A Plea For Increasing Teacher’s Salary

Teachers’ salary has remained low nowadays. Critics argue that teachers are very comfortable because they only work for 8 hours everyday and have a two-month long vacation in summer. However, they do not realize the teachers have so much work. The society is unfair to them, and increasing salary is justified.

Being a teacher is not as comfortable as people think. Waking up early everyday, teachers have to be in school by 7:15. Then they have to make sure that the majority of students learn. They also face argumentative students. Fighting in school is often. Teachers have to assume leadership. 5 classes a day, with ever-increasing students in classes, teachers’ burden has gotten heavier. After school, teachers have to grade paper and plan lessons. Statistically, they work till 10 at home. They are not paid by anybody, and teachers sleep right after completing their “homework” without any leisure at all. Is the society fair to them?

People argue that teachers have a two-month long summer vacation. However, they have to work in summer too. To meet the ever-changing world, teachers have to keep upgrading themselves. They also have to find jobs to sustain their family. Therefore, they work all year long. Sometimes, the government recruits teachers to write new plans without pay. Lawyers and Doctors receive more money than teachers do, but they probably work for the same amount of time, so is it fair?

The society has found so many reasons not to increase teachers’ salary, and they never realize how hard teachers work to improve the academic quality of their children. The government has spent so much money on school facility improvement, but it is reluctant to give teachers more pay. Their salary should be increased.