I heard on the radio this morning that teachers in Houston ISD start at 42k on average, and that's just for 9 months a year! I'd love to be making that! 
Why are teachers always complaining about being low paid?
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42k isn't that much for the amount of crap you have to put up with from annoying kids. Especially if you are working in an inner city school with our wonderful youth.
You have to remember the fact they work from 7 to like 5 somtimes later. Then they probably read over 1-2k plus.
eh, the inner city teachers aside, I think they make a fair salary for the job they do.
They deserve extra pay for being literate?
And to think that I read for fun...whom do I bill?
Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
I heard on the radio this morning that teachers in Houston ISD start at 42k on average, and that's just for 9 months a year! I'd love to be making that!
If you made that much year round it would come out to 56k a year
RaistlinZ
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You're thinking that they work from 8am-3pm and that's it. Wrong. They put in hours outside of the classroom everyday getting ready for the next days lessons. Not to mention grading tests, reports, quizzes, etc once they get home.
And I doubt most teachers sit on their assess all summer either. They're probably either teaching a summer course or two, or taking classes and refresher courses themselves. Considering the hours they put in outside of the classroom and the amount of crap they have to put up with, $42,000/yr is nothing IMO.
And I doubt most teachers sit on their assess all summer either. They're probably either teaching a summer course or two, or taking classes and refresher courses themselves. Considering the hours they put in outside of the classroom and the amount of crap they have to put up with, $42,000/yr is nothing IMO.
If they are teaching summer classes which only very few do, then they get paid. If they are taking courses/refresher courses then they are doing so for free because its included in the great benefits package. They have around 10 weeks off in the summer, 1.5 weeks off during Christmas, another week off in February, and another week off for spring break. I don't even want to get into the benefits they get because they are the awesome.
as they they they dont deserve to be paid that low. They think they're too smart for the money...
Capt Caveman
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They don't get paid enough for the work and responsibility they have. My friend is an high school english teacher. After working a 40+ hour week, they still need to meet with parents, grade 100+ papers x 15 minutes every other week or so, put together courses, tests, etc. Add up the hours, they're putting in more than what most people work in a full year in 9 months.
Saying they get that time off is a bit misleading, most teachers are working (grading, planning lessons, etc.) over those breaks. Imagine an English teacher with 3 classes of 30 students each (two very conservative estimates), they assign an essay to be due the Friday before Christmas Break, they now have 90 essays to grade over their "time off" not exactly the most relaxing thing.
Exactly. And given the results (i.e. test scores of kids coming out of these schools), I think teachers aren't getting paid anywhere near enough.
well it takes a while to repay college loans for a good teacher.
It's got it's perks...but man it's got it's sh1ts.
It's got it's perks...but man it's got it's sh1ts.
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Well said, sir.
One of my high school teachers ranted about this same thing in class. He claimed that what teachers make is "one step above the poverty line." He argued that since teachers aren't paid enough, really talented individuals who would make great teachers go into other fields. This leaves the jobs to be filled by people who are second-rate and do not perform as well as the more talented individuals would. This results in the detriment of students' educations. Ergo, paying teachers 80k+ would result in more talented individuals becoming teachers, which in turn would result in better educations for children.
I'm not sure if I agree with his logic, but I do feel teachers should be paid more. My mother has been an elementary school teacher in a city for 25 years and makes close to 90k now working from 7 to 4. She usually teaches summer school too, which gives her about another 8k (not sure how much exactly). She doesn't complain about being underpaid.
Really, because I haven't seen it. I work in a job that is tied to the oil industry, and my benefits are a damn site better than what my wife gets.
She is a 5th grade teacher and I know the kind of kids she puts up with on a daily basis. I couldn't do her job for a week, much less for an entire school year.
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