The Time Magazine has published a controversial article that sheds light on the hardships of being a public school teacher in the US education system.
The article takes a look into the lives of three school teachers with years of experience who are working a number of different jobs to afford basics of living.
One teacher, Hope Brown, has a master’s degree and has worked as a teacher for 16 years. But today, she donates blood plasma twice a week for a measly $60 and a little more if she sells some of her clothes at a consignment store.
The money, she says, is only enough to cover the electricity bill or a car payment and that is why she has to work a second job manning metal detectors at a shop to put together her $55,000 annual salary.
Another teacher, who has two decades of experience at the job, says she cannot afford to “fix her car, see a doctor for headaches or save for my child’s future.”
The article warns that the pay gap…