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Originally Posted by aegyptos  $40K for nine months and great benefits? They aren't underpaid. |
And who makes $40K anyway? In California, they start around $43K and within a few years you are in the mid-50s.
BUT! Teachers are starting to lose those "great benefits" unbeknownstto most people.
Medical Ins. is no longer paid for, in fact, many teachers no longer have medical because it is too expensive.
Paid Time off has been drastically reduced...
"No Child Left Behind" and the idiotic people behind it are creating more and more work for teachers. One year, we had numerous after school meetings in order to write reports and such... it was massive and not paid. People may say "waaa waaa" but those are just a couple of examples. Over crowded classes and underfunded budgets mean that teachers have to buy most of their supplies themselves and kids end up stealing or breaking most of that stuff anyway.
People that undervalue teachers are usually the idiots that don't actually get much, and they are easily identified in school by the very ones that they end up trying to put down. Ironic. Funny.
