Posted on 01/22/2025 9:30:17 AM PST by massmike
BOSTON - There's a new push to establish a minimum salary for public school teachers and other educators in Massachusetts that would allow them to earn a living wage.
"An Act Relative To Educator Pay," backed by the Massachusetts Teachers Association, would guarantee a salary of $70,000 a year for teachers and $55,000 a year for education support professionals. The bill calls for another pay hike in 2030, at which time teachers would be paid $80,000 annually and support staff would get a raise to $65,000.
The term "education support professionals" includes classroom aides, custodians, cafeteria workers and bus drivers. The state would reimburse school districts for the added cost of higher salaries, the bill says.
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Have they dropped the requirement that all teachers be fire-breathing Leftists?
Below $70,000 is poverty in Massachusetts???? Or is this just a sop to the teachers' union dressed up as justice for teachers? (I already know the answer . . . .)
I would not take ten times that to teach in a school, public or private.
College maybe, as long as I had defensive weaponry. Pepper spray, taser, gun. Oh, and all the students would have to wear electronic collars, voice-activated.
I might also need a y-chrom security guard with a bad attitude.
Then...maybe.
As far as I know just to live in MA you have to be a fire breathing leftist. Teachers have to be be the 90th percentile of that.
“Teachers would be paid a minimum salary of $70,000 in Massachusetts if bill becomes law”
It’s called “Pay for Performance” and the teachers are doing a GREAT JOB*, as shown by comparisons between the US and other countries.
*Great job by Democrat standards, that is
The living wage thing, may be based on the cost of living, which is high in Mass.
I’m sure it’s quite difficult to buy a house in the Boston area with a $70k salary, and to get a mortgage. for example.
I have no issue with this, most teachers are way underpaid. But make sure they are REAL teachers actually teaching something beyond how to be a fag
don’t they make that now??
I doubt it.
I was wondering that too.
Years ago I looked at a website that told you how much you would have to make in any given location to have the same standard of living where you are.
I keyed in Boston and my salary would have to be close to $300k to match my salary in the ghetto where I live.
That is great pay for a job which requires no innovation, not 1/10 as difficult as engineering or medicine, and teach the same simple stuff year after year.
I still remember stuff from junior high. Like how to write a check,proper way to write a letter,science class lessons,writing and reading cursive,spelling,etc. This was circa 1972. One day in school the teacher showed us his paycheck stub. He had cleared 160 dollars for the week. We learned a lot more for a lot less money.
They’re effectively paid a lot more when accounting for their benefits, pensions, and actual days on the job
I guess if Harvard can pay one Massachusetts nutty college perfeser $400,000 a year to “teach” one class, this would be just about right.
And there is the pension issue...
Bet nobody’s talking about that, though.
In my neck of the woods, teachers have access to better health insurance plans than even the very large private sector employers provide.
From this link...
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/MA/INC110223
Per capita income in past 12 months (in 2023 dollars), 2019-2023 $56,284
This will not end well.
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