I’m a teacher in Los Angeles and I have to agree: I have never complained about the pay. The expectations they have of us are ridiculous, and if I actually did everything they say I should be doing, I’d literally be working 80 hours a week (except in summer, when they actually do want us still working and training as much as possible, but they can’t force us). But I don’t complain about the pay. In fact, increasingly I’d take a cut in pay if they would lay off the pressure for me to perform miracles for 180 kids a year, put on a dazzling show every day, several times a day, a new show the following day, to magically turn kids with no academic interest into little Einsteins. The pressure is constant and wildly unreasonable, and I am beginning to really hate the job. But yeah... the pay is not the problem. The cost of living in Los Angeles is a bit of a problem, but... (sigh)
eg....the "poor"....the "poor" in this country make out pretty dang well considering their SS, and perhaps for all their family members, their food stamps, their free health care, housing, bus passes, etc....there was a report a couple of weeks ago that actually not working and just collecting gives a person as good a life as someone working full time but low paying jobs..
please please move.....reed springs mo. just built a new school. nixa mo and ozark mo. have great school systems....even springfield mo has a good school system
My cousin was a teacher in Ohio near Sandusky, Ohio and had a Masters degree and taught for 38 public and 5 Catholic. She retired two years ago. She said she gets 85% of pay and guaranteed 3% COLA raises for life. She was making 100K when she retired at 65. She works 8-11am M-F at a school teaching reading and makes $35.00 an hour.