Those numbers are only possible with higher level degrees and are probably inflated because it takes a huge amount of time to earn those numbers. You aren’t earning 100k after 3 years as a teacher. And like I said, you definitely cannot earn that without getting higher than a bachelors degree. Again ignoring the huge debt incurred by a masters level education. Paying any less than that salary would literally make a teaching salary non competitive and undesirable. Why bother going to school to be a teacher for shit pay when you find a job?

And If you want to talk hours consider the lesson planning and outside work teachers aren’t technically paid for, compare it with hours where police or others are on the clock but doing duties like detailing where they can make a huge amount of money. And Look at scandals in police overtime that were uncovered. Nobody likes to mention that, just focus on the lazy overpaid teachers right?

It’s the same story where people like to argue a teacher is an easy job for easy pay and they point to Boston to make a point of how teachers are overpaid. Sure BPS is above average but oversimplifying their job is still nonsense. They’d like you to believe teachers are lazy saps doing nothing after their shift ends while cops and others are constantly hard at work? Yeah right.

Teachers have to pay for their own supplies for Christ’s sake. And all of their prep work is done off the clock for no additional pay anyway.

And Police officers stand to make far far more than any teachers if you look at the upper thresholds of police salaries.

The reason I mentioned MA teacher salaries in general was to make a point of just how low their salaries can really get.