Teachers at the Coffee Table

Avigail David · Jul 8, 2015

Ken Anderson said: ↑

I can't speak for your state but, in Maine, they also generate a general feeling among the public that teachers are underpaid. Perhaps that was the case at one time, but that time was quite some time ago, I think. Probably a larger percentage of people would say that teachers are underpaid, but they haven't actually looked at the salaries and benefits. I live in a mill town, where the mill has closed after several years of lay-offs and temporary closures. We have been laying off police officers, we've closed the trash transfer station every day of the week but three, our town hall staff has been reduced by fifty percent, and there is talk of closing the library, yet the school budget goes up every year, this despite the fact that, since no one can find work here anymore, families young enough to have children are moving, so the student population has been declining. After hearing this nonsense about teachers being underpaid, I posted the salaries and benefits for everyone employed by the school system online, and people could see that they were earning far more than nearly anyone else in town, during the better years, and had a benefits program that couldn't be beat. Plus, when teachers had enough years in to retire, they could take their retirement program and then be hired back by the school system, earning both a retirement package plus a regular salary. There may be places in the country where teachers are truly underpaid but I believe that in most parts of the country, people would be surprised to learn how well their teachers were actually doing, particularly when you consider the benefits and retirement packages that are now pretty much unheard of in the private sector.
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I'm glad to know that teachers are being well compensated for within the education system. But It's not right to propagate that they are underpaid.

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