Who should be paid more money?

[LouZ]

Wellardmac wrote:

I was leaving the gym last week and heard two teachers whining in the parking lot about their workload for marking and I wanted to tell them to get a life and join the real world. Sorry, but I have little patience. I know of several people who have left industry after getting burned out and gone into teaching and their reports are that it's an easy life compared to the workload and stress level that we in the productive world deal with on a daily basis.

Oh, the whining of the misinformed! Did you walk the walk before you talk the talk?

Along with Art, my wife was a teacher prior to her disability. She had a Master's +30 credits, which puts her mighty close to a PhD. I believe that you are in some technical field, well, she was an A.P. chemistry teacher (how was your Organics, DiffyQ and PChem?). "Workload for Marking".....ever have to prepare 3 separate tests weekly, then run labs, followed by reading, evaluating and marking the reports WEEKLY?

I have first hand personal experience in whining about the workload after class was over for the day. During her last few months of classes, prior to "retiring" (full disability), I had to pick up the slack and help her every night and weekend because all of the "marking" had to be turned around in reasonable time.

And I don't buy the uninformed person's trite response...Oh, she's one of the exceptions! I'm a professional (limited to doctors, lawyers, engineers and teachers in the true sense of the word) and I don't put in as much time, have the stress, or have to put up with the wisea$$es that occupy the seats of our schools, nor Mommy and Daddy that think that they are superior to the teacher and that their child is always right.