teachers, should they have higher pay? Options

[kantoaznboi]

i believe that teachers are one the most underpaid jobs. if you honestly think, where would all the doctors be, or the surgeons be if there were no teachers? Teachers are one of the most important jobs u can have, so y do they have such low wages.

wat do u think bout this topic?

[abstracted]

I think teachers should be paid more.

I kept reading this question: what about the bad teachers?
Well, come on. You get people in every profession who are horrible. Just today I had to deal with a orthodontist who screwed up several of her patients' crowns (including mine). You can't avoid this. It sucks, but there'll be bad teachers, and I had/have my fair share of them.

There's the simple argument: without teachers, there's no one to build a better labor force.

My mom is a teacher. Her working hours go beyond the literal 8 to 4 each day. There's grading, school meetings, and planning--LOTS of planning. And stress. Plus, it's practically a high school drama among her coworkers at her elementary school. There's one teacher who randomly yelled at my mom for ten minutes, putting her to tears, about something she had nothing to do with. You get the bad bosses too. Or, worse, your team leader requires you to put in extra hours that you don't need, spend some of your salary on silly little gifts that cost more than they should for all teachers of one grade who don't give a damn about you, or make up OCD systems...anything.
My point--teaching is NOT an easy job. Yet, they get paid comparatively little.

About the athletes and singers...I agree that they get paid more than they should. Yes, they worked very hard to get to their level of skill, but they're job is to entertain! Without them, society would still function, even if it ends up being boring. They play games, they sing, they dance, whatever--isn't that what you do for fun? Because they're especially good at it, they get paid a lot. They use that money to look the way they want, buy the clothes they want, etc., so that more people like them. Then, when they're rich, they have the excess money to give to charities and such, and then the media goes on to say how they're wonderful people who helped so much.
Um, not to say that they aren't wonderful or that they don't deserve the fame, but they had the money to do it. I bet it didn't pinch their pockets. I give, but it costs me more to give the same amount of money or time than it costs that rich singer.

Teachers do wonderful deeds of giving as well, but just because it doesn't involve donating half a million to some major fundraiser, they don't get the appreciation. They teach us. They could suck like those teachers who are horrible, and they could just put on educational videos and hand out busywork. But for those teachers who really do teach--and I've had my fair share of brilliant teachers--they deserve more. But they don't get it.