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I have no issue paying a qualified and effective teacher well. They are worth it.
I do have an issue with tenure. I think we all had teachers who just weren't worth the air they breathed. For example. My school had Gym teachers who aside from gym were often Drivers Ed teachers or health teachers. They were also coaches. Maybe half of them bothered to have us open a textbook. In my opinion they weren't worth half their pay.
I had a history teacher whose claim to fame is that he fought in WWII. Never opened a book in his class either and no we didn't study history either. Tenure made him all but impossible to fire.
The benefit packages. As civil servants their packages should represent those of the people paying their salaries. That is an issue I have with all public servants including our elected reps.
Sorry for the typos in the title... SNF and typing don't mix
I just found out my Aunt, a teacher of 25 years and who works for a rather small PSS (under 1200 teachers) in SoCal, has a base pay of $86,000 + $22,000 in benefits. She teaches a class of first graders, and has an assistant. She is in her seventies and refuses to retire until she maxes her retirement to 80-85% of full pay.
Is this underpaid?
There's all kinds of teachers. I work in a relief program. But I'm a teacher. Do I rate? At l6.00 an hour?
Here in Missouri, my daughter worked her way through college, got her teacher's certificate and then decided that she couldn't afford the pay cut. She was an assistant manager at a Burger King, it paid much more.
What I've heard was that high school teachers' salaries are higher than college professors. Is that true? Are elementary school teachers paid even more than high school teachers?
I have no issue paying a qualified and effective teacher well. They are worth it.
I do have an issue with tenure. I think we all had teachers who just weren't worth the air they breathed. For example. My school had Gym teachers who aside from gym were often Drivers Ed teachers or health teachers. They were also coaches. Maybe half of them bothered to have us open a textbook. In my opinion they weren't worth half their pay.
I had a history teacher whose claim to fame is that he fought in WWII. Never opened a book in his class either and no we didn't study history either. Tenure made him all but impossible to fire.
The benefit packages. As civil servants their packages should represent those of the people paying their salaries. That is an issue I have with all public servants including our elected reps.
As a retired school principal, I have to tell you that tenure in most public school systems is nearly a moot point. It is not that difficult to build a case, and follow protocol, to get a teacher fired for just cause. Been there, done that...more than once.
Tenure is far more of an issue in colleges.
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