Teachers are also drawing the short end of the stick when it comes to equal salary despite the difficulty of the job. For example, “a teacher in a downtown tough high school will make relatively the same as a teacher in a nice suburban neighborhood” (Jr. C. F., 2005). It is not unusual that teachers receive cuts in pay, or salary freezes due to budget cuts from the state level. These cuts in salaries can cause great stress to the teachers that they affect. “Teachers all over, however, have to deal with the same headaches that come with the profession, such as unruly students, angry parents, and the constant need to be reeducated in the subject that they are teaching” (Carson, 2016). As you can see teachers’ jobs are much more difficult than first realized and they should be compensated. This problem is compounded when it comes to rural school districts. Since these small schools are receiving such little funding due to their enrollment numbers, they are unable to pay their teachers what their counterpart makes in a large city. Since teachers in large cities have low pay to begin with, it is basically giving our rural school teachers nothing. When an open position emerges in small schools as well they find it difficult to fill these due to the low amount of pay that they are able to offer. In all actuality, …show more content…
They also show blatant disrespect causing other students in the class to undermine the teacher. A cause of unruly behavior can stem from the fact that our society is based off of entertainment. With everything accessible at your fingertips, students can become easily bored with the lesson or lecture. The constant need for mental stimulation is something that plagues society. This is a relatively new epidemic that was not an issue 20 years ago when our parents went to school. Competing with this epidemic is an everyday challenge that teachers must deal
Barber calls the reader 's attention to the low salary of teachers and how their wages need to rise. Although many people know about the salary issue for teachers, they often overlook
The first reason I agree with Matthew Miller’s “A Deal for Teachers”, is that something needs to be done about good teachers not being treated or paid right. I know many (in my opinion) great and intelligent teachers. They are working hard all the time to teach children everything they need to know. Meanwhile, they are getting paid the same as their coworkers who are doing nothing. In poor schools this might be even more important. In some cases, school might be the only place some children are getting taught important life skills, and their teachers might be the only good examples they have. I know a teacher who works in a poorer school. She’s told me about how hard it is to work at a poor school in general, with a lot of children who don’t respect teachers or adults and parents that also don’t respect the teachers. Couple that with low income and awful coworkers. If we keep giving our good teachers reason to leave by not treating them fairly, then we will never fix the problem of having so many bad teachers in our
Can you imagine having a job for nine months out of the year that makes you work from 8:15 AM until 3:30 PM on every weekday and not getting paid for all of your hard, tedious work? To most of you that sounds ridiculous. That’s because it is. Students have to go through this painful process from September to May and usually don’t have anything to show for it. They dedicate their whole lives to getting all A’s on their report card and when they finally do all they usually get is a pat on the back. Thus, students should get paid for having good grades because it takes lots of hard work to get those grades, it would cause more students to strive for good grades, and it would eliminate the need for a job, which would allow for more studying time.
Taylor Mali, an American slam poet and teacher, wrote a poem titled, “What Teachers Make”. In this poem, he rhythmically tells about other professions criticizing teachers based on their choice of occupation. While teachers will never earn six figure incomes, they make a difference. Teachers dedicate their lives to leading, inspiring, and educating future generations, all while earning meager pay. Though teachers form foundation of education, their pay does not accurately represent their skills. Using merit pay systems will properly assess how much a teacher should be paid, based on their teaching ability.
This too follows the capitalism argument that there has to be a benefit to attract a person to a job. In the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Henninger interviewed the Director of Education of a school in Arkansas that adopted a pay for performance program. At his offices in the capitol building, Director James calls himself an "advocate of pay for performance" for a couple of reasons. Financial incentives of some sort are needed, he says, to stop math and science teachers from jumping ship to industry. And school districts like Little Rock 's have to innovate fast because jobs and population are migrating internally, mostly into northwestern Arkansas. The Springdale district alone, he says, near Fayetteville and Bentonville, "hired 180 new teachers this year." Little Rock has to find a way to hold its best teachers (Henninger, 2005). This is another economic concept that is a key to capitalism. The logic is the more pay that is offered, the better the job applicants. This is also a basic concept in supply and demand. Henninger 's article continues with showing how happy the teachers were at the school. They were able to earn up to an extra $8600 for a total of $134,800. Some of the money was put into a general school pool and shared by support staff with include the custodians and cafeteria staff (Henninger, 2005). It would seem that Arkansas has
Salary schedules for public school teachers are almost a common feature in public school districts. These schedules largely determine the salaries for the teachers. A single district schedule sets the pay for hundreds of thousands of teachers in thousands of schools (Besharov 1). The key factor that influences the pay for the teachers in the salary schedules include experience in terms of years and the total number of graduate course works that a teacher has completed. This paper will look at the cons and pros of the salary schedules in terms of an economic point of view.
