Even someone taught by low quality teachers knows that there are 12 months in a year. If you don’t work 3 of them....by definition you only work 9 months a year. Just about all salaried people work more than their prescribed hours. Several people have already pointed this out to you. You look foolish continually repeating it.
I can help you out with the compensation structure with pharmaceuticals and engineers and a lot of other industries. On the sales side; they work on Commissions, and the best ones sell a boat load and live like kings (and rightfully so, you eat what you kill) and the ones that can’t sell either live a shitty economical life or find a different job/career path. And on the home office side, people have a lower base salary and there is a bonus pool to be allocated. The top performers get the larger bonuses and live rather well economically and the low performers get smaller bonuses and A. Improve their performance to get a higher allocation the next time around B. Live on the crumbs they receive or C. Find a new career. The reason most people think they understand the compensation structure of a teacher is because it is very simple. The best math or science teacher receives the same pay as the worst physical education teacher and the next year it will be the same. Do you know why that is the structure? Because that is the structure the teachers and their union want.
In the past several years most people’s health insurance increased more than their pay. Do you think that is unique to teachers?
I would start a grass roots effort and ask that your taxes be tripled and a portion of it go towards increasing teacher pay. If you want teacher pay to be on par with the rest of the country, have your taxes be on par to cover it.
I tried to help a fellow northern panhandleer from making himself look like a fool, but continue on if you wish.
