Teahcer's Salary

[Cerveza]

The dinner guests were sitting around the table discussing life. One man, a CEO, decided to explain the problem with education. He argued: "What's a kid going to learn from someone who decided his best option in life was to become a teacher?"
         
He reminded the other dinner guests that it's true what they say about teachers:  "Those who can...do. Those who can't ... teach."

To corroborate, he said to another guest: "You're a teacher, Susan," he said.  "Be honest. What do you make?"
   
Susan, who had a reputation of honesty and frankness, replied, "You want to know what I make?"

I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could.
 
I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor and an A- feel like a slap in the face if the student did not do his or her very best."
 
"I can make kids sit through 40 minutes of study hall in absolute silence."

"I can make parents tremble in fear when I call home"

"You want to know what I make?"

"I make kids wonder."

"I make them question."

"I make them criticize."

"I make them apologize and mean it."

"I make them write."

"I make them read, read, read."

"I make them spell definitely beautiful, definitely beautiful, and definitely beautiful over and  over and over again, until they will never misspell either one of those words again."

"I make them show all their work in math and hide it all on their final drafts in English."

"I make them understand that if you have the brains, then follow your heart...and if someone  ever tries to judge you by what you make, you pay them no attention!"

"You want to know what I make?"

"I make a difference."

[Goliath]

I is odd to classify this as a joke considering it is so true.

[gimlet]

But unfortunately she starves to death while doing it!

[Canuker]

I was listening to the BBC driving around a few months back(XM) while there was a teacher strike in the U.K., they we upset because the pension scheme was being reformed.

At first I was sorta like tough luck with a government funded pension and all that till they went into the years of service(40+) to get a $10,000.00 pound (15K usd or so) a year pension...I was stunned.  I don't think I'd get out of bed with that as my end goal.

[Paulonius]

This conjures the image of having an angry woman spitting mad two inches from your nose -- something I generally try to avoid. 

[Crome969]

[gimlet]

This conjures the image of having an angry woman spitting mad two inches from your nose -- something I generally try to avoid. 

hehehehe - sounds like this has happened to you more than once!

[MeWonUo]

Teacher's are underpaid all over the world, and quite frankly, it's disgusting.

Thanks for posting that up.  Some good points in there.