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I Think Teachers Deserve More Money

I feel that better and experienced teachers would be hired if schools paid teachers a lot more to teach. There wouldn't be as many teachers who don't care about their work or their students in classrooms.
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TexChik · F
Education has notoriously been the easiest degree on campus and the lowest paid profession . People understand that going in . Many change to education from engineering, premed , pre law , etc because they are failing those courses and don't want their parents to jerk them out of school.. so they tell mom and dad that they really want to teach , mainly because they can still get into that program with a bad GPA. Then once they graduate , and do their student teaching ... they get a job offer and they sign a contract with a school district that clearly outlines their salary structure . After all of that ... it seems ridiculous for people to complain about teacher's salaries .

Certainly not ALL TEACHERS start like this , but a majority do