Looks like summer is finally over for Detroit's 130,000 students.

Detroit teachers ended their more than two-week strike on Wednesday after their union's executive board approved a tentative three-year contract. Classrooms opened Thursday, but teachers still didn't get what they wanted.

The strike began Aug. 28, following the teachers' denial of a two-year contract proposal. After not receiving a raise for two years, the teachers rightfully wanted one. The district, however, was instead seeking a 5.5 percent pay-cut for teachers over two years.

Teaching is a profession that is disgustingly underpaid and under appreciated. It doesn't make sense that the people who help mold our children for the majority of the day aren't getting paid well enough to make a decent living.

In the end, the district and the teachers met in the middle — teachers will receive a one-year pay freeze, followed by increases of 1 percent the second year and 2.5 percent the third.

It's reasonable that teachers were striking, but something needs to be done so this doesn't happen again in the future.

Now being two weeks behind, it is the students that really suffer.