Posted on 05/15/2018 8:58:34 AM PDT by EinNYC
Nearly all public school teachers report digging into their pockets to pay for school supplies, spending nearly $480 a year, far more than the federal $250 tax deduction available to teachers.
The findings by the National Center of Education Statistics released Tuesday come as teachers across the country are walking out of classrooms to protest low pay and demand pay raises. Helping teachers pay for class supplies was a key demand during the Arizona teachers’ strike.
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Word got out and welders were never in short supply on our ship. Used to bet the CO I could get something fixed over the weekend - only caveat was he had to provide cover fire and he couldn’t ask any questions. Everybody was happy.
That is actually a great point.
An admin assistant (secretary) could spend that in a year on pantyhose.
Because some bizarre new cult of teacher worship has developed.
Instead of just lambasting everyone in the profession, we should try to recruit more conservatives to become teachers instead of driving them away. That way the kids wouldn't be brain washed with liberalism.
You never answered the question of whether you watch professional athletes who play in tax payer subsidized playpens....
Not a sports geek. See the tagline.
Here in NJ our teachers are among the highest paid in the country - and our students are ignorant and uneducated. I guess the droves of taxpayers and employers fleeing this legalized theft by teachers’ unions are all wrong...
In which school district do you collect your pay?
How many people do you know that pull in $50K-$82K working 180 six and a half hour days?
I live in Texas, we don’t have unions.
Do you work 180 6.5 hour days?
Around here, a teacher is on campus nine hours plus whatever time is spent preparing for the next day at home. The contract year is around 200 days plus continuing education hours and any necessary workshops or conferences during the summer.
My plumber pulled in $1000.00 for four hours work. There are plenty of jobs that pay better than teaching.
Aided and abetted by the corrupt union loving liberal media. The fact is that public schools are a colossal failure and teachers keep their mouths shut because of the union provided gravy train especially around DB retirement plan. It's become the third rail of politics, I'm not sure Betsy is up to the job as the system needs to be blown up.
Then please explain this: No, unions are not ‘illegal’ in Texas And yes, we’re a union . From the arti cle: "the Texas State Teachers Association, which is affiliated with the National Education Association. And it embraces the union label. (Although not quite as much as Texas AFT!)"
In New York those figures are low. And they retire at 55 with inflation adjusted pensions approaching 60k/ yr with almost fully subsided healthcare (which equates to about another 8-10k)
In Texas there is no collective bargaining, no right to strike and are teachers not required to join any association. There are a couple of these associations which would probably like to act as unions but don’t have any union powers.
Your plumber has voluntarily customers; more and more of those paying teachers have no children at all. I’m in NJ and live near a school; at 3:00:01 there is a mad stampede as the teachers bolt to their cars. As for “working at home”, I know enough teachers to know that’s total BS - if it can’t be verified (by remote login, etc.) it is an outright lie - based on the lack of results among other things. Our students go to school 180 days per year.
I’m sure; these figures are even low here in NJ.
Anyway, the taxpayers have had enough (in both areas), and are voting with their feet. The foreigners who fill the schools with their kids can pay for them; those children are the primary reason the borders are left open.
Well I can’t vouch for New Jersey. The Northeast seems to have succumbed to the cancer of liberalism which has infected and is destroying all the country’s institutions. We may have a short reprieve with Pres. Trump but I don’t think he can change it all by himself.
We had the same experience with Chris Christie - he couldn’t fix it alone. It isn’t “liberalism” in the northeast as much as it is a political scene dominated by public workers’ unions. The nanny-state mentality is now ingrained in the culture here; the government bureaucracy is huge, and both those getting paychecks and those getting freebies vote to grow it even more.
Women still wear pantyhose? That is news
I wondered the same thing. I looked it up and apparently, in a professional setting, yeah, they still might. Some say yes, some say no depending on the setting.
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