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I've been working as a software dev for 20+ years,the only time I actually truly worked 60+ hours a week was when I was attempting to get my own startup off the ground.

Other than that, it's usually been 10-15 of actual work work.

Really not trying to brag, but to bring context to the conversation,I make 10 times what a teacher makes.

I think it's a real problem teachers are underpaid and undervalued. IMO schools should have very basic facilities/luxuries, and awesome very well paid teachers (150-200k) who we expect a lot out of, give a lot of liberties to. This way there will always be competition and prestige involved with being a teacher.

Might sound expensive, but I truly think it's an investment that will more than pay for itself in ~1 generation

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I just did the math. Paying every teacher $150k would cost more than my entire local district gets in total funding every year.

That's a lot of new property taxes.

Did you deduct the current average pay and take into account federal and state funding which may even exceed local funding?

Or... maybe reduce our defense budget nationally. We have endless funds for wars and bailing out large corporations. We don't need to raise taxes to accomplish this.

>Really not trying to brag, but to bring context to the conversation,I make 10 times what a teacher makes.

no, that lines up with my experience. I was making 60k/yr as a software engineer when I was working Part Time. That was fine for me since I had an extra 20 hours a week to do whatever I wanted and they let me work remote. I could not imagine going through that job while dealing witch a laughably disrespectful salary.

>IMO schools should have very basic facilities/luxuries, and awesome very well paid teachers (150-200k)

Parents and taxpayers want fancy new football fields, and they want teachers to be poorly paid because they want to look down on them.

The evil American empire is controlled by very rich tyrants who train people to be corrupt dumbasses everywhere. That's why you have a mob of loud-mouthed people who care about sports more than teachers. That mob of people are not perfect for a civilization. They are perfect for making civilization collapse. Civilization is built by making education more important than sports. Teachers being looked down upon is a symptom of civilization collapsing while entertainment like a football game distracts sheep from that ugly reality. Those parents who look down on teachers are sheep. I would keep my imaginary children away from those sheep. Those sheep only care about themselves in a short-sighted way based on instant gratification bullshit.

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