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Persuasive Essay On Why Teachers Should Be Paid

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I decided to write my last Essay on why teachers should be paid more. I feel all educators’ salary should be double what they are now paid. Preparing for a class lesson is time consuming, moreover, can take a teacher an average of thirty minutes to an hour to prepare for any single one-hour class. That’s not even including the time the teacher takes the days before to do some research on the topic. According to a McKinsey Study called “Closing the Talent Gap,” teachers’ salaries have declined for the past 40 years. In the past decade alone, salaries have decreased further in 30 states. Had salaries grown equally to our classroom spending, the average salary would now be around $125,000. Unfortunately, a teacher’s starting salary is, on average,
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