{"id":17544,"date":"2011-11-01T18:39:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T18:39:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-04-14T09:11:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T13:11:30","slug":"the_truth_about_teacher_salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/11\/01\/the_truth_about_teacher_salaries\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About Teacher Salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I mentioned earlier in the program today that I would be telling you of a shocking study on the truth of what public school teachers earn. A couple of researchers looked into this, and the Washington Examiner editorializes today, and the headline of their piece is: “Public School Teachers Make More Than Private Sector Workers.”<\/p>\n

Now, the reason I\u2019m gonna spend some time on this is because we always hear about how teachers don\u2019t earn anything and they\u2019re so important. “It\u2019s just not right, Mr. Limbaugh. These athletes, A-Rod, with his $275 million contract, what\u2019s A-Rod doing for people compared to teachers? Teachers do so much more for people. Teachers are so important, they\u2019re so underpaid, it\u2019s just not right, Mr. Limbaugh, just isn\u2019t right. Teachers are so important, and we just disrespect them throughout all of our society.” That\u2019s the public conventional wisdom.<\/p>\n

\"\"“Today, my co-author Jason Richwine and I will be releasing a new study on public school teacher pay and holding an event at AEI. It?\u2019s interesting stuff that?\u2019s worth hearing about in person, but here?\u2019s the short story. Salaries: Public school teachers receive lower salaries than similarly-educated private sector workers; this leads many to conclude, as Education Secretary Arne Duncan did, that teachers are ‘desperately underpaid.\u2019 But these credentials-based comparisons are dicey when a single occupation (teacher) generally holds a single type of degree (bachelors or masters in education). Research we cite shows that education is, to put things bluntly, among the easiest college majors — teachers enter college with below-average SAT scores but earn far higher GPAs than people majoring in history, chemistry, or other subjects. That skews the numbers.”<\/p>\n

The bottom line with this is that it\u2019s another piece of conventional wisdom that has now been stood on its head. That compared to others, public school teachers are desperately underpaid. They\u2019re not. They make more than private sector workers, and that\u2019s becoming accurate to say about every public sector versus private sector job. The average public sector employee makes almost twice when you factor benefits into the picture what a private sector person makes. Now, some of you might say, “So what, Rush. I thought you were for everybody doing well.” Oh, I am, don\u2019t misunderstand. But private sector people are the ones who are paying the public sector people. That becomes a problem.<\/p>\n

When the people paying earn only half of the people who are being paid by them that\u2019s not gonna work out. Now, a good deal of the revenue from schools comes from property taxes, you know, the homes and businesses of people who never pay their fair share, many of whom don\u2019t have children living at home. What does this money pay for? Public sector union teachers, administrators and their facilities and all part of a near monopoly that turns out ill-educated students. That\u2019s what the scores say, that\u2019s what business owners say, they all agree. Yet despite these results, these greedy property owners who are derogatorily called the 1%, they\u2019re dutifully paying their property taxes without so much as a thank you.<\/p>\n


\nYou know, yesterday I got off on a rant about it being time that we went after the left\u2019s base. They\u2019re going after ours as racist and sexists and we are the 1%, and we\u2019re the ones not paying our fair share and all of that; and we have to have our taxes increased. We\u2019ve gotta “do more,” when in fact their base make up the nation\u2019s losers! Way too many people who vote Democrat are in the loser class in this country, and they\u2019re out there with their hands out. They\u2019re demanding this and they\u2019re demanding that just because they can — and no matter what they\u2019re given, they never say thank you. They just continue to complain that it\u2019s not enough; and they continue to claim that others who are providing what they get still aren\u2019t paying their fair share; and all of this is encouraged by the Democrats. But we, we are what?<\/p>\n

We\u2019re supposed to thank all of these public sector teachers. We\u2019re supposed to thank these people for the hard work they\u2019re doing educating our students — and we\u2019re expected to say that we wish they were paid more. We are expected to say that they are being taken advantage of by the rich, evil 1% who aren\u2019t paying their fair share. That\u2019s the accepted narrative: “Teachers, principals, administrators rebuke are underpaid, underappreciated; we don\u2019t say thanks enough for all the hard work they do. Instead we\u2019re overpaying athletes and bankers and everybody else.” When in fact the takers and losers that make up the Democrat Party base never say thanks for anything. All they ever say is, “It\u2019s not enough,” and that\u2019s what these guys, Richwine and Biggs, have done at AEI and Heritage. They have studied and they have examined who really is underpaid and who isn\u2019t, and it\u2019s interesting stuff. It gets a little technical, which is why I have summarized it for you here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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