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originally posted in: Our teachers are to blame!
9/21/2016 11:23:14 PM
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I can fix this problem. STOP PAYING ATHLETES MILLIONS AND GIVE TEACHERS ENOUGH MONEY TO SUPPORT THEMSELVES. It's that simple. If we can incentivise teachers, it's a win win. My grandma was a teacher and now subs. She says she does not and will not force students to do work because she isn't payed enough to do that. She has been hurt 3 times as a teacher including broken shoulder, broken leg, and broken arm and nearly died last year. Ya think she needs more money? I do too.
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  • Edited by Stupendous finn: 9/22/2016 1:30:27 AM
    On average, unless they teach preschool, teachers do make decent money, especially for only working 3/4 of a year. The median teacher salary nationally is like fifty to sixty thousand. In my area, that fifty to sixty thousand is the starting salary of teachers. Most teachers here make well over 80k a year after several years in the field, and there's quite a few who are making around 120k. Of course teacher salary has a lot of variability, but that's mostly dependent on the location, and the cost of living and wealth in that location. Most teachers should easily be able to live at least somewhat comfortably. And of course your grandma doesn't make a whole lot of money; she's subbing now.

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  • In Texas teachers barely make enough to support a family. They are expected to deal with spoiled kids whose parent don't discipline them so they are rude to their teachers. Teachers are expected to teach the class, but when the kids aren't trying to learn the teachers are blamed. Considering my parents are split apart that means the tiny teacher salary she receives has to pay for 3 kids, bills, food, and even more insurance because I just started driving. I recently got a job but my $8 am hour job doesn't help to make quite a big dent as I hoped it would.

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  • I looked it up and the average teacher salary in Texas is about $48,000, which is below average as far as teaching salaries go, sure, but it's still not far below the median household income in Texas of $53,000. For a career that works 35 hour work weeks (plus some odd hours for grading tests and whatnot) and only works 190 days per year, I don't see $48,000 as a all that bad a salary. If extra money is needed, there's ample time to work another job as a teacher compared to how much time you would have with any other full time job. A single mom with three kids isn't really the typical family unit either. Single parents are always going to have a tougher time than two parents, especially with three kids. It's unfortunate, but that's just how it is, and salaries aren't paid with single parent and three kid households in mind.

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  • Most teachers take work home and have to do even more work. She also has training during summer.

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  • No, she retired and that's why she is subbing, she still needs some money to spoil us. But anyway, in Oklahoma, the teacher salary is 30,000 $ at the lowest lvl of experience and 40,000 at the highest. And in Oklahoma, It's really hard to survive off that.

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  • Where the hell do [i]you[/i] go to school?

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  • I'd tell you, but lemme just say, it's shady.

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  • Edited by Stupendous finn: 9/22/2016 1:59:18 AM
    Upper middle class is generally loosely defined as having a household income of of at least $100,000, so I apparently live in an area that's a bit below upper middle class at a median household income of around $80,000. My high school is in an area with a median household income slightly under $100,000. I live in the Northwest Chicago suburbs, which, granted, is where the top 25 highest paying Illinois school districts are concentrated, so teacher salaries here are a bit higher than normal, but overall, teachers are still paid decently enough elsewhere.

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  • Dude, they get paid absolute shit in Massachusetts

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  • Edited by Stupendous finn: 9/22/2016 2:47:52 AM
    [url=http://profiles.doe.mass.edu/state_report/teachersalaries.aspx]The pay seems fine to me.[/url] I'm not sure how exactly the the relationship between teacher salary and the cost of living is in MA, but they make more than the national average. The median is apparently around 70k, which is pretty good. Massachusetts does have a higher cost of living though, so I imagine that 70k doesn't go quite as far as it would elsewhere, but it doesn't seem awful by any means.

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