[PapaBear3625]

I am always amazed at these type of stories. The people who write them seem to think that a young 20 something kid, right out of college, who has never actually taught for a living, should be at the same pay scale as someone who has put in 20 years or so. It is ridiculous. No one does that. You start at the low end of the pay scale. That is why they call it a pay scale. As you gain more experience, you gain steps up the pay scale.

The real purpose of this is to argue for raising the starting salary, SO THAT the unions can raise ALL salaries in the pay scale by the same percentage.

Hardly anybody gets a starting salary that will support a family. Teaching is no exception. She should live frugally until she gets her first two years of experience.

In NYC, teachers advance two salary steps per year, according to a salary schedule that has a new teacher with her Bachelors degree making $45K. After four years and getting her masters, that jumps to $56, finally topping out at 100K

[sauropod]

After four years and getting her masters, that jumps to $56, finally topping out at 100K

After how many years?

Do you understand how much $$ it takes to live in NYC or across the river in NJ?

[Tublecane]

“The real purpose of this is to argue for raising the starting salary, SO THAT the unions can raise ALL salaries in the pay scale by the same percentage”

Exactly. “For the children” is the oldest ploy in the book, and it may be the death of us.