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Teachers deserve more credit than given
Alex Sanders
Issue date: 10/14/08 Section: Commentary
On average, a college professor will make approximately $37,197 in his first year on the job, while the average plastic surgeon will make about $123,151 in his first year on the job, according to PayScale.com.
Teachers have an enormous responsibility. They provide insight, alternative perspectives and practically hand students the future. In contrast, plastic surgeons can provide reconstructive surgery, but the overall demand calls mostly for superficial alterations to the body. While one career pays significantly more, it affects the general population less, assuming that more people attend school than choose to get plastic surgery. The qualifications are different as well as the risk to people's lives, but the gain to people's lives is different too. Teaching affects every life, some more than others, but there is no denying that teachers help sculpt people's thinking and possibly behavior. Teachers' salaries should be up there with doctors' and lawyers' salaries.
They have the ability to impact peoples' lives and change their futures. Finally, a school in New York is paying teachers the salaries they deserve. According to The New York Times, The Equity Project Charter School will open in September 2009 in Manhattan's Washington Heights community for the purpose of helping middle school students at risk of academic failure and it will pay teachers $125,000 as a starting salary.
The school is paying teachers that much in the name of good education. The more money that schools offer, the pickier they can be about hiring competent teachers. Schools everywhere should start raising the bar for education, paying teachers more and hiring capable, knowledgeable teachers.
Aside from parents, teachers contribute to peoples' lives more than anyone in any other profession. It is about time that they start getting compensated for the duty they pay to society. Also, society will value teachers more if they are held to higher esteem.
The education system should be reformed in general to allow for a higher salary for teachers. If teachers received higher salaries, they would likely be more dedicated to their job. In the teaching profession, due to the low salary, there is generally an intrinsic desire to teach. A higher salary will provide more extrinsic rewards, which will hopefully encourage teachers to do things like stay after school longer and help students in need or hold more office hours if they teach in a college setting.
Teachers have an enormous responsibility. They provide insight, alternative perspectives and practically hand students the future. In contrast, plastic surgeons can provide reconstructive surgery, but the overall demand calls mostly for superficial alterations to the body. While one career pays significantly more, it affects the general population less, assuming that more people attend school than choose to get plastic surgery. The qualifications are different as well as the risk to people's lives, but the gain to people's lives is different too. Teaching affects every life, some more than others, but there is no denying that teachers help sculpt people's thinking and possibly behavior. Teachers' salaries should be up there with doctors' and lawyers' salaries.
They have the ability to impact peoples' lives and change their futures. Finally, a school in New York is paying teachers the salaries they deserve. According to The New York Times, The Equity Project Charter School will open in September 2009 in Manhattan's Washington Heights community for the purpose of helping middle school students at risk of academic failure and it will pay teachers $125,000 as a starting salary.
The school is paying teachers that much in the name of good education. The more money that schools offer, the pickier they can be about hiring competent teachers. Schools everywhere should start raising the bar for education, paying teachers more and hiring capable, knowledgeable teachers.
Aside from parents, teachers contribute to peoples' lives more than anyone in any other profession. It is about time that they start getting compensated for the duty they pay to society. Also, society will value teachers more if they are held to higher esteem.
The education system should be reformed in general to allow for a higher salary for teachers. If teachers received higher salaries, they would likely be more dedicated to their job. In the teaching profession, due to the low salary, there is generally an intrinsic desire to teach. A higher salary will provide more extrinsic rewards, which will hopefully encourage teachers to do things like stay after school longer and help students in need or hold more office hours if they teach in a college setting.
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posted 11/16/09 @ 10:00 PM EST
SOOOO TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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