Teachers Unions Say Each Teacher Costs Schools $100,000 But Unions Still Want MORE Money

Teresa Mull and Lennie Jarratt Heartland Institute

 It’s the holiday season, and as America’s school-aged kids and their teachers enjoy a nice vacation, our country’s teachers unions are doing what they do best: throwing a childish tantrum and demanding they get more of your hard-earned tax dollars to spoil their underperforming members.

The National Education Association (NEA) recently weighed in on the Republican tax reform legislation. Unsurprisingly, it pronounced the sky is falling on education because Republicans and the Trump administration want people to be able to keep more of their own money. NEA published a spreadsheet declaring, “Nearly 250,000 education jobs at risk if Congress eliminates state and local tax deduction.”

A closer look at the NEA numbers reveals to arrive at its numbers, NEA concludes the average educator’s job costs schools $100,000 each. One-hundred thousand dollars per teacher! Can that be correct? And if it is, how can NEA so boldly expose such a number and then shamelessly whine that it’s not enough? .................The belief that public school teachers are underpaid is a myth, and it’s one that too many Americans have been duped into believing. “Respondents to the 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform estimated the 2015–16 national average salary of U.S. K–12 public school teachers to be $40,587, more than 30 percent below the real National Center for Education Statistics figure of $58,064,” a Heartland Institute news article recently reported. “Even teachers underestimated the average teacher salary by about 20 percent.”..........To Read More....

My Take - Here's the crux of the matter.  If these people were turning out nuts and bolts instead of future employees - the manufacturers would reject them at the dock door as defective.  America's teachers in K-12 are overpaid and under producing.  The "teachers" at the university level are really overpaid, totally underworked and completely failing to teach the truth about history, economics, religion, politics and social standard from anything except collectivist insanity.