Teacher's salaries

[ADPiSAI]

From someone who worked 3 years in retail during college and is now a teacher...

They don't even COMPARE. Sure, I had my fair share of obnoxious customers, but once they were done screaming at you, they left your store, and you didn't know when, if ever, you would see them again. Their parent isn't going to call and blame their child's actions on you. You have an obnoxious student, and they're in your class every day, causing you all sorts of headaches... and then their parents join in.

You leave your retail job, you're done with it for the day. You leave your teaching job, you have papers to grade, lessons to plan, curriculums to write, textbooks to evaluate... I don't work from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. I work on school stuff until 8, 9 p.m. some nights. Because I have to.

You can't have ANY idea how hard it is to be a teacher unless you're actually teaching, no matter what you might think. I worked as a sub for several months and still had no idea until I was hired.