And this one is the same
These are from the school cafeteria. I don't understand them but the teachers on here should be able to explain. Please do.
Posted on 06/17/2006 5:15:15 AM PDT by wintertime
One of the ongoing controversies in the public schools is the issue of teacher salaries. Teachers largely claim they are too low while taxpayers are equally vehement that they are more than adequate.
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Then there are the actual salary levels. Statistics in 2005 showed the average teacher salary in the nation was $46,762, ranging from a low of $33,236 in South Dakota to $57,337 in Connecticut. Even this ignores the additional compensation teachers receive as fringe benefits, which may add an additional 33% or more to the costs, primarily for very good retirement and health coverage plans. Further, averages include starting teacher salaries, which may begin at $30,000 or less, which teachers gladly mention, but ignore the high salaries of career teachers at or near the maximum on their salary schedule, important because retirement pensions are often based on the best three or so years.
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Last year, the New York State Department of Education issued a study that reported maximum teacher salaries in that state of $100,000 or more and median salaries as high as $98,000 per year. That is, there were districts, in Westchester County for example, where half of the teachers earned more than $98,000 a year.
A novel approach a few years ago by Michael Antonucci, director of the Education Intelligence Agency in California, compared teachers average salaries to average salaries all workers state by state. First prize went to Pennsylvania where the teachers received 62.5% more than the average employee. That difference is even greater when it is further considered that teachers average a 185 day work year while most workers put in 235.
(snip) Women who had been educators were 7.4% of the total deceased that year but 20.6% of them, nearly three times the statistical expectation were among the affluent few. Former male educators didn't do quite as well but even they were represented among the wealthy decedents by a ratio nearly 1.5 times the anticipated numerical ratio.
Mine were in the top 1% in the nation - 30+ years ago, before they "realigned" the scores.
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Amelia, in science, you would be considered an "outlier".
Thanks, but most of the science teachers I know are "smarter than the average bear"...some schools let the coach teach science, though, or did before NCLB. ;-)
I think that's true. I wouldn't say I'm the world's best teacher, but part of me has always wanted to teach, even when it wasn't a "logical" thing to do.
I know some people who majored in elementary education because it was "easy" but so many more who could have done other things but wanted or needed to teach.
Divorce is probably the main culprit for children's poor performance. I know several boys who needed to be left back because they were emotionally devastated by their parents' divorce.
Yes, I've seen that as well. A couple really stand out in my mind. Gifted children, but they just quit, because they were so emotionally bereft.
I assume, as in some private companies, there is little preparation for leadership given to teachers who wish to become administrators.
In my state, they are required to have a degree or certificate in "leadership" but I'm not quite sure what that entails. I've always figured if I left the classroom I'd go back to industry, but I like being in the classroom. There's nothing quite like that "lightbulb" moment.
I think, though, that some - not all - of the teachers who end up in administration never liked or were never good at teaching to begin with.
As an aside, it would be fun to start a thread celebrating great teachers who changed the way we see the world.
You know, I had so many great teachers. I didn't like them all at the time, but most of my teachers were really good. I guess I was lucky.
Question and off subject, but you could do me a favor. What do the * * around the words think mean. I've seen these a bunch of times but never picked up on what they mean. Thanks.
Wow, I don't see how it should be any other way. It seems like the more reasonable and applicable barometer. We really are of different minds on this. So far apart, I think, that we can never come to agreement.
And this one is the same
These are from the school cafeteria. I don't understand them but the teachers on here should be able to explain. Please do.
Extra emphasis. Easier than italicizing, for the lazy. ;-)
Too funny!
But you're right, it's not as easy as it looks -- or at least, it wasn't for me.
I've never seen signs that said "Survive the test". We do encourage students to eat a good breakfast & get plenty of sleep the night before.
The students at the school where I teach have 2 kinds of standardized tests: the state graduation tests, and state-developed & graded end-of-course-tests. If they don't pass the former, they don't get a diploma (with certain limited exceptions). By law in our state, the latter are counted as 15% of the semester grade. So, for both tests, it's in the student's interest to do well.
Since NCLB, our school is graded on student performance on the tests and also on how many students are present for the test (apparently some schools used to encourage lower-performing students to stay home on test day to make their average scores higher).
You never did address this part of my post. Any ideas?
Many public school teachers also teach because they love it, and not because of the money.
But you assume that all private schools are high quality, and they aren't. You also assume that all private school teachers are of high quality, and they aren't.
But if we base this discussion on your assumptions that private school teachers are intelligent and motivated, but public school teachers are neither, WHY can private schools attract intelligent, capable individuals when public schools cannot?
Now that is an interesting guess. Can't say it is wrong. I just had not made that connection. Sure would be nice if that is what is was. Otherwise to me it sounds, well, less than inspiring.
The pictures are recent. The posters are hanging on the cafeteria wall as I write this.
Sounds less than inspiring to me, too, but I'm not a "Survivor" fan anyway. However, I hear several of the teachers discussing "Survivor", "Lost" and similar shows frequently, so I think there are a lot of fans out there.
Did you take the pictures? Maybe you could ask someone at the school?
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