Yeah, saying they deserve one pay because they have one body sound like they think short people should make half as much as tall people.
Plenty of jobs have people team up on a single task and they still each get their own paycheck. Just because they teach the same class doesn't mean they can only focus on one student at a time, or that they can't discuss lesson plans or how to handle situations. It's the same as getting an opinion or help from any other coworker.
The problem is the job they chose. If they'd done just about anything that's largely done on computers I think they could be earning two paychecks, just put them in a cubicle with two computers side by side. Left twin does her tasks right twin does her's, that's two people's output and worthy of two people's pay.
As teachers they can't spilt up to help more than one group of students at a time, one of them can't cover another teacher's classroom in an emergency, they have to have the exact same schedule all the time. They are, at most, 1 1/2 teachers. They can look in two different directions, it's probably not too difficult for them to talk to two students separately, but two separate people can do that and more. At no level of teaching is having two attached people worth paying two whole paychecks.
Each twin has full control over one arm, one armed people all over the world successfully hold office jobs. Two PCs side by side, left twin uses one with their left arm, right twin uses one with their right arm.
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u/Jimberly_C 1d ago
Yeah, saying they deserve one pay because they have one body sound like they think short people should make half as much as tall people.
Plenty of jobs have people team up on a single task and they still each get their own paycheck. Just because they teach the same class doesn't mean they can only focus on one student at a time, or that they can't discuss lesson plans or how to handle situations. It's the same as getting an opinion or help from any other coworker.