I’m not a fan of public education. Many of you are here because you share my views on public education, which is awesome. Unsurprisingly, President Joe Biden does not share those views. In fact, it seems the president is ready to pander to teachers. How? By pitching a pay raise over on X, formerly Twitter.
One of my sisters is a teacher (overseas for the past 15 years, but in the US as she began her career) and her summers were full of required re-certification courses and the like (which she had to pay for) that were a condition of keeping her job so it's not all fun and games for them in the summers. Not every summer, and not completely filling the summer time, but it was still there.
Since she started doing working at overseas schools that's actually been less of a requirement, and overseas pay often includes housing and a car as part of it, plus she's paid in dollars in (often) poorer countries so she's been able to sock away enough that she's almost ready to retire and she's not even 50 yet, so there's that too....
Yeah, I didn't think about the certification stuff, though a lot of other people have to do that and do it around their regular work schedule without the benefit of having that chunk of time off to focus on it, but yeah, that is still a thing.
And something a lot of other people never have to fool with.
One of my sisters is a teacher (overseas for the past 15 years, but in the US as she began her career) and her summers were full of required re-certification courses and the like (which she had to pay for) that were a condition of keeping her job so it's not all fun and games for them in the summers. Not every summer, and not completely filling the summer time, but it was still there.
Since she started doing working at overseas schools that's actually been less of a requirement, and overseas pay often includes housing and a car as part of it, plus she's paid in dollars in (often) poorer countries so she's been able to sock away enough that she's almost ready to retire and she's not even 50 yet, so there's that too....
Yeah, I didn't think about the certification stuff, though a lot of other people have to do that and do it around their regular work schedule without the benefit of having that chunk of time off to focus on it, but yeah, that is still a thing.
And something a lot of other people never have to fool with.