Persuasive Essay: Why Teachers Deserve A Raise

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Why Teachers Deserve A Raise
One thing that I noticed in today’s society is that most people don’t go out and say I want to be a teacher when I get older. Most people go out a look for jobs that can help them have a secure future with a high pay such as being a doctor or a lawyer. This makes teaching a very undesirable job with in turn makes teaching harder for those who actually want to do it because they have to do more work since there isn’t enough people. (Washington Post) After looking at this picture you can see just how different the pay is between the two professions. There are a lot of things that lawyers and doctors don’t have to deal with that teachers do. Teachers also have to deal with a lot of after school time that they don’t …show more content…

One thing that it could lead to is more people wanting to be teachers. After looking at Cindy Long’s article titled “Public Supports Higher Pay For Teachers”, I noticed that seven out of ten people want their children to become teachers but most children and teens try and go for jobs that are higher paying. Raising the salaries for teachers would make it a more “desirable” job. This could also lead to more jobs being fulfilled in the teaching industry. If more jobs are fulfilled then we could provide more classrooms and afterschool help for students who need it.
There are still a lot of skeptics when it comes to raising teachers salaries. Another quote I found on Debate.org was from someone who did not support raising the pay for teachers. It stated
“They were obviously fully aware as to what their pay scale would be when they took the job to become a teacher and should have the decency to deal with the choice they made instead of whining about it. In addition to this, how is it fair that they get an increase in their wages when people who worked their butts off in college to actually get the higher paying jobs like medical laboratory technologist or a radiologist and they don 't get a pay increase as well . . …show more content…

After doing some research on this I have found that most teachers don’t really get the summer off. On the National Education Association 's home website you can see myths and facts about teaching jobs. One of them is teachers get to vacation in the summer. Most teachers have to find a second job to support their families in the summer because using the money they earn throughout the year does not cover the summer budget. On the “Washington Post” They described the things that teachers have to go through just to get the money they need. It

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