Teaching jobs are quite coveted in my suburban neck of the woods here in NE FL. I know one guy who commutes from my neighborhood to the inner city to teach.
Governor DeSantis was on the radio today proposing a new starting teacher salary of $47k state wide. Not bad.
Not bad, unless you’re a taxpayer. Of course, pensions and cadillac health bennies are a far bigger problem for taxpayers. Funny how those never get figured in when calculating what teachers get.
Except that the starting salary of an engineer is $85K per year. Explain why technology graduates would flock to teaching jobs? Ah, now it becomes clear why the teacher shortage is for STEM.
Here in Canada the situation is strange. In BC the starting wage is $48,000 in the public system but $60,000 plus in neighbouring Alberta. Yet, there are more teachers than jobs in BC. Can’t make sense of it. The pay is crap yet people still go to school to train as teachers.