Michigan Votes Forum

If 100% of our student's parents supported their child's education at home and at school imagine what we could do! I love what I do, and would not do anything different. It's just hard to see our new young educators starting out with the same wage as unskilled laborers, when they have had 5 years of college, and will have the costs of continuing

By "other lines of work", do you mean servers at McDonalds? Customer service representatives? Unskilled laborers? Yes, I guess we do. But I have a master's degree in education, and I know there are many other professionals, that have had fewer years of higher education that make MUCH more than teachers. I'd like to have apples compared

After 27 years of teaching, I have a friend that works stocking shelves in a factory for the same amount of years and makes the same amount as I do (more with overtime)! How can you dare call our wages "outrageous". I'm sure you were exaggerating to make a point, but I think my initial education, and continuing education should be compensated