Many conservatives seem to be of the opinion that teachers are failed professions who are taking a fall-back option.
The art of teaching requires good communication and critical thinking skills, both can easily be applied to politics.
Realty is that an education degree is one of the easiest rides in Uni.
Hard sciences, business, health care, engineering, accounting, vet school, law,and so forth, all far tougher than an education gig.
Harder to get accepted into, and then a tougher curriculum.
Truth is, its tougher to be a librarian than it is to be a teacher.
BTW my wife started out as a high school teacher.
Teachers now can make in excess of $100,000 a year in Canada depending on Province and contract.
And because it's a union gig in the public sector no merit advancement is required.
Retirement can be taken as early as 53 and averages 70% of final income.
Pension is around 70% funded by the taxpayer and around 30% funded by the teachers.
For around 9 months work a year.
And where I live the only person in the school after 3:15PM is the janitor.
Teachers are the new 1%.
They are the new multi-millionaires.
The pension alone insures of that.
In Canada ever year there are less and less young people.
Hence less and less students.
And every year there are more and more teachers.
Making ever inflated salaries.
I have no axe to grind.
I just feel the education system and teacher compensation is wildly out of control.
Unionism at its worst.
Teachers should make about half what they presently get and fund at least 50% of their own pensions.
And they should be working 12 months a year, less 3 weeks vacation.
They could, if nothing else, tutor stuggling students through the summer months and Christmas vacation periods
Its just that simple.
