{"id":8942,"date":"2020-08-31T16:41:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T16:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/09\/04\/teachers-are-asked-to-accept-unfair-nobility-tax\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:34:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:34:47","slug":"teachers-are-asked-to-accept-unfair-nobility-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/teachers-are-asked-to-accept-unfair-nobility-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers are asked to accept unfair nobility tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citing a Pew Center Research survey, Cynthia King notes that teaching ranks only second to military service on the spectrum of most noble contributions to society. In an opinion piece appearing in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/story\/opinion\/columns\/2020\/08\/30\/column-teachers-accept-so-many-sacrifices-its-like-nobility-tax\/5630528002\/\">Jacksonville.com<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/story\/opinion\/columns\/2020\/08\/30\/column-teachers-accept-so-many-sacrifices-its-like-nobility-tax\/5630528002\/\">,<\/a> King, Furman University communication studies professor and chair, says the high regard for teachers is undercut by a &#8220;nobility tax&#8221; &#8211; one levied by the very society that sings teachers&#8217; praises. She says underpayment of teachers and overall cuts to education funding amount to a tax on teachers who serve as instructors, disciplinarians, tutors, first-aid givers, motivators, consolers, surrogate parents, role models, and now, online teaching experts. Learn about what she has to say about reopening schools amid a pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citing a Pew Center Research survey, Cynthia King notes that teaching ranks only second to military service on the spectrum of most noble contributions to society. In an opinion piece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,6,69],"tags":[255,462,262,378,463,261],"class_list":["post-8942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-communication-studies","category-in-the-news","category-on-the-record","tag-covid-19","tag-nobility-tax","tag-pandemic","tag-reopening-schools","tag-teachers","tag-teaching"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}