John W. wrote:
> "Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message
> news:<bei31q$5dbad$1@ID-105084.news.dfncis.de>...
>> http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33485
>
> Yep.

Nope, but feel free to tell us how much teachers should make and what the
indicators are that tell us that they are underpaid.

> "Union officials note while teachers may work shorter job hours, they
> do a lot of work outside the classroom, such as grading papers, which
> is not compensated."

Union officials note lots of silly things, like the very silly note they
make above. I wonder if they noted that teachers are not the only profession
in the world that brings their work home. Teachers, like many other workers,
are not paid based on performance. I don't know if you have ever been a
salaried worker, but they generally get paid the same regardless of how much
they work. I presume that you have at least worked hourly jobs before, so
you must know that one generally gets paid the same per hour whether one
flips 40 burgers in that hour or 80.

I hasten to add that grading papers can be done during work hours. Teachers
are not teaching in the classroom every minute they are in the school
building. Once this fact is considered, the hourly wage of a teacher jumps
up even further. I would be very surprised to learn that the average
teacher's classroom time, grading of papers, lesson planning et cetera add
up to over 40 hours a week.

Prof. Vedder's article may be found at
http://www.educationnext.org/20033/14.html

-- 
Kevin Gowen
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