For 6 hours a day, 9 months of the year of work?
Who decides if a techer is great or not?
Why only $150K? Why not a million?
This is my 42nd year of teaching (really). Pay me the $150K today because I am a great teacher./s
The way the FED is printing money, that may happen sooner rather than later.
Here’s a radical idea: why not pay them exactly what they’re worth in an open and free labor market?
I’d be willing to accept that.
But only under the following conditions:
1) No collective bargaining
2) They pay for their own health care and retirement out of their salaries. They can cut a deal through the NEA or whatever org they want to get better coverage/rates.
3) No tenure. Ever.
4) At will employment with individual contracts only.
Does that mean that we can cut the pay of, or fire, bad ones?
When everyone is able to live in million dollar homes to support a property tax base that will pay 150K per year for teachers...and the average wage is 150K to pay that property tax- then - sure - pay ‘em 150K *ugh*
Somehow, and I know it sounds crazy but, the moment we start paying the so-called best teachers 150 grand a year, it would turn out that every teacher would be making a 150 grand a year.
As a non-union public school teacher, I disagree. I started at 28K my first year. That’s @35K minus the summer.
GET RID OF ALL THE 200K A YEAR PIECES OF **** AND MAYBE SOME OF THE TEACHERS WOULD MAKE MORE.
Let’s see the big accounting firms hire the top students at the top universities and pay around $52K per year to start, working 12 months a year for 70 hours a week. According to a study done a few years back over half of new teachers come from the bottom third of their college class.
Yes let’s pay new teachers $65K per year, makes perfect sense.
Teachers at PRIVATE SCHOOLS, with long experience, who draw PAYING students to their school (usually because they’ve made a name for themselves as a scientist/writer/politician) already make this kind of money.
Teachers at public schools, who do the job that they are paid to do, and belong to a union, with all the protections that a union provides, deserve nothing more than union scale.
Collective bargaining is a bitch, aint it?
Adding quality to a product (school) that has no tangible way to improve cash flow to the producer (the school district) cannot possibly be rewarded with cash.
It’s hard to be a socialist while expecting the benefits of capitalism.
Second, a standardized Competency Test should be administered to ALL Public School Teachers, and those that don't measure up are gone from Taxpayer-funded non-productive employment.
Third, Teacher Pay should reflect the dumbness we have being produced from schoolz today....and, Competency shall be demonstrated annually, through standardized testing of Teachers. Incompetency will NOT be tolerated, and THEN we'll consider a salary that will attract Competent replacements.
Trash the whole system. It is FUBR. Convert to an on line education system that doesn’t need overcompensated unions, bureaucrats, busing, costly facilities, lunch and breakfast programs, child care, etc. Make learning how to read, write and do arithmetic available on line to anyone who wants it. If they don’t that’s their business. Let them learn how it is trying to live without an education. The can serve as the examples.
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First off get rid of all the education departments in our universities. They should major in the subject they are going to teach. Cut out the indoctrination that comes with the degree in education.
This country is chock-full of people who are really, really great at their jobs, and who don’t earn $150K.