But they get golden health care, pension, and early retirement. Good for them. This is why teachers aren’t suckers as the OP suggested. They’re in on a great scam. Good for them.
The sucker working retail could only dream.
No, it's full-time seasonal work.
> The sucker working retail could only dream.
Retail generally doesn't require a four-year degree, plus a post-graduate credential as a basic qualification. Compared to professions that do, schoolteachers pay and benefits are between unremarkable and substandard.
They have public sector unions that negotiate their compensation. I don’t think it’s teachers that are being bullied here.
Let's not; considering it doesn't make their total pay and benefita particularly good for the entry requirements, though it makes it somewhat less bad, leaving them only 11.1 percent behind comparable professions instead of 18.7 percent considering pay alone, as of 2017.
Many already have, as the local and state governments that control these pensions and benefits are constantly changing.
Except your calculations support exactly what I said.
> It’s 3 months off.
Yes, it's typically 3 months off if they don't work summer session in a traditional schedule.
Which most who are able to (there are reduced available positions) do.
Hence, the full-time but, for some, 3/4-year seasonal full-time that I stated.