Posted on 06/06/2005 4:33:44 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
...But this noble sensibility ignores a crucial fact about the teaching profession in Westchester County: Teacher pay levels in Scarsdale, and several other districts in the county, are now high enough to constitute an entry ticket to upper-middle-class income and status. In Scarsdale, 166 teachers - nearly half - have base salaries exceeding $100,000; for more than a dozen, base pay tops $120,000.
A study of teacher salaries across New York State found that as administrators and affluent parents compete to give their children every possible advantage, thousands of teachers in the New York suburbs now make six-figure salaries - numbers strongly at variance with the popular stereotype of the poorly paid, altruistic mentor of the young.
The study indicates that only the most experienced teachers, with the most education, earn such salaries - which are the highest in the nation. But the money is arguably substantial enough to affect what it means to be a public school teacher. Consider this, for instance: A family whose parents both teach in Westchester schools can make enough to put it in the top 6 percent of earners in the county.
Teachers say the salaries are justified, even necessary, in a place where the cost of living is high. "You can earn $100,000 and not afford to live here," said Susan Taylor, a longtime Scarsdale teacher who heads the district's teacher training institute...
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Why do they not talk about management salaries in NYC.
6-figure salaries, eh? Boy, do I teach in the wrong state.
?.....9-Figure Salaries? To Many Teachers, a Matter of Course......keep those 'presses' running?
I meant borad of ED management (and NEA.) You have never seen plusher bunch of teachers than the NYC NEA crowd.
I'm changing jobs
The average teacher salary in our high school district is over $80,000.
And they just put a $30 million tax hike on the ballot.
The administrator of our K-12 district is pulling in $300k a year, too.
No poor teachers in the neighborhood.
Our district starts new teachers (fresh out of college) around 40K. Not bad for 185 days a year. However, a good teacher puts in more hours in a day and more days in a year and they are worth every penny. I just wish we could get rid of the bad ones and reward the good ones.
The NYC school system is broken beyond repair, at least beyond the repair of idiots like Klein and the pinkos that run the system here. A great many of the head honchos in the whole education "nomenklatur" send their kids to private schools.
teachers are not critical....
we could go days and weeks and months and even years without teachers...
life would go on.
nurses...doctors....policemane...fireman....these people are not only important, but ESSENTIAL...
take away them for a day or two and everything would shut down in a hurry....people would die...families devastated...anarchy abounding.........
so where is my $100,000????
"$30 million tax hike..." - that's the way I read this article.
Public schools consume 75% of local property tax revenue. For those districts, mainly rural or disadvantaged, that cannot afford competent school systems, the courts are forcing the states to pay.
Privatize the schools, then. I am all for the elimination of property taxes, which are little more than rent to the government. And while we are at it, we can privatize NASA. Which party do I vote for to get all of that done?
Try the Sierra Club.
My home town. I graduated Scarsdale High School in the 60s.
Apropos of nothing.
Two questions... A)What county do you live in? B)Are they looking for a History teacher?
lol, well we're here in Cook County in the suburbs of Chicago.
Good teachers deserve to make a pretty penny. Their work is of tremendous importance.
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