Strange, my wife is a teacher (junior high special education), and she works 10 hours a day, for 9 months a year (approximately 40 weeks). That comes to 2000 hours a year. She makes about $19.00 an hour (rounding UP).
Strange, my wife is a teacher (junior high special education), and she works 10 hours a day, for 9 months a year (approximately 40 weeks). That comes to 2000 hours a year. She makes about $19.00 an hour (rounding UP).
Even in the rural areas of PA teachers start out at least double that.
"Strange, my wife is a teacher (junior high special education), and she works 10 hours a day, for 9 months a year (approximately 40 weeks). That comes to 2000 hours a year. She makes about $19.00 an hour (rounding UP). "
Your figures are much more accurate. I often put in 16 hour days myself.
But then, it's not the money that I do it for, it's those 20 bright shiny faces I get to see each day. They're doing pretty well this year. Even the lowest of my first graders can write out compositions, know the different sentence endings, know what proper nouns are and how to distinguish them in a sentence, the difference betweeen to/too/two, and so on. They're about 70% accurate with nouns, verbs, and adjectives so we'll get there. :)
She has my sympathy. She must be an exceptional person. I've taught emotionally disturbed children. To be able to teach them for 19 years and maintain your sanity is truly exceptional. She should be paid double. Teaching today is bad enough, but to teach those children takes an extraordinary human being. God Bless her.