Teacher Is Underpaid and Underappreciated
As we all know, teaching is a stressful job and it is not any easier compared to other occupations. If there are people that think being a teacher is easy because all you have to do is teach students and make sure they understand. They have a wrong understanding of what a teacher really is. As a teacher, they have to be able to become an impact and influences ones’ life – which is far from easy. A lot of teachers all around the world claimed that this profession is underpaid and underappreciated. According to Jones (n. d. ), the teacher is listed as the most underpaid job that deserves higher pay.
Teachers should be paid more because they are the ones that provide quality education. There would not be any doctors or engineers without a teacher. Teachers work hard to teach students from education based on their syllabus to life lessons that could be applied once they are out of school. Students' knowledge about the outside world, the reality of the world nowadays as well as the norms are all taught in school by the teachers. Therefore, teaching is a very important profession and it should be appreciated more.
Other than that, teachers should be paid more because teaching is a very stressful job. Teachers would have to come up with a lot of fun educational projects and activities in class as well to make sure the students understand and enjoy the lesson. This would usually cause them to work outside of school time and sacrificed their holiday or break. The teachers took the job of a parent whenever they are in school. They are the ones that will have to discipline and counsel their students when their grades dropped or when they have a discipline problem. Taking care of one or two children is hard enough and it is even harder when there are 20 or more children under a teacher’s supervision. Moreover, most of the students might not have the same respect they have for their parents towards their teachers.
References
Jones, P. (n. d.) Top 8 Most Underpaid Jobs That Deserve Much Higher Pay. Retrieved from https://www.thejobnetwork.com/top-8-most-underpaid-jobs-that-deserve-much-higher-pay/
Teachers: Underpaid and Underappreciated. (2018, May 3). Retrieved from http://www.teenink.com/opinion/school_college/article/992633/Teachers-Underpaid-and-Underappreciated/