That’s average. OK’s is $46k average. This isn’t about overpaid or underpaid, OK is losing teachers to other states like Texas that pays $10k minimum more. Just like our national government, OK legislators are lining their pockets and their special interest groups.
Sure are a lot of “conservatives” on here trashing OK teachers and their efforts to make more money. Especially freepers with NO understanding of what today’s teachers put up with. Teachers now have classrooms of 35-40 students, including special needs. And they work more than 6 hours a day.
Looks like capitalism and democracy at work to me. The governor is free to fire them all. And they are free to protest the mismanagement of OK budget. Money that could be going to our schools. FYI, OK doesn’t have lefty teachers pushing the libtard agenda. Most are pretty conservative and voted for Trump.
Bad “facts”. And let ‘ em go — feel free the move on down the road, teachers ! My kid has 26 in her room. Never at school more than TWO weeks without a holiday or Late Start, until April - now Walk Out ! Y’all knew the salary before signing Contract to teach. I studies education, too - cuz I liked the hours, holidays off with my kids, summers free, benefits.
Overpaid administrators gobble up too much money, and the system is antiquated - my kid learns more at home on her cell phone than in the classroom.
Excuse me... I live close enough to Tulsa to be aware of a few things...
Like for example who the number one mouthpiece for the local teacher's union is... I just happen to know who...
A dude named M**k who hails originally from Chicago, not Tulsa or anywhere else in Oklahoma.
M**k drives an older gray F150 around his neighborhood that ALWAYS is sporting a pro-0bama or anti-Trump sign in the back window. ALWAYS. Very reliable Martians have told me this. For example: "Obama 2012, Michelle 2016 2020, Malia 2024 2028, Sasha 2032 2036", and more recently, "Trump sold us out to **" where ** is a hammer and sickle signifying obviously... You know...
M**k takes advantage of his morbid obesity by getting a handicap sticker for his truck, so he can park up front at his favorite breakfast place located at the NE corner of 61st and Sheridan, where he's been noticed, on weekdays, loading up on the biscuits and sausage gravy, as he sits and pontificates to his pals about the latest evils of all things conservative and/or Republican.
Who would one suppose it is who would be putting M**k in the position he's in, in the local teacher's union?
And that doesn't even open the subject of TPS's superintendent, who isn't an Oklahoman either... like for starters, aren't there some schools named "Lee", and "Chouteau", and a couple of others that are about to be renamed on politically correct grounds?
M**k is from Chicago, and where is D*****h from? Rhode Island or someplace, isn't she?
This is all about Democrats helping Democrats, and getting Drew Edmondson elected Governor in November, and all the teachers are all in with it. Otherwise some of them would be grateful for the $6100/yr raise they just got and would be crossing the picket line to do their jobs.
Oh... union... picket line... Chicago...
Maybe I better not say no more in case M**k knows who I am...