[sudosysgen]

Most teachers have a bachelors, most cops are not detectives.

I don't know about you but the curriculum absolutely wasn't the same each year with my teachers, it couldn't be.

Beyond that, overtime is paid for cops and unpaid for teachers.

It's true that they don't do much work over the summer, though they have to come in 2-3 weeks in the summer more than the students.

[willcipriano]

My point here is that groups in the US often say either teachers are underpaid and cops are overpaid or the other way around but a simple Google search shows they make about the same. I've never found someone making this claim that could tell me how much either made, just that it was either too much or too little.

If you feel teachers are undervalued, fine but teachers being underpaid and cops overpaid simply isn't logically consistent.

[kenjackson]

> If you feel teachers are undervalued, fine but teachers being underpaid and cops overpaid simply isn't logically consistent.

I'm not making this claim. But this statement has no logical problems, at least not as stated. Just because they might be paid a similar amount (or even if teachers are paid more) doesn't mean that the statement isn't logically consistent.

For example, Lebron James gets X and Nico Mannion gets paid Y (which is much less than X). Many still argue that Lebron is underpaid and Nico maybe overpaid. They deliver different value, and there's the notion of scarcity to provide the level service they provide.

If you think the average teacher (or some percentage of teachers) provides more value then the average cop, then you could make that statement and it not be logically inconsistent.

Unfortunately both have civil servant types of roles, which are hard to valuate in terms of financial impact.