Why teachers at the United States have a low income  in  spite to  hold college degree?
445753
For starters teachers only work 9 months out of every year. My base salary is $38,000 which puts me in the bottom 10% of teachers doing the same job at other colleges in my state (high school teachers in the area make about the same). If I work the other 3 months of the year I earn about $58,000. Which, working four days a week, ain't that bad. I can think of many, many more jobs that work much more than me and make a whole lot less. But, you're right, those jobs don't require an MS or Ph.D. degree.\n\nI could take my math degrees and programming experience and work in industry making more than double my salary to start. But, I prefer to keep this job and be there for my son when he needs me. When he gets older, I'll leave education and earn more money. In the mean time I'm not complaining about my salary because I knew what the job paid before I accepted the position.\n\nTeaching is a great job for parents with small children. My job allows me to spend time with my son every single day and, to me, that's priceless.
969113
You are wrong. Society gives a lot of respect to teachers. What they don't give is a living (aka salary), as money is more expensive than respect.
588853
Generally speaking, not wanting to work. Money can be easily had if one is willing to single-mindedly pursue it, or if you're a lucky genius with a great idea.\n\nThe only way to go upward in class is to work hard, and most people are not willing to work that hard at it. Personally, I'm middle-class from middle-class stock and that's good enough. I'm not willing to make the sacrifices necessary to be "rich".
1051605
yes.  It's getting more expensive to go to college because funding is being cut.  The "no child left behind" is an oxymoron because the schools can't produce the rules they mandate because of cut backs in funding.
494903
There are a lot of jobs that are less desirable for the college grads.  Often, these are physically demanding, or perhaps somewhat dangerous jobs.  like: police, fireman, military, trucker, oil rig worker, coal miner, fisherman etc.  All paid very well.
102154
At public universities the thinking was that if you educate the masses, the masses can get higher paying jobs and repay the university through the taxes paid on that higher income which will most likely be higher over the life of the student than of the expenditure while studying. \n\nMany governor's have kept their no-tax raising pledges by raising fees across the state and tuition is one of the biggest losers in that regard.  For them, their children may be more likely to go to a private college so it doens't matter to them whether or not the quality of education is harmed in the process.
688529
because the need a good reason to keep kids in school and take money from college students... why else???
851187
How about lack of proper guidance in the Public School system?  Do teachers work for a salary or to improve the knowledge of the youth they teach? What is wrong with education in (your country) today.   Do any of these get it for you?
785960
Because they're actually communists. They want everything to be better for them and to do that they think people who have more money should give some of it up. If they had only stayed in school...then they wouldn't be lazing about and sucking on the welfare teat. \n\nI'm not rich either, but I hate it when poor people sit around and don't do anything to improve their situation and hope that the government will make everything better for them.
773668
Not really.  The teachers aren't even required to have a degree in private schools.  They are also way underpaid because they don't have the Masters Degree and therefore can't get a better paying job at a public school.  \n\nPrivate schools make their owners rich.  That is their purpose.
399618
YES!  DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE HOW A TEACHER ONLY GETS PAID $30,000 A YEAR. AN ATHELETE WHO CAN'T HARDLY SPELL BUT CAN MAKE OVER A MILLION DOLLARS!
999421
Certainly! College degrees are handed out today like candy at Halloween. Colleges and universities lose funding if students fail, so they have a powerful financial interest in seeing to it that even the most ignorant, illiterate moron gets a degree. \n\nNow,...your question should read; "If someone says they have a college degree, but still talks like a barrio rat, would you believe they "Actually Earned" that degree"?
161340
Teachers dont get paid like the educated professionals that they are.  They put in a lot of overtime hours and they dont see a cent of that.  The more overtime they put in, the less they are getting paid.  Teachers also buy a lot of materials out of pocket.  Take the time one day and look inside a classroom.  The borders on the bulletin boards, half the books in the class library, markers, erasers, pencils, stickers, prizes, even some of the furniture was purchased by the teacher and NOT provided by the school.  Been there, done that...but still can't imagine myself doing anything else.
714339
Haha no they don't, and even if you showed them proof they wouldnt believe it.  They would just blame the person and say it's their fault for being born poor, not working hard enough, whatever.\n\nEdit- Some of the answers on here are unbelievable.  "Educate yourself"  "We are as strong as men and can get a great job if need be"  Educate yourself?  Have any of these people been to the hood lately?  Or to a rural school?  Kids from there don't get coaching to take the SATs, their test scores arent as high as the kids of these parents on here...if they go to a college where SATs arent accepted then they are bringing down the quality of education...plus if you take out a loan you have to pay it back for the rest of your life at mafia interest rates...hard to deal with when the price of gas is what it is and everything going up but our salaries...People on here dont' seem to realize that the cost of welfare is MINIMAL compared to what we are paying for our MILITARY.  I wish people would WAKE UP.  If we cut that budget in half we would have money for schools to make them better, smaller classrooms, better teachers...safer playgrounds and neighborhoods...maybe we could take care of the ignorance and we wont have some baby's mamas with three kids by the time they are 21...let some of the SNOBS walk in their shoes for awhile, with little opportunity to get out of the cycle they are in...no, they would just rather complain and *****about people who dont' know any better anyway.  JERKS!!!
1153506
where? the USA? the world?\n\nin the US you need money to continue your education past high school. Either in the form of scholarships, student loans, grants, or out of pocket. A lot of people that want to go to college simply cant afford it.
460753
In order to work in some professions, it is required.  Physical Therapy and Advance Nurse Practioners, Social Workers who want to be therapists, most teaching positions encourage graduate degrees and if you want to teach on a college level require as a minimum a graduate degree.  If you wanted to do research, a minimum of a graduate degree is required.  Additionally there are jobs in business that have minimum requirements of a graduate degree - such as certain finance jobs, product management, consulting work, etc.  As you can see, many, many jobs require advanced education as even a stepping stone toward entry.  \n\nMost of these jobs pay pretty well - and they should since they require more education and high levels of responsibility, but that might not be the only reason you want to do it.  There's something to be said about running a project or making the decisions about therapy or whatever...being in charge that is rewarding and more interesting than just arriving at work and punching a clock.
689531
Teachers don't get paid much, unless they are good enough and lucky enough to teach at a ritzy private academy. So not too many people want to put up with kids all day for chicken feed, so you have to put more and more kids into one classroom because there aren't enough teachers to go around, which makes the teaching job that much more difficult and that much more unpleasant until finally no one wants to be a teacher anymore and all our kids end up ignorant and poor and so they rob you for a living.