Posted on 09/03/2006 4:56:53 PM PDT by takeemout
If you think that's not enough, you can move elsewhere so she can make a lot more money. A 30 year teacher with a masters degree retiring in my district is making over 130k with benefits, and then gets almost 50k a year pension plus medical.
BTW I know quite a few professionals (not hourly employees) who work at least 2000 hours a year, take work home, and are on call evenings and weekends and oftentimes holidays as well. So, the working evenings doesn't really break my heart. She still gets her summer off, every holiday and then some (like a week at easter), and has prep time during the day, right ? HS Teachers around here only teach 5 classes a day - the other 3 periods are prep.
One year I earned a 4 day vacation in Florida paid by my company because I was the person who had put in the most hours with clients - a bit over 2500 that year, to be exact. Wow - I got 4 days off for working over 500 extra hours one year. Never did that again.
Suburban Philly. Pick most any district - Rose Tree-Media, Wallingford/Swathmore, Tredyffrin, Coatesville, Downingtown, Bucks, and so on. Go look at the data published by the state of PA - taxes here mean we pay over 11k per child per school year. Some spend over 16k per child.
See post #82.
That's incredible that they pay teachers that much. Salaries in Oklahoma for public school teachers are in the low-to-mid '30s. (And I don't think the cost of living difference between PA and OK is that much)
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