<p>Can any unionized occupational group be considered a professional society? Can we equate teachers with attorneys or licensed medical professionals? </p>
<p>Anyway, engineers, microbiologists, chemists, journalists, and military personnel for a few examples make less than teachers’ total yearly compensation and when you take hours worked and unparalled benefites into consideration, most teachers in my neck of the woods are pulling down a really healthy hourly wage.</p>