BC Students Walk Out on Friday to Show Support for Teachers

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A 40-50h week isnt anything special Id say

40h is normal. That's 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. That's the absolute minimum for a teacher, and usually never happens. Most teachers work at a minimum of 45 hours each week (that they get paid for, add another 5-10 hours that they don't get compensated for at all). The problem isn't the hours/week, it's that the average education-time for a "high-school" (our equivalent) teacher is about 4,5 years. Other academic careers on the same level of education gets paid more, and usually doesn't work as much. So a hypothetical teacher who works 40h/week still gets paid less than someone on the same level of education who works the same hours.

The funny thing is that teachers, with a 4-5 years education on their neck (which here equals student-loans) often gets paid as much, sometimes even less than someone who works as, say a substitute teacher, who in many cases doesn't even have any such education at all. And the educated teacher has to pay back on said loans, which leads to less income each month.

Id rather have a stupid idealist teacher than somebody who does it mainly for cash and other benefits.

That's the thing, there are no teachers who does it for the money, benefits or career opportunities.

Fair ? Dun think so but could be worse.

This mentality is just plain dumb. Everything can get worse, but is that some sort of argument for not making anything better? And if not, why even mention it at all?