Taylor Mali (taylormali.com), one of the most well-known poets to have emerged from the poetry slam movement and one of the few people in the world to have no job other than that of poet., gives his mind on what teachers make. Mali is a vocal advocate of teachers and the nobility of teaching, having himself spent nine years in the classroom teaching everything from English and history to math and SAT test preparation. He has performed and lectured for teachers all over the world, and his New Teacher Project has a goal of creating 1000 new teachers through “poetry, persuasion, and perseverance.” Please visit http for more on Mali and his New Teacher Project. taylormali.com
Taylor Mali on “What Teachers Make”
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@rebanns0408 You’re on the level of this video with that speech. Not many people seem to appreciate hard work nowadays.
@Culture261 Sounds like you should go through your education and become a teacher too so you can see how easy it is.
@Culture261 know his mom got hauled off to jail last night, and it’s killing him inside. I’ll be the first to tell you the fact that teachers are on a pay scale based on experience not on performance is screwed up. I do fifty times the work of some of the others I know, and make thousands less, because I’m younger. But don’t, even for a second, think my job is easy.
@Culture261 phone it in, but comments like that just infuriate me! Come do my job. I dare you. Spend two hours preparing a game so that your kids can have fun instead of just listening to a lecture, and then sit there with a tolerant smile on your face while half of them tell you how stupid it is. Have a kid who spent all year defending to his other teachers call you a b**** and tell you to f*** off when you ask him to put his phone away, and don’t say anything harsh back to him, because you
@Culture261 their mom spent every day telling them how stupid and worthless they were. And do you know how it makes me feel? Not like a hero like you said. No, it makes me feel like absolute s*** for not being able to do more for that kid….for not having the ability to take every one of my students and making sure that they go home every night to parents that love them and give them what they need like I was lucky enough to do as a kid. I realize you said teaching is easy “IF” you want to
@Culture261 I get paid for 190 days of work, but I guarantee I put in just as many days as someone who makes $90,000 a year. And on top of that, I get the emotional baggage of every single one of my students. I have students who have come back a year later and told me that I’m the only reason they didn’t kill themselves in 8th grade, because I spent all those hours before, after, and during school talking to them, and it made them realize that at least one adult cared about them, even though
@Culture261 sleep with their students or deal them drugs. And yes, there are teachers who aren’t worth half of what they’re paid, because they show up at 8, “teach” from their desk, leave right at 3:30, and do absolutely no work once they leave the school building. Some of us, though, are there before 7:00, don’t leave till after 6:00, and even then, we do more work when we get home. I have yet to spend a Thanksgiving, Christmas, spring, or summer break NOT working on school-related things.
@Culture261 First of all, get your facts straight. A degree in education takes four years, not two. Secondly, I’m now teaching for my fourth year, I coach volleyball (a paid position), and sponsor student council (also a paid position), have a Master’s degree (a bump on the pay scale), and make WELL under $50,000 with all of that combined. Third, there are MANY of us that are not part of the union, because we don’t want to pay monthly dues to support lawsuits to protect the idiots that
I have a hard time coming to terms with the fact that the people sitting here bickering via YouTube comments are fellow teachers. We wonder why our kids are such bullies these days — look at the example they have to follow.
@powerballplayer how wonderful, thats awesome
This is America….money talks and bs walks.
I do things for the challenge (and yes, a lot of times I do stuff for FREE, which is actually a large part of my ontology: if I would not do it for free, I won’t do it) … the primary person I answer to is ME, for (to me) the voice in my head is that of God.
(ROFLMAO) I make nothing. I am gifted enough for my services that I have food on my table and a roof over my head. For this and everything else I have, I am thankful. “Those who complain about how little they are paid are not good enough at what they do to love doing it for the sake of doing it” C.S.
WELL HOW MUCH MONEY DO YOU MAKE??
By the way, those were the words of Rudolf Hoss, commandant of Auschwitz.
By examples in Webster’s, “Make” is directly interchangeable with “force”
A voice of history recalled being “taught that my highest duty was to help those in need” but added that he learned this lesson in the context of the importance of “obey(ing) promptly the wishes and commands of my parents, teachers and priests, and indeed of all adults…. What ever they said was always right.”
@Culture261 Don’t worry about it! Also I didn’t mean to go all grammar nazi on your ass, I’m just one of those teachers who are passionate and I always defend the profession! :)