Should Teachers Be Paid More

Why Teachers Should be Paid More Jenni Malone How many of you believe teachers should be paid more? In my opinion they should be getting paid twice as much as their current income. Teachers are like a power source. They teach students everything they need to know to be prepared for their futures; they even go out of their way to make sure that students understand the lesson. For those of you that believe that teachers don’t deserve to be paid more, you obviously don’t understand how important teachers are to society. Without teachers, humans would not have a very good education which means that people would not get high paying jobs and I bet many of you in this room would like to own an Audi R8 when you are older but how are you going to accomplish that if you are still making minimum wage because you don’t have a college degree? Teachers depend on us to pay them and our future depends on teachers. In the next several years, over one million teachers are expected to leave their class rooms if they are still getting paid as much as they do now. They’re not going to want to continue to make a low income while NBA
Much of this money goes to inexperienced teachers and courses to train these teachers to become better educators for the future. Instead, we should put these billions into improving the teachers we have. A recent survey found that 3 in every 4 teachers believe that higher salaries are important to retaining teachers. Many new teachers take a few years to get into the groove of being an educator and students of inexperienced teachers perform poorer than those of experienced teacher which is why we should keep experienced teachers to improve quality of the students and classrooms. Also, many businesses pay more to keep their best workers so we need to pay educators more if we want to retain our best and brightest