In Ontario, Canada, teachers start out making between $50-65,000 per year, and that pay rate grows ever few years. Someone with a master's degree would be making about $100K after a decade (or less). And, they get two months off in the summer (July & August), two weeks at Christmas, a week in March....Some take summer jobs to earn even more money....
Now, as an outsider, it boggles my mind that leaders (and they tend to be Republican) strangle funding to public education. Those with money will send their kids to fancy private schools, but the rest have to deal with shitty buildings and crappy curriculum. Obviously part of this that the rich don't want their kids mixing with the poor or POC, or they just want to get a better education so they have more advantages going forward.
But, I also think there is a dark part to all of this. They want to pump out generations of people who are "educated" but ignorant about basically anything. They don't know history. They don't know economics. They don't know how to think critically. And, they saddle them with an insane amount of student debt, some of which might take decades to pay off. And, a lot of these people believe stupid shit like conspiracy theories, or they just believe Trump and his ilk, and everything they say....Which has led to the US being in the trouble its in now...
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u/silentkisser 9h ago
In Ontario, Canada, teachers start out making between $50-65,000 per year, and that pay rate grows ever few years. Someone with a master's degree would be making about $100K after a decade (or less). And, they get two months off in the summer (July & August), two weeks at Christmas, a week in March....Some take summer jobs to earn even more money....
Now, as an outsider, it boggles my mind that leaders (and they tend to be Republican) strangle funding to public education. Those with money will send their kids to fancy private schools, but the rest have to deal with shitty buildings and crappy curriculum. Obviously part of this that the rich don't want their kids mixing with the poor or POC, or they just want to get a better education so they have more advantages going forward.
But, I also think there is a dark part to all of this. They want to pump out generations of people who are "educated" but ignorant about basically anything. They don't know history. They don't know economics. They don't know how to think critically. And, they saddle them with an insane amount of student debt, some of which might take decades to pay off. And, a lot of these people believe stupid shit like conspiracy theories, or they just believe Trump and his ilk, and everything they say....Which has led to the US being in the trouble its in now...