I keep reading about teacher’s unions and strikes complaining about low teacher’s pay. All I know is when I look at a local district pay listing on the state database the salaries range from 70 to 100 thousand with administrators 100 to 200 plus. They get pensions that pay up to 75% of their last day salary, medical plans, guaranteed incremental raises and raises for educational advancement. Mean while our county has the second highest property taxes in the country and districts are striking for more money. The only low salaries are in really rural areas and starting pay which is designed to control the supply of teachers.
About 40% of those people who major in education, get a teaching job and start teaching wash out before the 5th year, often because they can make more money with an easier job. I have taught and I have worked in an office. The major difference is that when you are working in an office you do not have to be paying 100% attention 100% of the time. And, when you leave work, you leave work. Each class requires about 20 minutes of prep time if you are revising lessons you have done before, which is necessary because no two groups of kids need exactly the same thing, – no two kids actually need exactly the same lesson. If it’s a new lesson, an hour an a half is more likely.After getting a total of 6 1/2 years of college and working for 32 years, I was making slightly less than my nephew was two years into a sales job.All of the ideas for improving education add about 20% to the classroom hours, and no additional money seems to be available to get extra people to help with the job. Eventually, they are going to get to the point where no one with the intelligence to do the job is going to be dumb enough to take it.
We pay a fair amount in taxes here, and our district uses the money they get to provide us with good schools and other services. It’s a little deal we have between us.
In Chicago they have an (ex-)CEO of the schools who’s admitted to ‘packing’ $2.3 million in kickbacks because she had “tuition to pay and casinos to visit”.And only a few months ago, Chicago Democrats were touting Barbara Byrd-Bennett as a possible U.S. Senate candidate. Now she has a different sort of government job awaiting her-sorting prison laundry.
jessie d. Premium Member over 8 years ago
And since we’re in Florida we will ignore the voter mandate and jam your classes with heaps of youngins.
Theodore E. Lind Premium Member over 8 years ago
I keep reading about teacher’s unions and strikes complaining about low teacher’s pay. All I know is when I look at a local district pay listing on the state database the salaries range from 70 to 100 thousand with administrators 100 to 200 plus. They get pensions that pay up to 75% of their last day salary, medical plans, guaranteed incremental raises and raises for educational advancement. Mean while our county has the second highest property taxes in the country and districts are striking for more money. The only low salaries are in really rural areas and starting pay which is designed to control the supply of teachers.
Diane Lee Premium Member over 8 years ago
Addled Brain over 8 years ago
A former teacher, I would never again teach in public school. Likewise, I would never be a policeman.
Kip W over 8 years ago
We pay a fair amount in taxes here, and our district uses the money they get to provide us with good schools and other services. It’s a little deal we have between us.
ARodney over 8 years ago
Um… you missed it. the cartoon is about arming teachers. Read the posters?
manteo16nc over 8 years ago
In Chicago they have an (ex-)CEO of the schools who’s admitted to ‘packing’ $2.3 million in kickbacks because she had “tuition to pay and casinos to visit”.And only a few months ago, Chicago Democrats were touting Barbara Byrd-Bennett as a possible U.S. Senate candidate. Now she has a different sort of government job awaiting her-sorting prison laundry.
Nov Nov Man over 8 years ago
Looks to me like Uncle Sam wants citizens to emigrate…