how do you figure this?

the typical work week, 50 weeks @ 5 days per week would equal 250 days and that doesn't include holidays being removed.

school at least where I live is 180 days of actual school days. That excludes all the days the teachers have to be there when the students are not there. Where I live the median teachers salary for all grades K-12 is ~$58K.

How is this more iron clad than an FA?

What exactly does the FA earn (median?), what are the FA's median hours per months?

How is a teachers job cush? You have 20-30~ kids per classroom. Its your job to teach, control and make sure that each kid is up to some bizarre no child left behind law (another topic all together) and then you are supposed to do all the grading and planning on your time. You pay for your own supplies or a great deal of them. You deal with parents as stated above, trouble making kids and a school board made up of people so far removed from reality they have no clue what goes on in the schools and then have to deal with what the county supervisors think you should be doing and they are further removed from reality than the school board. You are asked to do more with less each year.

Teachers have minimum education standards and often have post graduate degrees, what do FA's need?

Lets see what could I live with less of in my lifetime

FA's or Teachers

FA's hands down

No I'm not a teacher nor have I ever worked in the school system