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This week’s TIME Magazine cover features the teacher’s compensation crisis:
TIME’s new cover: This is what it’s like to be a teacher in America https://t.co/vc8wKzFP3d pic.twitter.com/YFQrytMype
— TIME (@TIME) September 13, 2018
TIME’s new cover: ‘I work 3 jobs and donate blood plasma to pay the bills.’ This is what it’s like to be a teacher in America https://t.co/ZY5IE0PKvw pic.twitter.com/eYzAOFENcb
— TIME (@TIME) September 13, 2018
They headline their article ‘I Work 3 Jobs And Donate Blood Plasma to Pay the Bills.’ This Is What It’s Like to Be a Teacher in America.
Here’s an excerpt from it:
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Thank you for posting this. I was wondering if the article would mention the issue of benefits such as pension – it does, but then quickly dismisses it. However, from the perspective of those paying the bills (i.e. states and taxpayers), those are still costs for paying teachers. If a retired teacher gets pension benefits for 25 years, taxpayers have to foot that bill. Many, if not most, of those taxpayers do not have lifetime pensions from their jobs. Would teachers be willing to give up some of their pension for more money in the present?