PoliticalChic
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The median salary for New York City area workers was $50,820 in 2007
Median salaries for teachers appear to be $62K-70K
Why? My point was that anyone that expects to get wealthy by teaching public school is either stupid or misguided.
You say tomato, I say tomahto: The decline in educational quality coincided with the eruption of Feminist Intolerance for Wimmin being culturally relegated to teaching. Since then, any teacher, rightly or wrongly, will always defend their "professionalism." School boards feed this stupidity because it justifies their demand for "professional" labor, ie., labor that is not "hourly."
I might agree with you except that there is a large supply teachers in Texas, where organized Teacher Unions are Illegal.
Are you getting to that 3am drunk, almost agreeing with me???
I cannot abide this disgusting turn of events.
Its well past happy hour, and I'm not agreeing with you because your thesis is not universally supported: Since Teacher Unions don't exist in Texas, why would "many college enrollees look at what was formerly a difficult, yet rewarding progession and said 'why not?'."
While my circle of acquaintances have given me a certain expetise re: NYC, I have actually been surprised at some of the things you have stated about Texas.
Unions are illegal?
Chairperson is not a budgetary line, but rather a temp-stipend position. A good idea>
So I will claim only that my points are specific to the largest education precinct in the country: NYC.