day at school, and after hours they grade papers and plan out the following day's lessons - being as they can teach five or six classes, that's a bit complicated to do on a daily basis and after hours at at that. Then, more often than not, they have to attend after school events. They also coach our kids in after school sports programs. Summers off aren't summers off; They attend classes to keep their education up to date, and also spend time planning out the next year, etc.

Pretty crappy job for $50k a year really. Then you figure the average cashier at Wal Mart makes $40k a year and doesn't have school loans, and well, you get what you pay for.

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Same for cops:
http://www1.salary.com/police-officer-Salary.html

That doesn't count the teachers with tenure and PHD's or the cops who are detectives and lieutenants, etc.
Cops are so underpaid it's not funny. $75k a year so you can people beat up on you every day. I have four friends that are police officers - two CHP, one sheriff, and one a local officer - and they all tell me every day they get hit, punched, slapped, kicked, spit on, and stabbed at. Of course, this doesn't take in to effect that they might get shot and killed at any moment.

The CHP officer who lives across the street from me just bought himself a little BMW, cute car. Good for him. He deserves it for what he puts up on a daily basis.
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