Posted on 10/03/2008 9:04:25 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Souderton's teacher union is proposing increasing starting salaries from $37,323 to $43,102 over four years, an increase of 15 percent, according to the Souderton Area Education Association's final best offer released Tuesday ---snip---
But few teachers are at that starting level — 145 of Souderton's 512 teachers are at the top of the salary schedule. The top step is for teachers with more than 15 years of service and a master's degree plus 24 or more additional credits.
They now earn $89,363 and would earn $100,750 after the fourth year of the contract, according to the union's proposal. That works out to an $11,387 increase — about a 13 percent hike
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I’m sorry, but an “education” degree NEVER quallifies for that sort of salary. It’s simply not an education. Period.
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a $100K+ for 9 months of work. Sign me up.
Sorry, but this issue frosts my knickers.
Pretty good for barely 9 months of work and holiday weeks/days plus better health care coverage than I have now. Where do I sign?
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Hey, I live in Central Bucks where the teachers already make that much. I pay $900 a month in property taxes.
Some, not from this area, might be interested to learn that
these teachers are some of the LOWEST paid teachers in the Philly suburbs. Not to mention that these same teachers enjoy benefits and a retirement that are far superior to most in the private sector. It is OUT OF CONTROL.
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There’s good money in teaching these days.
The unions have done a heckuva job selling the false impression that teachers are “underpaid”.
My daughter started right out of college (bachelor deg) close to 40gs - here in the midwest that’s decent money for 9 months. Add in some tutoring bucks from summer and she’s north of 50.
I live in Central Bucks, too. Many years ago, a principal at a Central Bucks school told my education class that after ten years with a master’s degree, teacher’s make 90K. That’s gone way up since then. My husband has a Ph.D. and teaches college, was a dept. chair for decades. He doesn’t make this much money. Teacher’s salaries here are really high, although not as high as NJ.
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I almost spit out my coke when I read the supposed teacher salary for Souderton! We lived very near there and had teachers in our school who were making over 100K - and for kindergarten..... teaching is a great profession in Bucks County - and explained why some teachers drove over an hour each way to work there.
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That’s a pretty good gig for working 6 hours a day 9 months per year (1080 hours). We can gross that up for comparison to a standard 40 hour week and 50 week year (don’t know how many people only work 40 hours anymore, but I’ll use it anyway - 2000 hours.) Based on that math, the starting pay is comparable to $79,819 per year for a more standard work schedule. Add in an extraordinary benefit package, an virtually nonexistant chance of getting fired for poor performance and a 1950’s style pension for life and that makes a pretty compelling offer. Shouldn’t have trouble finding applicants.
Dude! Sigh me up too! I don’t even make half of that salary - and I’ve been teaching for over 10 years - plus I work 10 months of the year.
I’m a product of the Central Bucks HS system, now the HS is CB West.
In the ‘50s the social studies teachers were so poorly paid that they took up a table at a local tavern playing cards and nursing a nickel beer until someone with a real job bought a round for the house. Then they could have another. Couldn’t be thrown out.
When the state failed to bust the illegal teacher’s union in the late ‘60s, early ‘70s they got a raise. Their response, more pay less work.
I got in trouble because I ridiculed the teachers for going to the local Firestone dealer for their 5% teacher discount. Their tires were more expensive, their front end alignment was more expensive than where I had my first job as a kid. Their front end guy who did alignments brought his own car to us for alignment. Small town, his brother went to the same HS.
10 days sick leave, you can bet they used 9 1/2. And the school year was 182 days. Let see, that’s out sick about 5% of the time.
The principal at CBW was David Spahr, shaker from Nebraska and hopefully long gone from this planet. They decided to hire a third principal and rotate them between the Admin building, West and LEast. First guy rotated to the Admin building, Sparhky.
Had a boss (we fired him) whose wife went from special ed teacher to teaching six grade math in the Neshaminy system down in lower Bucks. She made 82K/yr back in ‘94. She used to bring the questions her students asked home to her husband and get back to the kids with the answer the next day. Only took her 1 1/2 years to actually be able to answer the questions herself. Her husband told me this story more than once.
Almost met her, they stopped by the workplace but he made her stay in the car.
At least CBW used to have a good football team, but since CB South is there it sounds like they lost all their best players.
I’m just glad I graduated before they came thru and re-evaluated the school system. Think major downgrade.
If I gave my teacher’s grades they wouldn’t have been good with a small handful of exceptions.
Actually, I’m surprised to hear you say what you do about the teachers here. Since I’m taking education classes (and in contrast to what a lot of Freepers think of such classes, mine have mostly all been excellent), I’ve visited a lot of Bucks Co classrooms. Yes, I’ve seen some mediocre teachers and one very bad one. But overall, I’ve been surprisingly impressed. However, instead of sending my own daughter to CBW, I sent her north to Plumstead.
I have just learned that to become a social studies teacher (probably any type of teacher) in CBSD, you basically get hired as a substitute the first year and during the first semester you teach, a principal will be in the classroom observing you at least twice a week. You don’t get a contract until after the first or second year you are there (I forget which). If you are not a good teacher, you get fired before you get a contract.
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