Teaching is a contract job, not an hourly one. There are endless examples of jobs that you’re paid to do a specific task, not just for showing up and breathing. With teaching, there’s a certain amount of work that needs to be done. You aren’t paid for how many hours it takes, you’re paid to get it done. They share that work and are able to finish it MUCH quicker than their coworkers because there are two of them. They aren’t each doing the same amount of work as the teachers in the classrooms next to them. They simply aren’t doing the job of two teachers.
The school has x number of contracts for y classes. They’re sharing a contract. The class they’re teaching only requires one teacher. The alternative would have been to only hire one of them and consider the other a class volunteer.
They could have chosen to get an hourly job where they both could have been paid that way. But they didn’t.
And you CAN do half a job, because this is an example of them doing exactly that. They aren’t grading two classes worth of work. They aren’t contacting two classes worth of parents. They aren’t planning for two classes, etc. That’s all a huge part of the job.
You could halve my pay if I did half the work. My district allows contract sharing, which is two teachers sharing a contract. They each get half the salary. It’s quite popular.
Ok fine. Then their class size should be double that of the other teachers at the school. They’re doing the job of two teachers according to you, so then they do the job of two teachers. Easy peasy. They can both teach two different classes simultaneously since that’s what two teachers generally do.
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u/IrrawaddyWoman 1d ago edited 1d ago
Teaching is a contract job, not an hourly one. There are endless examples of jobs that you’re paid to do a specific task, not just for showing up and breathing. With teaching, there’s a certain amount of work that needs to be done. You aren’t paid for how many hours it takes, you’re paid to get it done. They share that work and are able to finish it MUCH quicker than their coworkers because there are two of them. They aren’t each doing the same amount of work as the teachers in the classrooms next to them. They simply aren’t doing the job of two teachers.
The school has x number of contracts for y classes. They’re sharing a contract. The class they’re teaching only requires one teacher. The alternative would have been to only hire one of them and consider the other a class volunteer.
They could have chosen to get an hourly job where they both could have been paid that way. But they didn’t.
And you CAN do half a job, because this is an example of them doing exactly that. They aren’t grading two classes worth of work. They aren’t contacting two classes worth of parents. They aren’t planning for two classes, etc. That’s all a huge part of the job.