righton

Did you know that teachers salaries are now posted on the internet and are now public knowledge? A new teacher straight out of school makes $35k a year. Not bad for a young kids first job. But... They only have to work 5 hours a day, and refuse to work anymore than that, for 9 months a year! They get 10 sick days that they can bank year after year, full benefits, and a pension! If you break this down, this works out to $35/hour. If you worked a proper 40 hour week all year at this rate you would earn $72,800. Now that's not bad for being right out of school!!! If you apply this same model to a teacher that has been teaching for 30 years who earns $70k a year, that's the equivalent of nearly $72 per hour! In real work hours that's like $150,000 per year! Wow!!! Not bad at all. This teachers strike is strictly about money. The are now down to a 25 hr work week for 9 months of the year, and they want more money to not give a damn about the kids education. If they actually cared for the kids education, they wouldn't make this strike about money, it would be about more support, aid, and resources for the schools and smaller classes. Instead it's just a simple act of greed because they can. They feel they are entitled because they are creating the future of our country. In my experience, they don't give a damn about the kids, they just push them through the systems regardless of their ability to get them off their plate. They don't want to put in the effort to help kids that require any extra help because that would be too much trouble and they're not paid for that... The government will never legislate them back to work for many reasons. They're too darn scared the NDP will use it against them in the next election and gain to much support for one. And if they did force them back, if you think the teachers don't care about the kids now, it would be like sending your kids into a snake pit every morning. These teachers are too stupid to realize how good they have it, so this will never change.