Do I wish I Got paid more?sure I do,but I got into teaching knowing I would never be rich. What I hate is a school board with businessmen and lawyers telling teachers how to teach, and then threaten to decrease my pay when a student who doesn't care about their education fails a state test.
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Do I wish I Got paid more?sure I do,but I got into teaching knowing I would never be rich. What I hate is a school board with businessmen and lawyers telling teachers how to teach, and then threaten to decrease my pay when a student who doesn't care about their education fails a state test.
Not a big fan of "No Child Left Behind" I take it?
PearlWatson
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My mom is a teacher, but that doesn't matter to the fact that teachers are paid well for 9 months of work. Not to mention excellent benefits and job security.
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Gyp Rosetti
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I teach but don't really. I more or less force learning.
generally they do get generous benefits and job security if they're in a district allows tenure, but more districts are tightening those requirements
in many districts where teachers are required to serve on committees, meet CLU requirements and expected to do lots of stuff beyond what they do in the classroom, the hourly rate is not nearly as high as it might seem if you just look at classroom hours
that said, there are a fair number of teachers who mail it in once they've got tenure and are teaching the same courses from year to year - or those whose salaries get bumped way up because they've earned advanced degrees and have lots of CLU hours for courses that don't really relate to anything they do in the classroom.
PearlWatson
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They don't even need tenure. It is almost impossible to get a teacher fired.
Even comparing hourly rates based on teacher's self reports of how many hours they worked weekly "teachers earned more per hour than architects, civil engineers, mechanical engineers, registered nurses...only lawyers, engineers, and doctors earned more." ~ Vedder (Ohio U economics professor)
AlaskanAssassin
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I'm in Grad School, studying accounting, for the sole purpose of having enough credits to sit for the CPA exam. It all really depends on what you want to do and if it will benefit you long term. The short-term financial obligation is small compared to the "potential" payoff. Consider these statistics:
Educational attainment in the United States, Age 25 and Over (2011)
Education Percentage
High school graduate 87.58%
Some college 56.86%
Associate's and/or Bachelor's degree 39.89%
Bachelor's degree 30.44%
Master's degree 10.95%
Doctorate or professional degree 3.00%
I remember growing up and my parents always saying "The more education you get the more $ you will make!" Not sure how true this is anymore. If there is a promotion you are seeking that requires a masters degree, that might be the right time to start toward your masters. On the other hand, if it's your dream and something that is very important to you, just do it. A genuine education is something that no one can ever take away from you.
Educational attainment in the United States, Age 25 and Over (2011)
Education Percentage
High school graduate 87.58%
Some college 56.86%
Associate's and/or Bachelor's degree 39.89%
Bachelor's degree 30.44%
Master's degree 10.95%
Doctorate or professional degree 3.00%
I remember growing up and my parents always saying "The more education you get the more $ you will make!" Not sure how true this is anymore. If there is a promotion you are seeking that requires a masters degree, that might be the right time to start toward your masters. On the other hand, if it's your dream and something that is very important to you, just do it. A genuine education is something that no one can ever take away from you.
Grad school is an umbrella term. A PhD in economics, an MBA, a JD, a CRNA, a PharmD, MD, DPT, etc, etc are all very different. They're like comparing apples and car batteries. Whether or not they are with it depends not only on the field and surrounding circumstances but also many pesonal factors. The trap is to think that education = money, the same trap that people thinking that simply having a bachelors in pretty much anything will somehow increase income has extended into the graduate realm, where people pick areas of study where the degree (financially speaking) isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
perhaps people need even more advanced study in order to understand the laws of averages...
such as: on average, in aggregate, people with college degrees earn more money over their lifetime than those who don't have a college degree...