Quote Originally Posted by Halyanne View Post
I think this is where people have a whacked out thinking. Teachers make far less for the AMOUNT of education they have to have to get a teaching job comparable to someone in a different profession with the same amount of education.

Teachers would like to have a comparable salary as their peers. Most teachers, I believe, have a Bachelors Degree as well as a Masters. What sort of salary does someone in a different profession with the same degrees?

Engineers: http://work.chron.com/much-engineer-...ear-28845.html

Finance: https://www.degreequery.com/salary-c...inance-degree/

Science degrees are also quite high.

Not everyone, obviously, makes this kind of money. There is at least a $30-50k difference.

Teachers just want to have a market related salary comparable to the amount of education they have to have to do their jobs.
Now look at people with Bachelors/Masters degrees in History, Art, Literature, or the other not-exceptionally-profitable majors.

I mean, it's a running gag on the internet (and other places) that having a degree in English qualifies you to be a barista at Starbucks.

Teachers KNOW going in what their salary is going to be. I've heard it countless times that people who go into teaching don't do so for the money. They know teachers are underpaid. Now, if they get promised a 5% raise, and they are not given that 5% raise, then they have every right to demand, via protest if necessary, what they were promised, so don't think I am against their strike. But almost all of us have had jobs that we know don't pay as much, but we enjoyed. And most of us have had jobs we didn't enjoy, but paid well.

Citing that an engineer gets paid more than a teacher (unless that teacher is a grad school engineering professor) is just comparing Apples to Elephants.