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

For all those people using their offended feelings as opposed to facts as a response to my initial question, please be advised I am not condemning teachers at large.

My initial $50k example was in reference to teachers whose full-time job consists of teaching 1 or 2 classes a day and who take 3 months off every year. I’m not saying we should pay actual full-time teachers who work 8-9 hours a day less than $50k, or trying to create a wage scale for teachers nationally. That would be silly, considering wages shift by geography, experience, education, school, etc.. All I’m saying is that I think teachers undervalue the amount of time off that they get when/if they complain about their salaries – and there’s no question that some teachers like to complain about their salaries.

That being said, I think everyone should fight to earn as much as they can. But from the perspective of a potential future tuition payer, I also have a right to question the exorbitantly high tuitions in Jewish schools and seek a fair distribution of that which I will have to contribute to.