Teacher strikes

[CW&M Mom]

So should someone w/ a degree and little to no experience should get more than an experienced good employee w/o a degree simply because they have student loans to pay for? Maybe they received grants or scholarships… maybe mom and dad paid for college… maybe they need to accept that to get somewhere in life they need to work hard and prove themselves and accept that you work from the bottom up…..

I never said a teacher’s job isn’t hard.

I also never said $12/hr was okay or not okay. I said a degree shouldn’t instantly entitle you to a high salary.

I’m not sure I understand what you are getting at in your last part about crap wages/jobs. There are crap wages paid for hard work (we all read the waitress thread, right?)

A degree should be able to help you acquire a job that will afford your students loans you incurred getting said degree.

She couldn't even move out of my parents house on that much of a wage. Not to mention how much of that wage ended up going right back into her room.

If I was going to aim at an amount. I personally would not put that much work, that much of my time and that much of my money into a degree that didn't at least start in the 40K ish range.

I could work a job with no education needed...and get up to $12 an hour rather fast...and be off better because I didn't have tons of student loan debt.

This is actually one of the problems our country is facing currently...is kids are graduating from high school..and seeing such a bleak job market....they are choosing to just forgo going to school. If all your gonna be able to get is a $12 an hour job...might as well do it without debt in the process.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/yo...dent.html?_r=1

there was a more recent article...but this is the one I could find quickly.

It cannot possibly be better for our country long term...to have more and more choose not to go and get a degree. We should not reward hard work/4 plus years of there time/ and student loans they can't pay on with a wage that won't even pay there basic necessities and student loans.

[CW&M Mom]

As for the crap wages. There is a big difference in paying someone a crap wage...for work that does not involve needing a degree vs someone that does.

Waitress vs School teacher is both hard work. The Waitress doesn't have to go to school for 4 plus years, student teach, get said degree, pay for said degree and then hand some of her income to her customers because they need forks and spoons to eat from.