Reply #61: You're either being willfully disingeuous, or you're dramatically uninformed on this topic [View All]

The vast majority of teachers aren't paid $70,000, more like $20-30,000 to start and progress slooowly up the pay scale from there. Let's compare that with the starting salaries for those with other four year degrees, you'll find that an education degree is down around the bottom on monetary return for your education buck.

Meanwhile those taking a standard college education degree take a significantly larger amount of class hours, which means larger amounts of money invested in the education. If you're getting your degree in a middle or high school content area you are essentially getting two degrees, one in education and one in your content area.

As far as working only nine months a year, go find a teacher and ask them what they did last summer. You'll find that most of them taught summer school, or better yet, did the mandatory continuing education (which now includes getting a masters degree) on their own dime.

Before you make further foolish statements I would suggest that you go find out what teaching is really like.