On the inside The American Federation of Teachers show average teacher pay at $47,602 a year. I am sure that some pay is worse and some pay is better. I also imagine that, just like nurses, those who go into teaching ARE WELL AWARE OF WHAT THEY ARE GETTING INTO! I’m sick to death of sob stories of how hard teaching is. Does anyone wonder about the KIDS in the classroom who are also putting up with the same BS the teacher is? If the classroom is that difficult for adults to tolerate what about the kids that are forced to endure the same situation? Do they matter? Quit coddling the problem children as well as their parents and just maybe things will change.
In an earlier post I identified myself as a nurse, I too have had people pee in the corner, I’ve also had people pee on me, and frankly that’s fairly mild. But I think it should be stressed that I knew when I went into nursing that I would be dealing with all sorts of bodily fluids, that working weekends and holidays is a part of the job, as well as dealing with adults that are as much buttheads as the parents and kids you have described above, not to mention the buttheads physicians we get to deal with at times, and so on. I can tell stories after 20 years of nursing that would curl your hair or at the other end of things, sicken your stomach. For most nurses top of the wage scale is about $55,000 a year. In general you have to work 15 years to get there. Tell me how different that is from teachers, fireman or policemen.
But whose whining all the time? Who uses your kids as a whip? And I guarantee that if nurses had as bad an outcome as many teachers do they would get fired, but just try to fire a teacher. They get to be so special that they don’t have to worry about being good or not. No one should be that special. Not even the hallowed teacher who obviously can do what no one else can do.
Give me an effing break.
