Title: How Much Do Teachers Really Make?
Headings: How Much Do Teachers Really Make?
How Much Do Teachers Really Make?
Aren’t You An Optometrist?
How Much is a Teacher’s Salary?
That Much Education For So Little Pay?
Health Care
Paid Time Off
Job Security
What are the Cons?
Retirement
The Real Reason People Teach
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Written By
Sydney White

Content: Teaching is thankless work. You work your butt off every day to try and get through to a room full of children who are often indifferent at best. The respect that teachers received from students and parents back in my school days is long gone. Many parents love to blame all their children’s problems on the teacher. You are also at the mercy of the state and local governments. The reason our teachers get paid so poorly is that the community will not support a tax increase to raise teacher salaries. The state has also cut the education budget tremendously since 2008. From 2008 to 2012, teachers here did not get their annual raises and had to take furlough days. That adds four extra years before hitting the top salary and being able to retire on schedule. Teachers in Colorado do not pay into social security, so if you quit before retirement age and have not saved independently, you’ll get nothing in retirement.