I have several teacher friends, so I know how much work it is. Here they went from the classroom to online instruction really quickly and with not a lot of support from their administration and it has been a rough adjustment. At the same time, parents seem to think that they aren't doing much because they are now working from home. It's really frustrating for them. It seems to have exacerbated the point of view of some people that teachers don't work that hard.


I participate in a forum for expats living here and there was a guy with two kids in school saying that he thought that due to the pandemic and online classes, their school should lower the fees and reduce teacher salaries to help pay for it. Without googling for information on teacher salaries here, which would have taken two seconds, he assumed that the average teacher made about three times what they do to justify his call for reduced salaries. Fortunately, someone who actually has worked in education here put him in his place and told him that the only place a teacher would make the kind of salary that he was assuming was at Grange School or Nido de Águilas, which are the two most expensive private schools in the country. And, they'd only get to that salary after 15-20 years. That shut him up!