My mother is a teacher at a private school and she works year round 10 to 12 hour days. She’s Ivy League educated and they don’t pay her 1/3 of the time she puts into the job. She’s not part of a union. She works her ass off and loves her kids but they just don’t pay her enough and don’t even come close to covering how much time she puts into her lesson planning. Not all teachers are the same or are in a comfy public school job.
Starting salary for teachers in Chicago is a shade under 59k. 95k is after 20 years of teaching-- not sure why everyone thinks teachers make "bank". They don't. And the benefits are great if you're single- once you add family members it is as expensive as insurance gets.
Starting salary in Texas is 50k plus depending on the district and the salaries don't rise very much- a few hundred bucks a year. The teacher's unions in Texas are in name only and it's fairly easy to fire teachers.
Teachers don't get the whole Summer off-- there are in-services and continuing education that are mandatory. Some of those in-services are 3 weeks long- 8am-5pm. They're often unpaid or a small stipend is given.
And as I always ask, "if teaching pays so great and it's so easy, why doesn't everyone do it?"
Jobs are not paid due to their ease but rather to their value.
This. And given that public school teachers make almost 15k/yr more than private school teachers, their "value" is artificially inflated simply due to the fact that they are paid by the government.
This idiot that replied to you thinks that Scot Peterson, the deputy at Parkland who hid while Nickolas Cruz shot up the school, did nothing wrong, that he was too old and ill equipped to engage a school shooter. I'd advise you to hit block and save yourself the time.
Substitute teaching was a joke for teachers in my area, all because they offered qualified teachers almost no additional pay over non-qualified individuals when it came to the job, and you also had such little authority or respect as compared to a full-time teacher. As a student I loved most of our substitutes, but they certainly weren't treated well enough.
My mother is a teacher at a private school and she works year round 10 to 12 hour days. She’s Ivy League educated and they don’t pay her 1/3 of the time she puts into the job. She’s not part of a union. She works her ass off and loves her kids but they just don’t pay her enough and don’t even come close to covering how much time she puts into her lesson planning. Not all teachers are the same or are in a comfy public school job.
Honestly, the only place where teachers make great pay is where they have strong unions, and that's just a fact. New York is another example.
Starting salary for teachers in Chicago is a shade under 59k. 95k is after 20 years of teaching-- not sure why everyone thinks teachers make "bank". They don't. And the benefits are great if you're single- once you add family members it is as expensive as insurance gets.
Starting salary in Texas is 50k plus depending on the district and the salaries don't rise very much- a few hundred bucks a year. The teacher's unions in Texas are in name only and it's fairly easy to fire teachers.
Teachers don't get the whole Summer off-- there are in-services and continuing education that are mandatory. Some of those in-services are 3 weeks long- 8am-5pm. They're often unpaid or a small stipend is given.
And as I always ask, "if teaching pays so great and it's so easy, why doesn't everyone do it?"
This. And given that public school teachers make almost 15k/yr more than private school teachers, their "value" is artificially inflated simply due to the fact that they are paid by the government.
This idiot that replied to you thinks that Scot Peterson, the deputy at Parkland who hid while Nickolas Cruz shot up the school, did nothing wrong, that he was too old and ill equipped to engage a school shooter. I'd advise you to hit block and save yourself the time.
Substitute teaching was a joke for teachers in my area, all because they offered qualified teachers almost no additional pay over non-qualified individuals when it came to the job, and you also had such little authority or respect as compared to a full-time teacher. As a student I loved most of our substitutes, but they certainly weren't treated well enough.