- Teachers can claim deduction of up to $250 in personal expenses for school materials. For perspective, millionaires can write off the operation of their private jets.
2. Teachers spend personal funds for school supplies for student’s whose families can’t provide their child that support.
3. A teacher’s 9-month salary is spread over 12 months – monthly income not what you or I would figure.
4. The school year is 9 months, but three months during summer isn’t a teacher’s vacation time – They secure a second job, many even a third job as well to make ends meet. All too often public attitude is that teachers have it soft with a full summer doing nothing
5. Teachers receive no overtime for grading papers or developing lesson plans until 10:00 P.M. many evenings.
6. Teaches serve supervision time at after school sporting events, school dances, and parent-teacher conferences, usually without compensation.
7. Teachers also serve as social worker during a child’s family crisis, counselor to the student with personal problems, provide snacks for kids who miss breakfast, fill in for mom or dad until mom or dad can come to school, none of which is remunerated, none of which are in their job description.
8. Teachers are all too often made the butt of all problems in public education: the fault of a child’s failure to learn, the cause of a school’s accreditation problems, and the reason a school district’s budget is inadequate (a school district’s budget is about 90% personnel salaries).
CONSIDER THIS THE NEXT TIME YOU HAVE BAD THOUGHTS ABOUT YOUR CHILD’S TEACHERS…
Journeys of a Bent Mind 