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Wake Up People!!!!! We, as teachers, think of ourselves as professionals; when, in reality, we are merely hired help. Despite salary gains over the past 40 years ( I started at $5300 for 10 months and worked jobs over the summer ) we continue to compare ourselves to private sector occupations with the same level of education. With this poor economy, we sometimes forget the people who merely have minimum wage jobs to support themselves and their families. We will never have the prestige of the over priced _________ ( fill in the blank

with your own favorite cast of the evil empire ... see CEO's ) or the power of politicians ( with union membership dropping) so get use to having a target on your back. Just like that English teacher said at the graduation exercise, .." we are nothing special..." With the greed is good attitude of the seventies and the F*** the public attitude of government in the 80's, our prestige and influence has never been lower. We are still working class p...See More
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Sally I have been a public school teacher for 37 years in CA where living costs and housing are high, but no teacher in my district makes a salary of $100,000. Only the high school principals and highest level D.O. administrators make that much. I fail to see why teaching would not be considered a real job. To me, it is, and I take my job very seriously,...See More
Nov 8, 2012
waaa waa waa When the teachers in IL were threatening to strike over wages they listed the wages of every single teacher and their pay. I started counting the ones over 100K when I reached a 125 and had pages of names to go. They topped out at 147K other than one for 193K but I wrote that off as an error.

Teachers as well as most other government jobs ...See More
Dec 13, 2012
Broke FL Teacher On 6/15/12, Teacher wrote: > Most people are screaming to cut our pay because we are indeed > overpaid for the amount of time we actually work. We may be > physically in the classroom for 7 hours but how many of those > hours are actually teaching. Really! We actually teach maybe > 240 minutes per day which is 4 hours. Many times the...See More
Feb 2, 2013
Broke FL Teacher On 12/13/12, waaa waa waa wrote: > When the teachers in IL were threatening to strike over wages they > listed the wages of every single teacher and their pay. I started > counting the ones over 100K when I reached a 125 and had pages of > names to go. They topped out at 147K other than one for 193K but I > wrote that off as an error...See More
Feb 2, 2013
AM C level professionals are the ones taking from everyone including ALL other professions whose status as well as pay has dropped dramatically. We don't have the tax money to pay you as we no longer pay the income taxes we used to.

Doctors you say? I wouldn't put teachers on a doctors level at all but that is besides the point. Doctors inco...See More
Jul 11, 2013


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