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that's just not true. The historical vision of teacher
compensation is Texas was to start the entry level scale at
around $25,000 with teachers capping at $50,000-$55,000,
essentially going up $1,000 per year of service. What happened
was that teacher colleges could not get enough students as
growth in non-traditional professions pulled woman from
traditional female dominated professions (nursing, teaching,
clerical, etc). This created a shortage of teachers particurly
is hard sciences and mathematics. To increase enrollment, and
increase the supply of teachers salaries were increase but
instead of shifting the whole pay scale up, all they did was
lift the bottom of the scale. The rational was that there was
little reason to incentivize long time veteran teachers. These
career educators were too close to collecting pensions and
weren't really marketable outside education. The result was
Alternative certification programs, which created a saturated
market for teachers, then the housing bubble collapsed, and a
recession.

I want more money, too, I dont know a teacher who doesnt think
they get paid enough, but your estimation of your value is just
ego bias. If you were really worth $70,000 you could command
that salary, but you can't because there are people who will do
your job for less. Thats how supply and demand works.

On 11/16/14, To PsyGuy wrote:
> The ENTRY level teachers are NOT overcompensated in the least
bit
> for $40K annual salary. The veteran teachers with 10+ or more
> years are underpaid within $2K of their new hires - their
salary
> should be least $70K or more in ALL states for the years spent
in
> education. The government got money - so pay the veteran
teachers
> for their service instead of giving money to C-scope.

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