Posted on 08/05/2011 8:30:43 AM PDT by SeanG200
Firstly, teachers ARE well paid:
$34.06 an Hour ~ That’s how much the average public school teachers makes. Is that “underpaid”?
Who, on average, is better paid–public school teachers or architects? How about teachers or economists? You might be surprised to learn that public school teachers are better paid than these and many other professionals. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, public school teachers earned $34.06 per hour in 2005, 36% more than the hourly wage of the average white-collar worker and 11% more than the average professional specialty or technical worker.
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Mr. Damon is simply passing on talking points probably heard from “memes.” A second point is that tenure is a huge part of the problem. A teacher reaches tenure after just two years of doing what, working. This should be based on how well they perform and have a go at tenure after say, 5 years with a two-year interim to try again.This will weed out bad teachers or teachers that may be predators of younger persons. You see, is a teacher is tenured after only two-years, when it comes to light that they may have some indecent relationships with students it is almost impossibly to fire them and they get moved from district to district before they are finally canned. Having a longer period of tenurship often times allows some committee that would tenure teachers more insight into the teachers character.
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High Paying State and Low Paying State Teacher pay, as mentioned earlier, varies a lot depending on which state you teach in. California ranks number 1 in teacher pay with an average pay of $63,640. South Dakota ranks number 50 in average teacher pay with an abysmal $35,378.
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Poor Matt Damon needs to stay out of the deep end.
In before the Team America references.
He didn’t school anyone on anything beyond schooling the world what a Liberal idiot sounds like.
The problem is, these days more young people get their world view from celebrities and shows like “The Daily Show.”
They probably shouldn’t have gone to save Private Ryan after all.....
Or to save Ryan's Privates.
The differential is staggering, isn’t it? We have tenure here in NC but its mostly a formality- they renew the contract unless the principal indicates there is a problem, and then it goes to a year-to-year thing, with a failure to “improve” being grounds for dismissal. I don’t make anything like those Yankee union teachers myself, and like you, I find their salaries quite remarkable. But when I think about what they have to put up with, I wouldn’t move there....
You want more money for teachers, get rid of 90% of school district employees...they wouldn’t even miss a beat.
Better that than school.
I bet that 35K in ND goes a lot farther than 63K in CA. I wouldn’t call 35k in ND abysmal, it seems like a fair wage for the job vs. cost of living.
Thanks for posting!
BTW, education is a joke because of the Howard Zinnian indoctrination forced into all public schools (Matt Damon is such a perfect example of falling for the Big Lie)—the teachers are tools—automatons, obamabots. They are most oblivious to the destruction they are causing with the “state created” (CAIR, Ayers, Dewey) curricula (BK EAKMAN). They are destroying the ability to use logic and reason (intentionally) in their students, since Dewey they destroyed the “old fashioned” Baconian/Newtonian design of true learning and logic.
But socialists want group thinkers...no individualists—no thinkers outside the box...you have to think one way......State knows best—never loving parents. Stranger’s worldview is better than teaching parent’s loyalty, honor, and duty to one another. State redirects those virtues to the state and away from family. Destroy individuality—anathema to communism.
They have been denied the tools for logic and reason (knowledge of the Classics and true history)—they were fed Postmodernism—moral relativism—where it all depends where is is.
There is no Truth in their godless world...just their “truth” which says all people who want to work with children are “good” and deserve more money than all farmers who only want to feed people. Hmmmmm.
They also think it is the duty of strangers to educate their children-—not the parents. People like Lincoln and TR Roosevelt and Carnegie had little “former” schooling and NEVER in their formative years when character was being formed, (character was formed by the family unit—not by strangers and the state where now no character really exists in our “mass of group thinkers”). (Note: cheaters—both teachers and students is rampant now. No integrity, no honor and no duty—ACORN workers....thugs who are just out to make a buck for themselves—they are worth it-—selfish me-first thinking—so they become wards of the state and dependent on state. No one wants to hire people like these, much less live with them.
“Their” truth and all Postmodernists claim to KNOW the TRUTH—that is the biggest arrogant flaw of all—Pride. (and the biggest sin).
—as Confucius and Socrates knew (and I am sure Matt is not wiser than those two) searching for truth never ends...human beings who are truly wise, understand how much they don’t understand. Learning should never end.
Another thing Confucius and Socrates understood-—You can NEVER separate private morality and private life from duty as a citizen and teaching is all about being moral guides.....hmmmmm (Wonder why Hey Ho, Western Civ had got to do—they want to abolish Morality—Truth, Duty, Wisdom, Conscience all subjects of the Classics)
Public schools have discarded morality from the curricula on purpose.....to create a communist (immoral, dysfunctional) state. Damon is a useful idiot and when they don’t need him to promote Zinneanism, he will be eliminated. Yuri B.—the ex-KGB agent on youtube explains this well.
Agreed my friend. There is not enough money to get me to move north.
Taxpayers’ “ability to pay” is another factor when considering the teacher pay differential between CA & SD.
Matt is an actor on the big screen, and he plays an idiot in real life!
Professor, in another you mentioned your wife works in New Orleans, below is the teacher salary average in LA. Take note this does not reflect what a teacher CAN make. I have a close friend here (SoCal) that teaches at a local high school, he also does summer school and does a few online classes for other adult ed. online courses. He makes WELL OVER $100,000 a year. (Take note there is a graph at the link below as well.)
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Louisiana teacher salaries have been steadily increasing over the period from 2007 to 2009. In 2007, the average teacher salary in Louisiana was $40,923.33. In 2008, Louisiana teacher salaries rose by 4.65 percent to $42,825. By 2009, teaching salaries in Louisiana rose to an average of $45,090, an increase of 5.29 percent.
Overall, the average teacher salary in Louisiana rose by 10.18 percent during the 2007 to 2009 period. This surpasses the national average growth of teacher salaries for the time period, which was 2.8 percent.
The rising average teaching salaries in Louisiana earned the state a similarly rising national ranking. In 2007, the teacher salaries in Louisiana reported earned the state a national rank of 42. In 2008, Louisiana earned the rank of 39th in the nation. 2009 teaching salaries in Louisiana garnered the state 36th place in the country, as seen in the Louisiana teacher salary schedule below:
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