1.2 million students drop out if school every year or 7,000 every day or one student every 26 seconds. That’s almost the population of New Hampshire dropping out of school but that’s only in one year. Kids should be paid to have good grades at school, in low-income households. Some people will argue where will we get the money from to pay the kids.
Why do baseball players, who play sports that were invented for fun, earn a 1,000 times more than teachers who work to teach and guide our youth to be successful citizens? Jobs like school teacher, police officer, doctor, firefighter, and construction worker - all who perform duties that we can’t live without - are paid considerably less than professional athletes, nationally acclaimed entertainers, and actors. Teachers hold a major role in the educational system and without them most people would not be able to function properly in life. Why is it that teachers are paid less than professional athletes? Educators deserve a more comparable salary than they receive because they are beneficial to life, make people successful, and help people grow.
Did you know that getting money was really easy. Guess what we have had this happening for years. It is where kids are getting paid for their amazing grades. Do you think that students should get paid for their good grades? Did you know that every year thousands of dollars are given to kids for their good grades.
Because of these obstacles, job performance may be suffering as well. According to a journal entry in Teacher and Teacher Education, many factors predict job satisfaction, including the intrinsic reward of teaching, the extrinsic factors to school, and most importantly, the school-based factors. Equity theory believes that people look at the work by comparing it to their work inputs, work outcomes, and to their co-worker’s inputs and outcomes, as well. When a teacher is dealing with disruptive students, constantly grading papers and tests, having conferences with parents, and spending their summer vacation preparing for the following school semester, it seems like they would be greatly appreciated. Instead, they are discounted for the many services they give, which is not an equal input-outcome ratio.
Somehow there doesn’t seem to be enough money to give teachers even a cost of living raise. Since I have moved to North Carolina I have not had a raise. My salary is the same as it was 5 years ago. I have 8 years of teaching experience, however, I am getting paid as if I only have 3 years of experience. Now let me clarify, I did not become a teacher to make a lot of money, I became a teacher because I love children and I love to teach! I also became a teacher because I knew it would be a great job to have as a mother. I would be on the same schedule as my children and I would be able to help th...
One reason is that problems and stresses at home are impact students and they to act out in class; divorcing parents influence students behavior and they can act out in class as a way to deal with their fear and frustration ( Harris, 2016). Another reason is that students who are impact by their peers are also have issues in the classroom ( Harris, 2016). That last reason is that students with learning disabilities can be disruptive in class; many of them are on medication that helps them focus. And sometimes they forget their medicine and act out in class on those days ( Harris,
Strauss, Valerie. "Why teachers’ salaries should be doubled now." The Washington Post. N.p., 25 Mar. 2014. Web. 5 Apr. 2014. .
Some states want to have separation when it comes to the income of these schools. States argue that high class, wealthy, school districts should have more money than the lower class districts, because of the tax payers wants or because there are better opportunities for students to grow in the wealthier areas. According to the U.S. Department of Education, more than 50 percent of lower end schools are not receiving the amount of money they should get from the state funds (U.S. Department of Education). This is what is preventing school districts in these areas from helping students with their education. The schools are forced to cut back on programs such as extracurricular activities that are suppose to encourage students to be active, or they would have to cut back on supplies where in some cases there are not enough textbooks for each student to have his or her own. The U.S. Department of Education also stated that teachers that are less paid and have less years teaching are often the ones dealing with the students in poverty. (U.S. Department of Education). This only prolongs the problem with children receiving the proper education. If they are taught by teachers who don’t know what they are teaching or those who don’t have enough experience, then the students are not going to learn the correct information or any information at all. While there are some schools
The amount of thought, motivation, respect, effort, and consideration a teacher puts into his or her students is not reflected in their paycheck. But, I don’t mean that solely in terms of money. Teachers are not paid with respect either When it comes to comparing prestigious jobs, teachers sit fairly low on the list. Their salaries are joked about with disregard to how much of their paycheck goes back to funding projects for their students. A teacher’s salary is humble, it reflects the humbleness that being a teacher entails. Teachers do not yearn for fortune or fame though, they desire to give rather than receive. In return for their efforts, teachers do not retain as much kindness as they dish out. If only every complaining, biligerent, misbehaving student and parent would have to be a teacher for a day, then maybe teachers would receive the credit they so rightfully deserve. Every student should go through the process of lesson planning, being talked back and complained to, and called boring, until he or she realizes that teaching is one of the most challenging jobs in the