Based on the 31,000 average STARTING pay in OK and 180 days of required days in school, the STARTING pay is $172.22 per day. Assuming an 8 hr day, STARTING pay is 21.53 per hour.
Based on 52 weeks, STARTING pay is $596.15 per week or 14.90 per hour (40 hr week).
I thought those who are advocating for a minimum wage of $15.00 because people need a living wage would be happy since the STARTING pay is pretty close to it based on 52 week basis.
OK has taken taxes from home owners to pay for schools, where did that money go?
OK passed the lottery with the promise most would go to the schools, where did that money go?
OK has passed many school funding bills over the years, where did that money go?
OK schools get federal grants, where did that money go?
Instead of buying each student a laptop computer, maybe the money should be used to build more classrooms with desks. Pencil and paper were fine back in my day.
The money is going to pensions and health bennies.
The teachers I talk to don’t work 8 hour days. 12 hour days is typical for those who are conscientious about grading homework and doing lesson plans.
Add in student help hours after school, mandatory supervision of a student activity, parent meetings, staff meeting, mandatory continuing education hours, and the insane individualized lesson plans and targets for each student.
Yes, there are teachers who are sitting pretty after twenty years. lesson plans settled and the salary maxing out, and teachers who put in minimum effort at reading and grading student work.
But I have never talked to a teacher who did 8 hour days 9 months a year. The male teachers do things like pool management and yard work during the summer to make ends meet for their families.
Just an aside to your commentary......a few years ago, LA Unified School District decided that every child should have an IPad. No surprise to those of us who can think, over 50% of those iPads went ‘missing’ in the first few weeks of the program. I haven’t read any follow-ups on that story, but I suspect those IPads stayed ‘in the wind’.
They are only working August through May. Part time work=part time pay!