Web site to reveal salaries (teachers' salaries)

Times Leader ^ | 1/22/2005 | BONNIE ADAMS

[Amelia]

You have entirely missed the point of my post. It was not a complaint about my own situation. It was to point out the detached reality that teachers live in.

Most non-teachers have a "detached reality" of what it is to be a teacher. They imagine a teacher sitting behind a desk with her feet propped up doing nothing for 6 hours a day, 190 days per year, while 30 happy children quietly do their work.

Teachers in well-to-do northeastern suburbs might make salaries near $100K, but most of us in the rest of the country don't. Many of us don't make half that.

I'd love to see market forces at work in education, however...those of us with science and math degrees would make a lot more money!