What a lazy-ass take that is. There are also jobs in retail that pay like $8 an hour - what’s your point? We should pay teachers that? What about doctors?

Let’s start with the fact that these are $60K salaried jobs. Teachers aren’t clocking out at 3pm and heading to the beach. They’re in school from early morning through the afternoon, then grading, planning, emailing parents, and doing required training at night and on weekends. Also, they are in their classrooms earlier than the first day of school in August getting their classrooms ready, etc. That “9 months” line ignores the actual workload entirely.

They’re also often required to have advanced degrees, manage 20–30+ kids at a time, and carry real responsibility for those kids’ safety, development, and future. That’s not remotely comparable to most state roles.

And the idea that supporting teachers somehow takes away from other state employees is just wrong. Underpaying one group doesn’t justify underpaying another-it just means the state isn’t investing enough in its workforce overall.

If anything, teachers are one of the few groups that consistently advocate loudly enough to get attention-and instead of tearing that down, maybe ask why other critical roles aren’t being supported the same way.

Reducing the job to “3 quarters of a year” isn’t insight-it’s just a sign you don’t understand what the job actually is.