why do your teacher want more money from her job.?

Answer 1

Doesn't everyone want more money from their job? Why should teachers be different?

Answer 2

In Ohio, a starting teacher salary can be as low as $20,000. That's with a master's degree (5 years of college). The teacher doesn't work just from 8-3. Most teachers have to work additional hours to grade, prepare lessons, and school mandated activities.

Summer is spent preparing the classroom for the next year. Teachers must take a required number of classes to maintain their teaching credentials and many schools do not reimburse anything for this.

Let's see
College - 5 years = $20-60,000
Required courses = $200+ / credit hour so usually $5-6000
Supplies for class = $1000
Lunches $3 X 180 = approx $500

Most starting teachers are lucky to bring make 2000-2500 (before taxes)/month. If you figure that expenses are:
College loan repayment $100
Lunch $75
Transportation $100
Supplies $50
Clothing $50
Rent / Utilities $600
Car payment $350
Professional Development $100
Taxes/retirement/Insurance 500.00
I'm sure I didn't mention some of the expenses. How is a beginning teacher supposed to live on $20,000/year?

Answer 3

Perhaps she wants to be paid more because it is so hard to teach people how to write. There are three glaring errors in your question, and normally I overlook writing gaffes, but in view of the the nature of the question, I cannot. A better sentence might read, "Why do teachers want higher wages?"

Now I'll be honest; I don't know. Most of the teachers I know are reasonably well paid and not complaining about their wages. The complaints I do hear concern such issues as a lack of support from the parents they teach and from the communities that they serve; inadequate supplies and outdated textbooks; and standardized testing that absorbs so much classroom intruction time that there is none left to teach beyond the basics.

Answer 4

Well three of my friends are teachers and after hearing the horror stories they tell me about student every day I dont blame them for wanting more money.

Kevin works at a city school (ghetto school) he has had a knife thrown at him, someone shooting paper balls on fire into the classroom, threatened by gang members....the worst part is that the teacher can not touch the students or there will be lawsuits filed against them and the school for abusing the children....he eventually quit there and went to work for a private school where they are allowed to beat the shizit out of students if they feel in danger

Answer 5

Your grammar teacher might not deserve an extra stipend, judging from your poor sentence structure! However, teachers are notoriously underpaid when one considers the uncompensated overtime for grading, attending professional development courses, supplies personally purchased (only $250 can be deducted from one's income tax), etc., etc. The argument that we only work 9 months (actually it's ten in the state of TX) of the year is ridiculous, as our annual salary for those 9-10 months is actually divided into 12-month increments. SOME school districts will compensate for an advanced degree (Master's or Doctorate), but that's not enough to cover tuition spent to attain that degree. During those summer months, we are "leisurely" attending college classes required by our school districts, professional development programs and workshops created by our districts or studying for the state-mandated tests that we are required to pass to keep our "lifetime" teaching license current!

Answer 6

Teachers have to put with a lot all day and can't do anything about it without fear of loosing their jobs plus they had to go to college so I admire teachers and if I were dishing out the pay they would be paid way more than what they are now.

Answer 7

Judging from your question, my teacher wants more money from her job to teach you how to use proper grammar.

Actually, everyone wants to earn more money, especially teachers. They have many responsibilities which include record keeping, tutoring, motivating, etc. I was a former teacher. I didn't earn very much and I worked very hard. So, if teachers can get more money, more power to them!

Answer 8

Probably because everybody else likes more money.
But in reality teachers, educators, education specialists are professionals.
The time they spend in the classroom is only 65 o/o of the total time they spend outside the classroom with the students, parents, counselors, supervisors, union reps, papers correcting, preparing lesson plans, researching, going to college, writing official reports, calling parents, advising parents, being moms and dads to some less fortunate...
If you are thinking in becoming a teacher, you must love to serve, and not to expect real appreciation.

Answer 9

Well, obviously yours shouldn't get any more, but the theory is that offering better pay will attract more talented teachers. That will result in more grammatically correct questions and answers on this site, making it more useful for visitors and the ads better targeted to make more money for the advertisers and yahoo. Win win win. :)

Answer 10

I wonder that sometimes too -- Maybe because there are soooooooo many bratty @$$ kids these days that aren't disaplined & need to be taught respect. But if they don't like the pay so much then why did they get a teaching degree.

I would do it -- Weekends/holidays off, SUMMER VACATION!!! What other job offers that?!?!?!?!