Reply To: Should teachers/rebbis get a full time salary?

Syag – I don’t believe that not being part of a demographic invalidates my opinion about matters related to a demographic. Just because I’m not pregnant, doesn’t mean I can’t have an opinion about abortion. Just because I’m not a fatherless, black inner-city kid, doesn’t mean I can’t have an opinion about fatherlessness in the black community. Just because I don’t have child in a Jewish school, doesn’t mean I can’t have an opinion about Jewish school teachers’ well known attitudes regarding their salaries.

And again, I’ve never said $50k/annually is too high. I think teachers ignore the perk that they get to go home early every y and only work 3/4 of the year when they complain – and many teachers do complain. The only valid answer I’ve heard so far is that they have take-home work, but I’m not convinced most teachers do. A lot of schools have established curriculums and the teachers repeat the same material every year, so after the first couple years it gets easier.