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To: patton
Locally 86% of the budget goes to salary and bennis - like $850 a month to pay for teacher insurance. I worked out a beginning teacher, 4 year liberal arts degree, 0 experience and likely 0 real life knowledge pulls in just under $30/hr. (8 hr/day, 182 days/working year)

That's not underpaid.
26 posted on 03/01/2007 1:04:19 PM PST by ASOC
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To: ASOC; leda

On the other hand, my wife (leda) has a MS in SpED, 15 years classroom experience, changes diapers on teanagers, etc., serves as a teacher consultant, works till 8 pm often, has had to deal with parents who send lawyers to parent teacher conferences, you name it.

She makes so little, it would shock you. For the DC area, if she were a single mother, she would be on food stamps.

It is not the teacher cost in our Ao, it is the dang overhead costs.

(VA has no collective bargaining for teachers.)

(And that is a good thing.)

Sooo...does our HS really need to offer golf lessons?

I see some things where we might say, "Yes, but..."

And that is the problem.

Nobody ever says, "We could do that, but do we want kindergarten to cost more than a year at harvard?"


27 posted on 03/01/2007 1:15:07 PM PST by patton (Sanctimony frequently reaps its own reward.)
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