Posted on 05/30/2012 8:23:33 AM PDT by MichCapCon
Rockford Public School high school teacher Craig Beach wrote a column for MLive in which he alleged that Republican lawmakers are ruining the teaching profession and talked about a colleagues daughters views on teacher pay.
Beach quoted the young woman criticizing the teaching professions extremely low pay with I want to eat and have a life.
The article quotes the young woman as saying: Mom, I know what goes into the profession. You demonstrate the many hours put in after leaving school, the stress, the lack of respect and now extremely low pay. I want to eat and have a life. I am not ready to invest another $20,000 to make what you do."
A first-year teacher at Rockford with a bachelors degree would have a starting salary of $37,184 and that would bump up to $40,537 with a masters degree.
According to PayScale.coms 2011-12 annual survey of undergrad college degrees starting median salaries, that first-year Rockford teaching salary is on par with degrees in advertising ($37,700), biology ($37,900) and human resources ($37,900). The Rockford first-year salary is better than the median starting salaries for degrees in fashion design ($36,300), health care administration ($36,700), hotel management ($36,100) and public relations ($35,500).
And that first-year teacher wouldnt stay at that starting salary for long. The average teachers salary in the Rockford School District was $62,351 in 2010-11, according to the Michigan Department of Education.
Leon Drolet, president of the Michigan Taxpayers Alliance, said he agreed that the young woman Beach highlighted would not be right for the teaching profession.
She should not be hired (to be a teacher), Drolet said. She should take a job where she can eat and live and let someone else who can eat and live on $50,000 and $60,000 a year who is eager to do that job at that salary. I would be interested to find where those places are. If they know of a secret place that gives them more pay, gives them better benefits and gives them more time off, they should go there and let people who are interested and passionate about teaching have those jobs. Let them go to their secret, mythical place.
Beach didnt respond to a request sent to his school email address seeking comment.
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The problem is the administrators making $120,000 to $180,000 a year. Teachers starting at $35,000 to $40,000 is certainly not rich but if they are expecting to start at $60,000 to $80,000, they need to find some other line of work.
The next week, she was in the little Catholic School. Her bros were right behind her.
35,000-40,000 a year to start.
Hmm.. What about the 20,000 a year in benefits?
Get rid of mandatory union dues and pay part of health insurance and retirement and that number could go up by 5-10,000 a year.
Poor starvin teachers will be forced to eat cat food.
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Oh, BOO FREAKING HOO.
I started as a 1st year in Mississippi at 28K with $500 a month in medical premiums.
That’s right, $1600 a month, with a stay at home wife working part time.
And, even if you are a truly lousy teacher, you can never be fired. But, yeah, keep complaining about how $30,000 plus for a yearly salary, plus medical benefits and paid vacation and holidays, is going to leave you starving.
I dunno...what’s the proper pay scale for professional indoctrinators?
Rockford is a small town about half an hour north of Grand Rapids.
I am sure there are many residents who somehow manage to live out their lives there on less than what the teachers are earning.
>>And, even if you are a truly lousy teacher, you can never be fired.
In a state with a teacher’s union. A non-union state can fire anyone easily for the first three years after three warnings are accrued.
The problem is single mothers. Teaching was traditionally done by females with a husband who also had income. Married women brought stability to the classroom and that is no longer allowed in the liberal agenda.
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I and my parents pit a ton of money into my education, and I have practiced law now for a little over six years.
Two of those years I was a prosecutor and my salary started at 45k and ended up at 50k.
I didn’t whine about it. I took the experience and went into private practice.
Now I’m doing pretty well.
One shouldn’t get all the benefits of a government job and simultaneously demand better pay than the private sector.
“Those who can-do, those who can’t-teach” Mencken
In other words, pretty good money for those who can’t
They are correct when they say people perceive edukators as overworked and underpaid. You cannot argue that they are wrong.
The issue as framed by these people is not the ACTUAL pay and benefits. It is the PERCEIVED pay and benefits framed against the “SACRIFICE” of being a EDUKATOR.
Of course they believe more pay will correct the perception but I say lets just correct the perception by revealing the truth.
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